The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q2 2025
Planview received the highest scores possible in the common data model and management, third party tool integration, analytics, and vision criteria.
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Value Stream Management

Measure and manage software development efficiency

Planview’s AI-powered value stream management solution enables CIOs and Transformation Leaders to align technology and the business with the right metrics and automated workflows to enable more effective enterprise digital transformation.

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Why Planview?

Improve predictability, visibility, and efficiency with AI-powered value stream management software

Delivering the best software at speed and scale requires cutting edge tools. Planview’s value stream management software gives CIOs, transformation executives, and product and engineering leaders unprecedented insights through end-to-end data supported by conversational AI and agentic workflows that are tailored to your data and policies. Our solution combines enterprise-grade flexibility with real-time intelligence to provide complete visibility into your value streams so you can align software delivery with company strategy.

Planview’s cross-system work discovery uncovers insights across multiple tools and systems, identifies exactly where slowdowns happen, and recommends specific actions to drive improvement. Intelligent workload capacity analysis ensures your teams’ delivery velocity aligns with current demands, while automated health reporting provides early warning of potential risks. This comprehensive approach helps you accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs, and create a data-driven culture that attracts and retains top talent.

Improve time to market and predictability

Meet customer and market needs by leveraging AI-powered insights that help you learn faster than competitors. AI analyzes real-time data across systems to deliver actionable flow performance insights and intelligent workload capacity recommendations, ensuring your teams and resources are optimally aligned to market demands.

Streamline software development to unlock capacity

Improve productivity, efficiency, and employee engagement through AI-powered workload analysis and cross-system work discovery. Proactively identify bottlenecks in minutes, not days, predict capacity constraints, and maintain healthy team workloads by analyzing flow patterns across your value streams.

Stay modern and compliant by addressing debt and risk

Ensure innovation by paying down technical debt and simplifying governance across your portfolio.

Planview’s value stream management solution helps overcome 6 common obstacles to software delivery success:

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Disconnected end-to-end delivery processes

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Rework and wasted effort caused by poor communication and error-prone manual processes

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Poor visibility into bottlenecks and dependencies

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Lack of alignment between technology and business leaders

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Unpredictable delivery that impacts financial performance and customer satisfaction

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Innovation stifled by technical debt and poor quality

See Planview in action

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  • Grow revenue through faster delivery
  • Improve productivity without increasing costs or headcount
  • Connect complex toolchains to automate handoffs and eliminate manual work
  • Reduce waste by connecting software delivery to strategy
  • Accelerate innovation with smarter decisions and informed tradeoffs
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Planview is a leader

You can count on Planview to drive value stream management innovation and deliver an exceptional solution. But don’t just take our word for it. See what industry analysts have to say.

Named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q2 2025.

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Named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2022 GigaOM Radar for Value Stream Management.

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Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Value Stream Management and Agile Project and Portfolio Management 2023-2024 Vendor Assessment.

Named a Technology Leader in the Quadrant SPARK Matrix™: Value Stream Management (VSM), 2023.

Planview is a trusted technology partner

We’ve helped organizations like yours realize the benefits of value stream management. See how.

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Take a quick solution tour

The Planview Platform for Connected Work is the foundation for solutions spanning a breadth of use cases.

  • Take action to optimize your delivery

    Put the meaning in your metrics

    Value Stream Management Solution Screen
    Make teams more productive and efficient with targeted insights.

    Get precise recommendations for enhancing your value streams. Intuitive widgets highlight the insights you need to improve workflow efficiency and stability. Leverage data to identify the hidden bottlenecks in your processes and suggest precise next steps for improvement. Pinpoint inefficiencies and receive customized, actionable next steps that will drive efficiency and stability in your software delivery processes.

    • Higher productivity, less waste: Identify and manage work-in-progress (WIP) to ensure a predictable flow of value. Analyze aging work and understand at-a-glance its impact on team capacity and delivery time.
    • Clear, specific guidance: Take immediate action directly from Flow Optimizer to reduce delays and improve process stability.
    • Translate insights to action: Enhance predictability and streamline your product value streams using the power of data-driven decision-making.
    • Built-in best practices: Ensure all work is visible and value streams are modeled consistently to keep teams aligned and contributing to your business objectives.
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  • Planview.Me® PLATFORM EXPERIENCE

    Redefine how work gets done

    Planview.me Platform Interface
    Break down organizational data silos with comprehensive visibility across your strategy, planning, and delivery data. Redefine how work gets done with personalized views that highlight insights, performance, and potential risks.

    Engage in a visually immersive, easy-to-use, streamlined Planview Platform user experience, tailored to you and the information you need to see.

    • Create unique views based on status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases needed to pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate
    • Bring data and insight transparency into all decisions and to all decision-makers within your organization
    • Power-up your productivity with the ability to action, investigate, respond, and react from a single screen and with a single click
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  • Business Agility Metrics

    Improve market response and predictability

    Portfolio Insights Dashboard
    Dashboards for leaders who oversee multiple products, product lines, or entire departments help make data-based decisions that directly impact speed and agility.

    IT, group, and portfolio-level dashboards help executives and leaders identify systemic issues, drive improvements, and sustain transformation momentum.

    • Maximize ROI. Value diminishes as work waits. Insights into efficiency and aging help focus the organization on getting the right work done, fast.
    • Inform tradeoffs with capacity insights. Agility can only be reached if delivery teams are not overutilized. Use data-driven capacity insights to set priorities and make more effective tradeoffs.
    • Improve decision-making. Strike the right balance between innovation and long-term sustainability with product management insights.
    • Embed good practices. Our dashboards codify good lean-agile practices. Leaders and teams are alerted when value streams are becoming unhealthy so they can become proactive in solving problems.
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  • Business And Technology Alignment

    Track flow to business outcomes

    Flow Metrics Dashboard
    With Flow Metrics dashboards for end-to-end value streams, get visibility into the flow of work and its impact on business outcome.

    Flow Metrics create a common language to connect technology and the business. Start using these board-ready, simple, and consistent metrics to measure value delivery. Benefit from leading indicators into the impact of your transformation.

    • Measure value from idea to outcome. Un-silo data to see where improvements and resources can drive better outcomes for your customers.
    • Become data-driven. Track the impact of events, experiments, and resources on results to course-correct quickly and make smarter future investments.
    • Correlate performance with results. Look at the system as a whole, all in one place. Track flow alongside outcomes from Financial, Operations, Customer Experience, OKR, and HR systems.
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  • Efficiency and Cost Reduction

    Identify bottlenecks and dependencies

    Bottleneck Finder
    Live value stream visualization and Bottleneck Finder help identify precisely where and why work is getting stuck.

    Optimizing anywhere outside the system’s bottleneck is counter-productive. Bottleneck Finder traces work through all its steps and clearly visualizes where things are getting stuck.

    • Visualize and tackle constraints. See where work is piling up and aging and focus your resources where it will make a difference.
    • Reduce the rework and unplanned work. See at a glance when quality is deteriorating and get to the root cause by examining the source of the underlying defects.
    • Understand and mitigate dependencies. Find out where process or product dependencies are slowing down delivery, and proactively take action to avoid missed commitments.
    • Safely experiment to see results. Flow Metrics reflect the effectiveness of your improvement efforts. If it’s working, double down. If it’s not helping, try something else.
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Value stream management (VSM) software capabilities

  • Capture Flow Metrics for products and portfolios.

    • Planview.Me

      Engage in a visually immersive, AI-powered platform experience that delivers actionable insights across your value streams. Create unique views based on status, progress, and delivery performance to pinpoint where to focus. Leverage Planview Anvi to identify risks and opportunities early. Then, take action, investigate, and respond with a single click inside a unified, personalized view.

    • Flow Metrics Dashboards

      Consistently measure speed and efficiency across your IT portfolio with AI-powered analytics. Embedded generative AI parses millions of data points quickly and accurately to uncover hidden problems and interpret trends. Connect your existing tools and data sources while deploying agentic workflows specific to your company. Our field-proven Flow Framework® combines with real-time intelligence to deliver auto-rendered value stream maps and insights that speak your organization’s language.

    • Value Stream Analytics

      Go beyond metrics with AI-driven insights based on your data, overlaid with Planview’s expertise. Understand root causes through customizable AI agents that analyze performance at both macro and micro levels, delivering on demand context-based feedback and suggested next steps.

    • Portfolio Insights

      Identify emerging risks and opportunities through real-time AI analysis that intelligently processes data across multiple value streams simultaneously. Planview Anvi analyzes patterns and relationships across your entire portfolio–not just individual streams–providing holistic recommendations based on your complete value stream data.

    • Bottleneck Identification

      Pinpoint bottlenecks and waste with Planview Anvi’s AI-powered cross-system work discovery. Deploy custom AI agents to proactively identify constraints, while real-time intelligence suggests precise solutions to keep initiatives on track.

  • Align business and technology with joint accountability to business outcomes.

    • Un-Silo Decision Making

      Optimize end-to-end software development with intelligent cross-system work discovery and flow performance analysis. Our AI aggregates real-time data across teams, providing intelligent insights and predictive modeling that breaks down organizational barriers.

    • Business-Aligned Insights

      Leverage AI-powered analysis to predict business outcomes and track OKR progress in real-time. Our intelligent agents correlate cross-system data to reveal efficiency patterns and deliver actionable insights about value delivery in your organization’s context, ensuring strategy stays aligned with execution.

    • Product Management Guardrails

      Sustain products throughout their life cycle. Get alerts when distribution of Features, Defects, Debts or Risks are inadequate to prevent the ‘product death spiral’.

    • Talent Retention

      Create a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Empower teams with a rapid feedback loop that allows safe experimentation and incremental change.

  • Create an end-to-end control plane to scale best practices and governance.

    • Software Delivery Optimization

      Scale best practices and governance across heterogenous tools and processes. Map value streams and visualize people, processes, and platforms.

    • Value-Centric Practices

      Embed and enforce lean-agile practices with an AI advisor that understands your organization’s unique policies and procedures. Upload your own documents and guidelines to train Planview’s AI to deliver personalized recommendations across delivery streams, while providing contextual guidance that accelerates adoption.

    • Automate Traceability

      Automate traceability across the software delivery supply chain to ease governance. Let Planview value stream management software insert cross-tool traceability links for smoother audits.

    • Smart Modeling

      Easily account for hybrid ways of working. Intuitive no-code modeling coupled with smart automations map varying semantics to the industry gold-standard.

  • Heterogeneous tool integration and management.

    • Tech Stack Interoperability

      60+ out-of-the-box integrations allow you to maximize specialists’ productivity while eliminating duplicate data entry and manual overhead.

    • Common Data Model

      Capture, normalize, and maintain process data over time across the entire software development and delivery toolchain.

    • Rapid Scaling

      Reuse and extend integrations to hundreds of projects without additional effort. Model-based integration makes integrations 4x faster to set up and 10x easier to maintain.

    • Data Integrity

      Ensure clean, accurate and up-to-date data in your systems. Automatically cascade changes, updates, comments and attachments to all affected parties.

    • Your Toolchain, Your Way

      Develop connectors at your own pace to bridge data silos between out-of-the-box integrations and in-house or specialized solutions.

  • Make smarter, more confident decisions with Planview Anvi

    • Find the Needle in the Haystack

      Planview Anvi extracts insights from thousands of data points to support quick decisions about risk, delivery speed, and capacity.

    • Boost Productivity

      Use generative AI to find the hidden bottlenecks that slow down value delivery and get real-time, specific recommendations to address them.

    • Make Your Teams Experts

      Boost teams’ confidence with a conversational interface that recommends actions based on best practices gleaned from thousands of customers and data from 60+ tools across our integration ecosystem.

    • Simplify Decision Making

      Planview Anvi connects data across your value streams and offers concise, quick advice on how to align strategy with execution.

    • Unlock Help On-Demand

      Unlock assistance when you need it with AI Help. Transform your Planview Platform experience with the AI Help in-app interface, providing plain text answers to your questions. Access thousands of pages of customer success center help articles and other product- or solution-specific documentation without ever leaving your screen.

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Planview’s AI-driven connected platform of solutions underpins the business and digital transformations of more than 3,000 customers and 3.1 million users globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Planview has over 1,500 employees worldwide.