IT Project Planning
Plans that know
your actual stack.
Forget the kickoff spreadsheet that's stale by week two. Panaptico reads your live environment first, then drafts a phased plan from what exists — with dependencies, blockers, and owners already wired in.
| # | Task | Owner | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Audit AWS accounts | Ravi | Q1-02 | tbd |
| 2 | Catalog Okta groups | Priya | Q1-02 | tbd |
| 3 | Inventory Databricks jobs | ? | ? | ? |
| 4 | Map Cisco VLANs | Ravi | Q1-03 | blocked |
| 5 | Draft migration plan | TBD | Q2-01 | tbd |
| 6 | Security review | ? | ? | ? |
3 owners missing · 2 blockers unexplained · last edit 47 days ago · built before the Cisco → Meraki migration
| Task | Source | Dep | Owner | Window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snapshot Okta groups (12,284) |  | — | IA | Wave 1 |
| Map app assignments (1,182) | | T1 | IA | Wave 1 |
| Diff vs Workday org tree |  | T2 | SA | Wave 1 |
| Resolve 84 ambiguous roles |  | T3 | Priya | Wave 2 |
| Provision Workday IdP trust | | T3 | IA | Wave 2 |
| Cutover pilot cohort (240) | | T5 | D. Park | Wave 3 |
The gap
Plans built on
remembered state.
Enterprise IT projects start with spreadsheets, Confluence pages, and kickoff decks that are outdated before the first task begins. Nobody verifies what actually exists. Dependencies are guessed. Timelines are fiction. When reality doesn't match the plan, teams scramble to replan mid-project with no single source of truth.
Workshop reality ≠ live state
The whiteboard from kickoff captures what people remember. The stack moved three sprints ago.
Dependencies are guessed
Who owns the Okta group? Which Databricks job reads from that RDS? The plan says 'TBD'.
Mid-project replanning
When a blocker surfaces in week six, the spreadsheet can't tell you what else it touches.
Live environment discovery
Plan from what's there, not what's remembered.
Before a single task is written, Panaptico reads across your stack — identity, infra, SaaS, CMDB, code. Every plan artifact inherits that ground truth.
AWS Organizations
14,208
resources
Okta
12,284
users · 1,182 apps
Databricks
412
jobs · 38 workspaces
ServiceNow CMDB
148,291
CIs
Cisco Meraki
1,840
devices · 84 sites
Jira
3,214
epics · 18 projects
CrowdStrike
11,248
endpoints
GitHub
842
repos · 218 teams
Intent-driven planning
Describe the outcome.
Get a phased rollout.
“Migrate all finance-domain identities from Okta to Workday-as-IdP by end of Q3. Keep SSO continuity. Phase by business unit criticality.”
Resolved scope
- 3,412 finance-domain users matched
- 184 apps in scope · 18 require re-federation
- 12 business units · criticality ranked
- 84 ambiguous role mappings flagged for review
- Snapshot Okta group tree (12,284 users)
- Establish Workday IdP trust
- Map 184 apps · flag 18 re-fed
- Resolve 84 ambiguous roles (ServiceNow)
- Cutover cohort A · 240 users · 3 BUs
- Monitor auth failures · 48h bake
- Cutover Finance Ops · 1,840 users
- Re-federate 18 flagged SAML apps
- Close orphaned Okta groups
- Migrate 1,332 remaining identities
- Deprecate legacy Okta IdP
- Archive audit evidence to Vault
Automatic dependency mapping
Dependencies drawn
from the stack itself.
Tasks inherit their dependencies from the graph — not from workshop memory. Blockers surface before you cut the kickoff deck. Critical path is computed, not negotiated.
Continuous plan updates
The plan edits itself
when the stack moves.
Every environment change is rechecked against the plan — scope, dependencies, owners, waves. The team reads the diff, not a rewritten spreadsheet.
42 new Okta users provisioned in finance — Wave 3 scope +42 users
Cisco → Meraki migration closed · 14 dependent tasks auto-unblocked
Workday SAML cert rotation posted — T5 re-sequenced before A3
84 ambiguous role mappings surfaced — blocker assigned to Priya
Databricks job 412 deprecated — removed from Wave 4 scope
Retire the kickoff spreadsheet.
Panaptico drafts the plan from the stack itself — then keeps it reconciled as the stack moves.