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A Brief Sidenote: This is written in the format of an internal press release describing the finished state of Project Management functionality at the end of the corresponding period. It is subject to change based on feedback from internal stakeholders and the wider community. It's goal is to act as a compass as we continue to build and deliver value in an iterative and incremental manner.
Rant no more. There’s finally a set of unified planning tools that empower modern agile teams to continuously deliver value.
66% of enterprise software projects have overruns. Our robust planning and project management tools provide unparalleled capabilities to help teams break down silos, maintain alignment, and collaborate effectively to release value driven software on time and on budget. No integrations required.
Let’s be honest. The state of project management software is underwhelming. The market is littered with fragmented, overly complicated project management tools that are slow, cumbersome, and prioritize enforced workflows over facilitating meaningful collaboration. Most are not organized around how teams actually prefer to plan and track work; and require advanced configuration and numerous integrations with third-party services before they can provide the level of traceability and compliance that enterprises require. Up until this point, we were also contributing to this problem.
GitLab now has first class support for the majority of agile methodologies; enabling cross-functional teams to collaborate in real time and make tangible progress towards mastering agile fluency while simultaneously releasing great software – all within the industry leading unified DevOps platform. Instead of relying on static charts and reports to help teams make better commitments, we’ve gone a step further to surface meaningful actions and insights directly within the appropriate collaborative contexts so teams can stay aligned and make better decisions without breaking flow. Team level projects seamlessly roll up into the portfolio level, providing visibility, meaningful reporting, and transparency across the entire organization. We’ve made our planning tools highly extensible to support each team’s unique needs, yet extremely simple to adopt by leveraging popular conventions so your team can begin planning their next release with just a few clicks.
“Our planning toolkit is the culmination of hundreds of conversations with our customers, years of hard work, and thousands of contributions from the wider community. We still have a long way to go to achieve how we envision teams collaborating within GitLab, but our customers are reporting dramatic improvements in being able to ship customer and business value on time and on budget, which is a strong indicator that we’re on the right track.” – Gabe Weaver @ Senior Product Manager @ GitLab
If you’re already using GitLab, then getting started is as simple as using Issues and Issue Boards. If you’re migrating from another project management tool like Jira, we’ve got you covered with a robust set of importers to help make the switch a breeze.
“I was a little hesitant about using GitLab for project management, but after witnessing my development teams stage a walk-out to convince upper management that saying goodbye to JIRA was long overdue, I realized just how far GitLab has come.” – Executive @ Enterprise
We’re on a mission to make it easy for everyone to contribute. Want to learn more about our planning tools and if they’ll be a good fit for your team’s needs? Checkout the FAQ below or reach out to start a discussion.
Absolutely. Here is a rough outline of how the planning toolset has evolved:
Remember the first time you ever opened a Google Doc and saw a bunch of people typing at the same time? Anyone viewing the same issue that has the proper authorization can simultaneously work on the description. If an issue moves lists on an Issue Board, you’ll immediately see that change reflected without needing to refresh the page. Pretty awesome right?
There are lots of different ways that teams organize and manage their work. Methodologies like Scrum and ExtremeProgramming use timeboxes as anchors to manage sprints and iterations. At the end of each timebox, they reflect on the work they’ve completed and use metrics like velocity and volatility to help make informed decisions on what to commit to for the next timebox.
Other popular methodologies like Kanban leverage a continuous flow model and use concepts like work in progress limits, lead time, and cycle time to measure effectiveness and efficiency of the development process.
Issue Boards now have first class support for these types of methodologies, including special modes for quicky refining issues and prioritizing your backlog. Additionally, there are a wide variety of critical reports integrated directly with Issue Boards such as improved burndown charts, historical velocity and volatility, and cumulative flow diagrams among many others. =
It’s still in its infancy, but the long term vision is to allow you to configure advanced workflow automations based on where an Issue or Merge Request is in its lifecycle. For now, you’re able to define customizable stages that map to the lifecycle of important artifacts within GitLab like Issues and Merge Requests. Instead of manually dragging Issues from one list to another within an Issue Board, you can define conditions that will automatically advance an Issue to the next step in your workflow.
A series of labels can now be grouped together into a set. The set has a name. There are some system level label sets like “Issue Type” that you cannot delete, but you can also create as many label sets as you want. Label sets are included on Issues and Merge Requests, but show up as distinct fields and are not clustered with other labels. Label sets can be configured to allow only one label value to be applied at a given time (like how scoped labels works now), multiple label values, priority order, directional order, and several additional options. We may also just add straight up custom fields at some point ;)
Startups are fast paced and in order to get traction, sometimes you have to carry a bit of technical debt for a while. A year ago, our frontend architecture was a cobbled together mess of Vue, HAML/HTML, and jQuery. As the defect rate and response times increased, we knew It was time to pay the bank, so we refactored the majority of the frontend to follow consistent patterns based on a reusable component library we built called Pajamas. We also transitioned to exclusively using our shiny new GraphQL API. These are a few of the things, that when combined, provided for opened the door for new ways to act with core artifacts within GitLab in a much more intuitive way.
Absolutely. We also made some improvements that allow you to have more control over how email notifications work. While we don’t want to force you to change your workflow, context switching is a productivity killer. That’s why we designed our unified notifications and tasks dashboard to help you facilitate meaningful communications, interact with issues as necessary, and provide a way for you to prioritize all of the things you need to get done across your projects. We’re pretty sure that once you give it a try, you won’t want to go back to using email ever again ;)