How we use GitLab to automate our monthly retrospectives

This post details the automation of monthly retrospective issue creation and updating using GitLab's scheduled pipelines and API. It describes using scheduled pipelines to create issues on the 1st of the month and update them on the 9th with lists of shipped and slipped issues. The automation uses the GitLab API with protected variables and quick actions for labels and due dates. The project 'async-retrospectives' is shared as an example of how this automation can be configured and adopted by other teams.