How the GitLab UX team uses epics

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This post details how the GitLab UX team adopted and utilized epics for planning and tracking UX efforts. It explains the concept of epics at GitLab as a collection of issues with a shared theme, enabling efficient management of a portfolio of projects. The team developed a UX strategy template to define challenges, vision, focus areas, mission, activities, and success metrics for epics. The merge request page was used as a case study, demonstrating how existing issues were matched to research findings and organized within an epic. Future enhancements like sub-epics, labeling, discussions, project-level epics, and integration with roadmaps are also mentioned.