GitLab Project & Portfolio Management

GitLab Project & Portfolio Management helps you manage development as a process: from daily team tasks to large product or portfolio-level initiatives. Instead of disparate trackers and tables, you get a single space linked to code and releases, where planning and execution don’t “live separately” from development.

At the team level, you manage tasks, set priorities, form sprints/iterations, and track status through boards. At the portfolio level, you group work into epics, build timelines, and visualize strategic progress on roadmaps. This approach helps align expectations across teams and see dependencies before they become blockers.

It is especially useful to use work management together with GitLab SCM and GitLab CI/CD: tasks are linked to merge requests and releases, which increases transparency and speeds up decision-making.

Key features

• Issues and statuses: task setting, prioritization, and progress tracking.
• Boards: visual workflow management (Kanban approach).
• Iterations: planning sprints and working in cycles.
• Milestones: grouping tasks and MRs by releases or time periods.
• Epics: combining tasks into large initiatives and monitoring at the product level.
• Roadmaps: timeline for epics/milestones and strategic visualization.
• Connection to development: linking tasks to MRs, transparency of “plan → code → release.”
• Dependency management: better understanding of blockers and points of agreement.