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Decision Kit
Decision Kit
Zoho Sprints Summary
Zoho Sprints is a planning and tracking tool for agile teams. Launched in October 2017, the tool brings task management, Kanban boards, epics, and other features to enable teams to organize and track their work.
Feature Comparison
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Issue Weights
GitLab lets you manage issues using Agile practices by setting the weight of an issue. |
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Milestones
Create and manage milestones at both the project and group levels, viewing all the issues for the milestone you’re currently working on, representing an Agile program increment or a release. |
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Iterations
Create and manage iterations at the group level, view all the issues for the iteration you’re currently working on within your group or project, and enable all subgroups and projects to stay in sync on the same cadence. |
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Issue Due Dates
In GitLab, you can set a due date for individual issues. This is very convenient if you have small tasks with a specific deadline. |
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Assignee
Assign a user to an issue or a merge request, indicating responsibility for it. |
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Multiple Issue Assignees
Assign more than one person to an issue at a time. |
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Issue Dependencies
Explicitly mark issues as blocked and blocking and track their status. Blocked issues are visible in the issue card view for easy identification. |
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Related Issues
Mark issues as related to one another. |
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Move Issue to Another Project
You can move issues between projects in GitLab. All links, history and comments will be copied and the original issue will reference the newly moved issue. This makes working with multiple issue trackers much easier. |
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Burnup Charts
With Milestone and Iteration Burnup Charts, you can better understand scope change during a sprint or while working on a new version of your software. |
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Burndown Charts
GitLab provides Burndown Charts as part of Milestones and Iterations. This allows users to better track progress during a sprint or while working on a new version of their software. |
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Todos
When a user is mentioned in or assigned to an issue or merge request it will be included in the user Todos, making the development workflow faster and easier to track. |
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Hill Chart Status reporting
Hill charts make it simple to report the general status of a work item, issue, or project. Where before the top of the hill, the item is full of uncertainty and unknowns, and after the crest of the hill, execution is clear sailing with fewer risks and unknowns. |
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Track Time Spent
Update and track the time spent on an issue or merge request. |
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Track Estimated Time Required
Update and track the estimated time required on an issue or merge request. |
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Advanced Time Tracking
Able to capture individual time reporting for specific assigned tasks and then to allocate labor costs to the appropriate project. Specific features would include: estimate, actual, cost, reporting. |
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DevOps Pipeline
Able to establish visibility into the end to end DevOps pipeline so the entire team is aware of pipeline status and can contribute to overall success. Specific features would include: visibility into status of pipeline |
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Portfolio Planning
Establishing strategic priorities and direction in order to govern the allocation of corporate resources to support specific business/IT initiatives. Strategic planning evaluates in-flight projects and proposed future initiatives to shape and govern the ongoing investment in projects and discretionary work. Able to model and optimize different portfolio investment scenarios to determine the ideal funding combinations to meet strategic priorities. Specific features would include: Proposals, epics, backlog, strategic alignment, estimation, prioritization, what-if, monte-carlo simulation, optimization. |
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Scrum
Able to support the time-boxed (sprint) approach of the Agile -Scrum software delivery. Specific features would include: Issues, scrum boards, burndown charts, burn up. |
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Kanban
Able to support the flow based approach of Agile - Kanban software delivery. Specific features would include: Issues, Kanban boards, burn up, cumulative flow diagram. |
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SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) - Essential SAFe
Able to support the key principles and practices of the Essential SAFe configuration., Agile Release Train, (a combined CD pipeline where multiple projects align to release), Planning Increment (PI) Planning (cadence driven project planning/ vision) |
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SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) - Lean Portfolio Management
Provides support for the key elements of Lean Portfolio Management. Specific features would include: Release Train, Lean Portfolio Management. |
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Out-of-the-box Agile Reporting
Teams have access to more than a dozen out-of-the-box reports with real-time, actionable insights into how their team is performing sprint over sprint. Example reports are sprint burndown, epic burndown, cumulative flow diagram, velocity chart, burn up chart, and sprint report. |
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Product Roadmap
Establishing the product vision and strategy to organize, govern and shape the effort of the multi-disciplinary team building specific business services. The Product Roadmap is based on specific business goals and objectives, manages high level requirements, prioritizes future features, allocates resources, tracks progress and measures business results linked to the business strategy. Specific features would include: Product Strategy, Idea Gathering, Requirements Management, Resource Management, Feedback Collection, Milestone Tracking, Release Management, Workflow Management, Feature Tracking/Deviation, Roadmap Analytics, Centralized Notes, Report Generation, Imports, API/SDK, Conflict Management, and Customized Alerting. |
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Portfolio Management
Plan and track work at the project and portfolio level. Manage capacity and resources together with Portfolio Management. |
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Allow edits from upstream maintainers in a fork
When a user opens a merge request from a fork, they are given the option to allow upstream maintainers to collaborate with them on the source branch. This allows the maintainers of the upstream project to make small fixes or rebase branches before merging, reducing the back and forth of accepting community contributions. |
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Application performance monitoring
GitLab collects and displays performance metrics for deployed apps, leveraging Prometheus. Developers can determine the impact of a merge and keep an eye on their production systems, without leaving GitLab. |
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Application performance alerts
GitLab allows engineers to seamlessly create service level indicator alerts and be notified of any desired events, all within the same workflow where they write their code. |
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