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| Stage | Plan |
| Maturity | Viable |
| Content Last Reviewed | 2023-02-03 |
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GitLab's vision is to provide Portfolio Management tools for DevOps that help our customers manage a portfolio of work and determine which opportunities have higher ROI when making strategic business planning decisions.
Enterprises work on complex initiatives that cut across multiple teams and departments, often spanning months, quarters, and even years. We support organizing initiatives into multi-level work breakdown plans. We enable organizations to track efforts in flight and plan upcoming work to best utilize their resources and focus on the right priorities.
GitLab supports popular enterprise Agile portfolio and project management frameworks, including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, and Kanban.
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| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Portfolio financial management | Visibility and insight into funding capacity rather than projects. Instead of determining how much it will cost to achieve the next two milestones, managers determine how much capacity is required to deliver a consistent flow of value. |
| Portfolio level planning | Identifying which programs to invest in, and how much. Portfolios are largely trying to figure out what initiative to fund, based on when the previous one is scheduled to finish. |
| Program level planning | Breaking large deliverables into chunks that make sense for each team and coordinating the teams' work. Programs need to worry about dependencies and coordination. |
| Enterprise agile framework (including SAFe) | SAFe support includes the processes, roles, and artifacts that enable scaling across teams, and the ability to plan and track work and assess economic benefits using at a minimum Portfolio SAFe in SAFe v. 5.0. EAP tools may support multiple enterprise agile frameworks commonly used in the industry. |
| Forecasting | A forecast is a calculation about the future completion of an item or items that includes both a date range and a probability. Forecasts take the progress to date of all of the programs, then make forward-looking predictions. |
| Dependency management | Dependencies are the relationships between work that determine the order in which the work items (features, stories, tasks) must be completed by Agile teams. Dependency management is the process of actively analyzing, measuring, and working to minimize the disruption caused by intra-team and / or cross-team dependencies. |
| Roadmapping | Roadmaps are the glue that link strategy to tactics. They provide all stakeholders with a view of the current, near-term, and longer-term deliverables that realize some portion of the Portfolio Vision and Strategic Themes. © Scaled Agile, Inc. |
| End-to-end visibility to the value stream | This capability indicates the tool’s ability to show the progress of software throughout the value stream from ideation through to production realization of the customer and business value. |
| Collaboration | Collaboration tools have the highest value for distributed organizations. These tools can range from virtual boards and team rooms to threaded conversations or advanced, work-item-context chat tools. |
Once epics are migrated to work items, we will shift our focus to Enterprise Agile Planning tools as found in this epic. The first iniatives on the roadmap include improving GitLab's roadmap experience and exploring saved views and queries.
| Area of focus | GitLab | Digital.ai | Planview | Jira Align |
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| Portfolio financial management | ⬜️ | 🟨 | 🟩 | 🟨 |
| Portfolio level planning | ⬜️ | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟨 |
| Program level planning | ⬜️ | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟩 |
| Enterprise agile framework (including SAFe) | 🟨 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 |
| Forecasting | ⬜️ | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟩 |
| Dependency management | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟩 |
| Roadmapping | 🟨 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟩 |
| End to end visibility to the value stream | 🟨 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟩 |
| Collaboration | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟩 |