The GitLab Handbook
Before we begin thinking about how to put together a handbook for ourselves, let’s get some inspiration from a company that has made its own handbook the central pillar of how it operates. Not only is it written and updated extensively by everyone who works there—including the founder and executive team—at the time of writing, it’s a staggering 13,804 pages of text, increasing every year. And it’s all available on the Internet. Yep, pretty much all of the company’s workings are completely transparent. How’s that for a radical idea?
Let’s get some background on the company first. GitLab provides a DevOps platform that enables product, development, security, and operations teams to work together concurrently.[67] It’s delivered ...
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