This paper discusses the management scheme of GitLab Company.

Introduction GitLab is a powerful open source code hosting platform, which integrates many functions such as code hosting, CI/CD, issue tracking and communication, and is used by more and more fashion IT companies. However, it is equally important that GitLab is not just a simple technical project. GitLab also needs a perfect management scheme to ensure its efficient operation.

In this article, we will discuss the management scheme of GitLab Company. We will cover the following four aspects:

GitLab's corporate culture GitLab's management form GitLab's organizational structure GitLab's operational strategy GitLab's corporate culture GitLab is an open source company, and its products are also based on the open source concept. Under such a cultural background, GitLab company respects employees' autonomy and freedom, and encourages employees to give full play to their creativity and innovation ability spontaneously to create excellent products and services.

GitLab's corporate culture emphasizes openness, collaboration and shared peace. GitLab not only encourages interaction and cooperation among employees, but also actively supports interaction with the community. GitLab's working atmosphere is full of energy and passion, which fully embodies the characteristics of doing what you like, doing it in your own way, fully respecting team members, paying attention to communication and creating a positive working atmosphere.

The management form of GitLab Company is in GitLab Company, and the management mode also fully embodies the characteristics of open source culture. GitLab company advocates a civilian management model, encourages employees to manage their own fields independently, and minimizes their dependence and intervention on middle and senior leaders. For example, GitLab abandoned the traditional model that employees were divided into different levels of management, and adopted a flat management model, which respected the direct and independent cooperation and communication among employees and reduced the communication cost at the management level.

GitLab also actively promotes the global and distributed working mode, encourages telecommuting, reduces process and communication costs, and gradually establishes a remote collaboration culture.

The organizational structure of GitLab is also in line with the characteristics of open source culture. GitLab's organizational structure is very clear, which is divided into the following departments: open source project contribution, engineering research and development, human resources, marketing, legal affairs, finance and so on. Each department has corresponding functions and roles, and has clear leadership and hierarchical structure.

GitLab also actively encourages employees to participate in technical discussions and decisions through spontaneous architecture weeks, so as to give full play to employees' creativity and performance.

GitLab company's operation strategy GitLab company's operation strategy includes product strategy, sales strategy and marketing strategy. Among them, product strategy is the core of GitLab company's operation.

GitLab attaches great importance to user experience and product quality, is committed to providing high-quality products and services that meet customer expectations, and constantly introduces new functions and services based on user needs. GitLab adopts agile development and rapid iteration to meet the needs of customers and market changes to the greatest extent.

In terms of sales and marketing, GitLab is also market-oriented and user-oriented, and adopts diversified channels such as community marketing, network promotion and industry conferences to promote products.

Summarizing GitLab's successful management scheme not only made GitLab highly recognized by the open source community, but also made GitLab a success and became a model worth learning. GitLab attaches importance to employee autonomy, encourages civilian management, advocates corporate culture of cooperation, openness, sharing and equality, and realizes the efficient operation of the company through clear organizational structure and market-oriented operation strategy.