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Using GitHub for GIST 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 GIST Planning, this makes GitHub a strong candidate for teams who want a structured, repeatable workflow without sacrificing flexibility. GIST Planning works best in GitHub when you leverage its backlog management to implement the framework's key practices directly in the tool your team already lives in.

About GIST Planning

GIST is a four-level planning framework — Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks — that replaces the commitment-based roadmap with an evidence-based pipeline of validated hypotheses.

•Goals (OKRs) drive everything; Ideas are hypotheses, not commitments

•Steps are short experiments that validate ideas before investment

•Most ideas are wrong — test before building, not after

•Tasks are daily work managed in sprints or Kanban within the current step

Which GitHub features matter for GIST Planning

GitHub has 1 of 2 core GIST Planning features natively.

Feature	Why it matters for GIST Planning	GitHub
Backlog Management	Refined backlog for sprint planning input	✓
Okr Tracking	OKR hierarchy, check-ins, and progress tracking	✗
Roadmapping	Strategic planning and PI/initiative mapping	✓
Custom Fields	Tracking methodology-specific metadata	✓
Idea Management	Divergent ideation and opportunity management	✗

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