featuresharbor

FeaturesHarbor is an open-source platform designed to catalog, compare, and explore software features across products and teams. It provides a centralized registry for feature definitions, attributes, and relationships to aid in planning, development, and quality assurance. The project emphasizes consistency, discoverability, and governance in feature management.

Its core features include a feature registry with versioning, descriptive metadata (name, description, domain, impact, and readiness state), tagging and categorization, and powerful search and filtering. It offers an API for programmatic access, import and export of feature data, and integrations with issue trackers and CI/CD tools. The platform supports workflow governance with review and approval steps, role-based access, and audit logs, as well as visualization of dependencies and release timelines.

Architecturally, FeaturesHarbor is a modular web application with a registry database, a REST or GraphQL API, and a user interface. Features are modeled as records with multiple versions and linked relationships to epics, releases, and related features. The system supports pluggable data adapters for importing data and connecting external systems, and can be deployed as self-hosted software or a cloud service.

Development and governance are maintained by an open community, with a permissive license and contribution guidelines. Releases progress through versioned updates, typically following semantic versioning. A core team coordinates feature definitions, security updates, and compatibility guarantees, while community contributors can propose enhancements and integrations.

Organizations use FeaturesHarbor to improve traceability of capabilities across products, align roadmaps, and accelerate cross-team collaboration by having a single source of truth for feature definitions and status.

See also: feature management, product management tools, software catalog