Ace your planning without the context-switching

This post introduces GitLab Duo Planner, a new AI agent built on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform. It focuses on orchestrating product planning workflows, reducing overhead, and improving alignment and predictability. The agent leverages work items (epics, issues, tasks) and understands work breakdown structures, dependency analysis, and effort estimation. It offers six specific flows: prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW, WSJF), work breakdown, dependency analysis, planning, status reporting, and backlog management. The post demonstrates its usage through examples of checking initiative status and generating executive summaries, highlighting its availability as a custom agent in the Duo Chat side panel.