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GOPEN - group.one Operations for Product Engineering#

Welcome to GOPEN - group.one Operations for Product Engineering - your comprehensive guide to how we build, deliver, and maintain software products at group.one.

What is This Handbook?#

Engineering and Tech are complex; there are many possible ways of working, approaches and standards out there. This handbook captures how we do product engineering at group.one, in the CPO organization: our team organization, ways of working and best practices.

There is so much to know to craft software that having a reference can greatly help to address questions such as "How should we do this?", "Has anyone experienced this before?". This handbook should be a go-to for any engineering teammate facing those questions and looking for already-experienced solutions within the company.

This is an ever-evolving document. Every best practice can be challenged and refined as we learn. Every document describes the best approach someone found to address issues they encountered - but contexts change, and better approaches emerge. We're doing our best, and you can help by challenging and contributing.

This handbook serves multiple purposes:

  • Standardization: Establish consistent practices across all engineering teams within group.one
  • Knowledge Sharing: Capture institutional knowledge and make it accessible to everyone
  • Onboarding: Help new team members understand how we work and what we value
  • Transparency: Share our practices openly with the broader engineering community
  • Continuous Improvement: Provide a living document that evolves as we learn and grow

Who is This For?#

Primary audience: group.one CPO WordPress organization, especially Product & Engineering teammates to document how we work.

External readers: While this handbook may contain valuable takeaways for other engineers, it is opinionated and does not try to reflect the perfect state-of-the-art of engineering. It reflects our specific context and choices.

This is not a tutorial to become an engineer - it's a guide to how engineering works at group.one.

What's Inside#

Ways of Working#

How we organize as teams, collaborate, and execute on projects.

Technical Standards#

Our technical guidelines, best practices, and coding standards.

About#

Learn more about group.one, our values, and how to contribute to this handbook.

New to group.one?

Start by exploring our Ways of Working to understand how we collaborate and deliver, then dive into the Technical Standards for your primary language.