>>> GitLab Accelerate

Your GitLab programme. Finally moving.

GitLab Professional Services Select Partner

OTTRA embeds experienced GitLab consultants inside your teams — sprint by sprint — to deliver the outcomes your organisation needs. Migrations. Security scanning. Compliance. CI/CD standardisation. We work until it’s done, then we leave.

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Most GitLab adoption programmes don’t fail because the platform isn’t good enough. They stall because the teams are busy, the expertise isn’t there, and nobody is dedicated to driving it forward.

Licences paid for. Adoption at zero.
Teams still working the way they always have
Security scanning enabled in settings. Configured nowhere.
Migration started. Never finished.
Audit deadline approaching. Compliance not achieved.

Sound familiar? That’s exactly what Accelerate is designed to fix.

A client situation

500 engineers. 30 teams. Licences paid for. Nobody migrated.

A large UK infrastructure organisation had standardised on GitLab Ultimate. The platform was there, the licences were paid for, and the mandate had come from the top — all teams were moving to GitLab, with full security scanning embedded across every codebase.

Months later, the programme had stalled. Thirty teams, five hundred engineers — and not a single successful migration to show for it. The organisation knew what needed to happen. It just wasn’t happening.

OTTRA was brought in to change that.

Working team by team in structured three-month sprints, OTTRA deployed a consultant to understand how each team was working today, plan their migration into GitLab, and deliver it — with security scanning embedded from day one. No theoretical recommendations. No handover documents that gathered dust. Actual delivery, inside the teams, until each one was done.

Six months. Thirty teams. Five hundred engineers. Every codebase scanned. Full compliance and audit capability achieved across the organisation. A programme that had been going nowhere was complete.

— Programme Lead, Large UK Infrastructure Organisation

The result

500 Engineers successfully migrated

Thirty teams delivered in six months — every codebase scanned, full compliance and audit capability achieved.

30 Teams delivered in six months

Zero previously completed migrations before OTTRA was brought in.

Dedicated resource

The right number of people for the engagement — one consultant or several, full-time or part-time. Scoped to what your programme actually needs, not a fixed package.

Sprint-based delivery

Structured sprints with clear milestones. Progress your organisation can see, not effort it has to trust. Each sprint ends with something delivered, not something planned.

Milestone-led outcomes

Migrations completed. Security scanning embedded. CI/CD standardised. Compliance and audit capability achieved. Accelerate is measured by outcomes, not time spent.

Clean handover

When the engagement ends, your teams own what was built. Documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover are part of every sprint — not an afterthought at the end.

Start with clarity

If you haven’t already done a GitLab Health Check, that’s the natural starting point. It establishes where you are today, what’s blocking adoption, and what the engagement needs to deliver. If you already know what you need, we can scope Accelerate directly.

Scope the engagement

Every Accelerate engagement is bespoke. We agree the milestones, the team structure, the sprint cadence, and the definition of done before work begins. No surprises on scope or cost.

Embed and deliver

OTTRA consultants work inside your teams — not alongside them. We understand how each team works today, plan the change with them, and deliver it. Security scanning, migrations, CI/CD standardisation, compliance — whatever the milestone, we deliver it as a done thing.

Hand over and leave

When the engagement is complete, we leave. Your teams have everything they need to own and maintain what was built. That’s the goal from day one.

Your programme has the right platform. It needs the right people.

OTTRA has delivered GitLab adoption programmes for organisations with hundreds of engineers and dozens of teams. If your programme has stalled — or you want to make sure it doesn’t — let’s talk.

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