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Written by BigAgile Support
Updated over 5 months ago

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

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