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Ask HN: Does your organization have a handbook?
GitLab has a handbook [1] which describes virtually all of their internal processes.
I wonder how many organizations use a similar approach.
I also wonder if anyone tried starting their handbook by just cloning parts of GitLab's handbook. Sharing processes between organizations would be interesting.
[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
- Kinrany 6y agoRecent discussion of GitLab's handbook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426616
- giantg2 6y agoI think a lot of companies use their intranet site as their handbook.
- Kinrany 6y agoMy previous company had a wiki for that. But it was very high-level and hard to navigate: you couldn't drop into a project, read the docs and start contributing. That company was not exactly representative, but I assume having comprehensive documentation that can be used for self-onboarding is rare.
- giantg2 6y agoYeah, the intranet site is more like a company handbook for HR and general policies (not that they follow them). The technical documents are a mess. Whe have 3 different systems that they might be in. I recently changed teams (and stacks) and there was no training, no real documentation, and just overall sucks.
- milquetoastaf 6y agoNah
- sqs 6y agoYes: https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook
- znq 6y agoYes! https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/ https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/ (free to download)
- 7373737373 6y agoI collected a few links here (mostly German): How institutions achieve independence from the individual https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/55 https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/55