Version 5
5.4.0
📅 August 2024
Enhancements to the Prioritisation screen now allow you to add notes to each Feature. You can now lock a Feature to the top of the screen so you can easily refer to it when prioritising your backlog.
Ideas in the Think Tank can now be quickly converted to Initiatives or Features.
As always ... a number of fixes to recently identified bugs.
5.3.0
📅 August 2024
New Feature View in VS Kanban where you can see every feature in a Value Stream.
Updates to Product Kanban and Feature Kanban - Removed deprecated sorting options and added Programme and Increment sorts. Initiative Name is now shown on Features card.
Brand new Operational Portfolio Screen showing Portfolio Initiatives on a Kanban and a breakdown of all Initiatives across Value Streams. Portfolio states are configurable.
Initiatives can now be marked as Portfolio Initiatives and assigned to multiple Value Streams
Various bug fixes
5.2.0
📅 July 2024
Brand new ideation capability. User request submission form that populates a central Think Tank and allows Product teams to review and prioritise potential ideas and convert to work items.
Ability to mark Value Streams as Inactive.
5.1.0
📅 July 2024
Brand new Value Stream Kanban where you can see your Initiatives in a Kanban board as well as a breakdown of each of your features by status for each Value Stream.
A new Initiative Breakdown screen shows you a breakdown of all features by status, per Initiative.
Define your own Initiative states and re-order them as necessary.
5.0.0
📅 May 2024
Brand spanking new OKR functionality.
Ability to associate owners to dependencies.
Manually rank Initiatives using drag & drop
Access the Initiative view directly from the Value Stream dashboard.
Version 4
4.9.0
📅January 2024
Better support for features spanning multiple increments.
Better support for features worked on by multiple teams.
Enhancements to the way deferred scope is handled.
New tooltip with enhanced info and messaging.
Multi-select in team dropdown in all screens where you could previously only filter one team at any given time.
Increment/overall scope information in Detailed Delivery view.
More detailed story metrics in Milestone list.
4.8.0
📅November 2023
Brand new Initiative View dashboard, offering the ability to see a detailed breakdown of individual Initiatives.
Updated Initiative list - Now featuring filters for RAG statuses and Target Realisation/Estimated Completion dates.
4.7.0
📅October 2023
Brand new Product Themes entity, allowing the ability to categorise Initiatives and/or Features.
New Product Themes filter added to all Product Screens and Value Stream dashboard.
4.6.0
📅September 2023
Updated value stream dashboard with expected date metrics
A new field to specify the planned start date of a feature
A new team filter on the roadmap view
4.5.0
📅 July 2023
Dependency audit information displayed in Dependency details drawer
Filter by Initiative on Delivery Dashboard
Story Points / Story Count toggle on Delivery Detailed view
Kanban teams : ability to specify default throughput per team in story points / story count
Kanban teams : visual indicator of Kanban/Scrum teams on Delivery Summary view
Initiatives: new fields for Wiki link, business outcome and leading indicator
Minor bug fixes
4.4.0
📅 June 2023
Brand spanking new Value Stream dashboard, showing a timeline of all your initiatives and where/when they are being delivered.
New search option in Prioritisation screen .
Improvements to bulk import from Jira and Azure DevOps.
Various bug fixes.
4.3.0
📅 March 2023
New owner fields, export functionality and the ability to open feature details in the Prioritisation screen.
A new Projection/Forecasting functionality on Product Roadmap.
Toggling between velocity based on number/size of features delivered in Product Roadmap.
bug fixes
4.2.0
📅January 2023
Cross-program dependencies on Delivery Summary View
Drag and Drop functionality on Summary and Detailed View for Increment planning
4.1.0
📅January 2023
Styling improvements in Product Kanban
Horizontal scrolling in Product Kanban for smaller screens
Send individual Feature to Azure Devops
4.0.0
📅November 2022
Value Streams and Programmes
Initiatives
OKRs
Multi-PI Dashboard
Several enhancements to Summary and Detailed Delivery views
Batch import Features from JIRA and Azure DevOps
Rich Text in Feature Description
New Navigation, new grids
New colour schemes for dashboards and reports
Version 3
3.2.0
📅March 2022
Product Feature roadmaps!
WSJF prioritisation helper
3.1.0
📅February 2022
Real-time updates on Product and Delivery views
Azure DevOps integration fully operational
Redesigned Feature Details drawer
Stories list in Feature Details
Brand spanking new Dark theme
Product Ideation - validation of required information when moving between statuses, with visual notification if missing.
Product Ideation - additional sorting options on Analysis and backlog columns
Delivery views - incomplete features in past Sprints marked red
Minor bug fixes
3.0.0
📅November 2021
Brand new look and feel
Launch of Ideation functionality
New Delivery section with major improvements
New Delivery dashboard
Dedicated Reporting section
Various bug fixing and minor improvements.
Version 2
2.1.0
PI status displayed for current PI
Backlog filter on Program Board
Backlog filter on Feature Board dashboard
Sprint filter in Feature Progression dashboard
Link to new Support Centre, including release notes
Warning given if unsaved changes when exiting PI settings screen