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We use the term group to map down product requirements from our product stages.
As a team needs some way to collect the work their members are planning to be assigned to, we use the `~group::` labels to do so.
Normally there is a 1:1 relationship between Stage labels and Group labels. In the spirit of "Everyone can contribute",
any issue can be picked up by any group, depending on current priorities. For example, an issue labeled ~"devops::create" may be picked up by the ~"group::access" group.
Normally there is a 1:1 relationship between Stage labels and Group labels. In
the spirit of "Everyone can contribute", any issue can be picked up by any group,
depending on current priorities. When picking up an issue belonging to a different
group, it should be relabelled. For example, if an issue labelled ~"devops::create"
and ~"group::knowledge" is picked up by someone in the Access group of the Plan stage,
the issue should be relabelled as ~"group::access" while keeping the original
~"devops::create" unchanged.
We also use stage and group labels to help quantify our [throughput](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/management/throughput/).
Please read [Stage and Group labels in Throughtput](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/management/throughput/#stage-and-group-labels-in-throughput) for more information on how the labels are used in this context.