AMA: GitLab Director of Product Management, Fulfillment, Omar Eduardo Fernández on Stakeholder Management

In a nutshell: the product management function is tasked with clarifying and communicating what product investments that will help a company reach its goals, and working ...

Building partnerships across functions requires: Define a compelling shared goal. Define a clear and measurable goal that all functions involved would consider important ...

Providing feedback or managing the work of someone that doesn't report to you can be challenging, but ultimately doing that well is very similar to managing a direct repo...

Depends on the stakeholders' seniority and role in the initiative, but here's a few guidelines that I use, which I outline below. However, one important GitLab cultural p...

The question asks about getting approval, but I'll instead focus on how you gain feedback and improve your roadmap so that there's alignment around it. This distinction i...

GitLab is a fully remote company, we don't have any offices and have team members spread out throughout the world. The projects that my team work on are highly cross-func...

When senior executives disagree, you can help getting the situation unstuck by bringing in additional context, information, or factors to consider to the discussion. A fe...