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title: GitLab Product Manager Prompts
description: "Product manager prompts for GitLab MCP. Track epics and work items, manage milestones, monitor releases, organize with labels, and generate sprint and velocity reports with AI assistance."
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content: gitlab product manager, roadmap planning, epics, milestone tracking, release coordination, team velocity, sprint report
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# GitLab Product Manager Prompts
Work items, roadmap planning, milestone tracking, and release coordination.
## Project Overview
> "Show me all projects in the `my-org` group"
> "What's the current state of `my-org/api`?"
::: code-group
```json [Group projects]
{
"action": "list",
"group_id": "my-org",
"per_page": 50
}
```
```json [Project details]
{
"action": "get",
"project_id": "my-org/api"
}
```
:::
## Work Items & Epics
> "Show me all open epics in `my-org`"
> "List issues in the 'Authentication' epic"
> "Create a new epic for the Q2 roadmap"
::: code-group
```json [Group epics]
{
"action": "list",
"namespace": "my-org",
"state": ["OPEN"],
"types": ["EPIC"],
"first": 20,
"simple": true
}
```
```json [Create epic]
{
"action": "create",
"namespace": "my-org",
"workItemType": "EPIC",
"title": "Q2 2025: Platform Modernization",
"description": "## Objective\nModernize the platform infrastructure\n\n## Key Results\n- Migrate to microservices\n- Achieve 99.9% uptime\n- Reduce deploy time to <5min"
}
```
:::
## Milestone Roadmap
> "Show me all milestones in `my-org` with their progress"
> "What's the burndown for milestone 'v2.0'?"
> "Create a milestone for the Q2 release"
::: code-group
```json [Active milestones]
{
"action": "list",
"namespace": "my-org",
"state": "active",
"per_page": 20
}
```
```json [Milestone progress]
{
"action": "get",
"namespace": "my-org/api",
"milestone_id": "42"
}
```
```json [Create milestone]
{
"action": "create",
"namespace": "my-org",
"title": "Q2 2025 Release",
"description": "Platform modernization milestone",
"start_date": "2025-04-01",
"due_date": "2025-06-30"
}
```
:::
## Issue Tracking
> "How many open issues are there by priority?"
> "Show me issues blocking the release"
> "What's the breakdown of bug vs feature issues?"
::: code-group
```json [Open issues]
{
"action": "list",
"namespace": "my-org/api",
"state": ["OPEN"],
"types": ["ISSUE"],
"first": 50,
"simple": true
}
```
```json [Incidents]
{
"action": "list",
"namespace": "my-org/api",
"state": ["OPEN"],
"types": ["INCIDENT"],
"first": 20,
"simple": true
}
```
:::
## Release Tracking
> "Show me the latest releases across my projects"
> "What's included in the upcoming v2.0 release?"
> "Generate release notes from merged MRs"
::: code-group
```json [Latest releases]
{
"action": "list",
"project_id": "my-org/api",
"per_page": 5
}
```
```json [Release details]
{
"action": "get",
"project_id": "my-org/api",
"tag_name": "v1.5.0"
}
```
:::
## Labels for Organization
> "Create labels for our workflow: `status::planning`, `status::in-progress`, `status::review`"
> "List all labels in the group"
::: code-group
```json [Create workflow labels]
{
"action": "create",
"namespace": "my-org",
"name": "status::planning",
"color": "#428BCA",
"description": "In planning phase"
}
```
```json [Group labels]
{
"action": "list",
"namespace": "my-org",
"per_page": 50
}
```
:::
## Reporting Workflows
### Sprint Report
1. > "Show burndown data for the current milestone"
2. > "How many issues were completed vs added this sprint?"
3. > "List MRs merged in this milestone"
### Release Readiness
1. > "Are there open blockers for milestone 'v2.0'?"
2. > "What's the pipeline status on the release branch?"
3. > "Show unresolved discussions on open MRs targeting release"
### Team Velocity
1. > "How many issues were closed each week for the last month?"
2. > "What's the average time-to-merge for MRs?"
3. > "Show me completed vs planned work per sprint"
## Related
- [Sprint Planning](/prompts/project-management/sprint-planning) — Milestone management
- [Release Notes](/prompts/project-management/release-notes) — Release creation
- [Issue Triage](/prompts/project-management/issue-triage) — Issue organization
