## Overview This epic tracks issues related to the roadmap for the ~"group::optimize" categories - ~"Category:Value Stream Management" and ~"Category:DORA Metrics". ## Vision, Goals and Maturity plan <details><summary>Click to expand</summary> ### Vision GitLab will be the tool of choice for the data-driven DevOps organization — enabling teams and managers to understand all aspects of productivity, quality, security and delivery without any complex configurations or data scientists. ### Maturity plan #### Minimal Goal: Users can OOTB visualize and manage the DevOps flow from ideation to customer delivery and see how long items take at each stage. - Lead time and Cycle Time process excellence analytics [OPTIMIZE] - Customizable value streams for group-level [MAP] - Multiple value streams per group [MAP] #### Viable Goal: Users can view more metrics and historical trends to understand value stream performance within a chosen time period. - Fix date range filter [OPTIMIZE] - Overview dashboard shows key flow metrics [OPTIMIZE] - Label-based stages [MAP] - DORA metrics in VSA [MAP] - Stage time charts [LEARN] - Deep dive into the stage performance [OPTIMIZE] #### Complete Goal: Users have more access to stage-specific metrics and can monitor flow within value streams in real-time. Users can correlate value stream performance with business value metrics. Provide greater access to VSA feature with project-level parity. - Project-level parity - Integrations (e.g. Jira) [MAP] - Value stream settings [MAP] - Customize dashboard [OPTIMIZE] - Biz value metrics (e.g. correlating with traffic, revenue, costs, CSAT, adoption) [DELIVER] - Use value stream as GitLab analytics hub to deep dive into particular DevOps stages (e.g. code analytics, CI/CD analytics, plan analytics) [OPTIMIZE] - VSM Best Practices - Value stream Track OKRs [OPTIMIZE] - Value stream usage analytics [Evaluate] #### Lovable Goal: Users can map dependencies across different value streams to create organization value stream networks. Users can use a visual tool for configuring GitLab projects/groups/workspace and discovering new features that improve performance. - Value stream AI Recommendation [OPTIMIZE] - Value stream Autonomous mapping [MAP] - Value stream Predictability [OPTIMIZE] - Current items vs past items views [DELIVER] </details> ## Target Persona & jobs-to-be-done: <details><summary>Click to expand</summary> ### We are targeting the following personas (in priority order): 1. [Dakota (Application Development Director)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-marketing/roles-personas/#dakota-application-development-director) 1. [Erin (Application Development Executive)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-marketing/roles-personas/buyer-persona/#erin---the-application-development-executive-vp-etc) 1. [Delaney (Development Team Lead)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-marketing/roles-personas/#delaney-development-team-lead) 1. [Parker (Product Manager)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#parker-product-manager) ### JTBD **Learn:** When I am new to value stream practices; I want to learn what’s important, why it’s important, and how to use it, so that I can use the tool effectively and adapt to my organization’s needs. **Map:** When I am establishing practices to measure my value stream, I want to define the flow of work required to ship value to my end users so that we can visualize how efficiently and reliably value is delivered. **Deliver:** When I track my Value Stream I want to quickly understand the software delivery status so we can improve our performance in near real-time and enforce DevOps best practices and governance. **Optimize:** When I am optimizing my value stream, I want to identify opportunities for improvement, or detect risks in the delivery of value to customers. **Evaluate:** When evaluating my value stream, I want to link software delivery metrics to value metrics so that I can understand the value of the software workstream. Links to the direction pages - [Value Stream Management category](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/value_stream_management/) and [DORA category](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/plan/dora_metrics/). </details>