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Using GitHub for Discovery-Driven Planning

Dominant platform for source control and collaboration — used by 100M+ developers, making it the de facto standard for open-source and most commercial software teams. When combined with Discovery-Driven Planning, this makes GitHub a strong candidate for teams who want a structured, repeatable workflow without sacrificing flexibility. Discovery-Driven Planning works best in GitHub when you leverage its roadmapping, custom fields to implement the framework's key practices directly in the tool your team already lives in.

About Discovery-Driven Planning

Discovery-Driven Planning makes assumptions explicit, builds plans around testing them, and stages investment around validated milestones rather than activity completion.

•Start with a reverse income statement: what must be true for this to succeed?
•List every assumption the plan depends on and rank by impact and uncertainty
•Design milestone checkpoints around assumption validation, not activity completion
•Go/no-go decisions are made based on validated learning, not schedule progress

Which GitHub features matter for Discovery-Driven Planning

GitHub has 2 of 2 core Discovery-Driven Planning features natively.

FeatureWhy it matters for Discovery-Driven PlanningGitHub
RoadmappingStrategic planning and PI/initiative mapping✓
Custom FieldsTracking methodology-specific metadata✓
Analytics DashboardVelocity, throughput, and outcome measurement✓
Idea ManagementDivergent ideation and opportunity management✗
Reporting DashboardsSupports Discovery-Driven Planning workflow✗

GitHub at a glance

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