piplanning.io Changelog

New: Support for custom Story Point fields with the Jira ALM Connection. For example, use the Jira Original Estimate field or other custom fields for estimating work items.

Enhanced: Sticky Note Toolbar redefined to allow for compact design and multiple new options.

Enhanced: ALM User Mapping for synchronizing Reporter and Assignee fields in the Jira and Rally ALM Connection tools. Automate the ALM User Mapping if the Users email address matches in piplanning.io and Jira/Rally, and also allow for manual overrides. Generate reports to know what Users have a broken ALM User Mapping.

New: PI Details modal.

Alpha: AI Assistant Sightline to assist anyone become a super-communicator with plan analysis and governance.

Enhanced: External Org history is now available in the Audit logs.

Enhanced: ADO ALM Connection > Team assignment on ADO Backlog Board work items (Features). Teams derived from ADO Area Path in the ALM Connection > Team Mapping.

New: Organization Overview page to navigate organizational nodes and easily identify the Solution Train Admins, ART Admins and Team Admins and Team Members via badges on the User Profile.

Enhanced: User Export *.xlsx file includes explicit columns for each Solution Train, ART or Team (Lead) Admin. Plus some bug fixes.

Coming soon: Progress bar on Solution-level Backlog work items.

Promotion: Use the Home button to navigate easily across ST/ART/Team Boards at scale.

Early Access*: new ART PI Objective Board that gives holistic overview of ART and Team PI Objectives.

Early Access*: Visualize Board History. A visual replay how plans have changed and adapted to emergent, unplanned work and risks such as changes in capacity.

Early Access*: Breakdown Views Explorer - Graph, Board or Grid views (with configurable column and row dimensions).

New: In Planning badge added to PI Sessions in the PI Session Picker.

New: ART Backlog Board > Kanban Mapping to Jira Kanban Board for Jira ALM Connection. The ART Backlog Board > Kanban Board can now map to the columns on a Jira Kanban Board.

Enhanced: External Dependencies

Enhanced: Jira ALM Connection: ALM Connection > Team Mapping Error Alerts

New: Labels on Stickers - Codify your Working Agreements with Sticker Labels; Uplevel your ST/ART/Team collaboration, clarity and transparency.

New: Jira Cloud ALM Connection supports Service Accounts for authentication.

New: Highlight Completed Dependency sticky note strings

New: Different Color Dependency stickies for Blocked and Enabling Team

New: RTE Cockpit front-end upgrade

New: Team and ART Metrics: Dependencies Sankey chart

New: Team and ART Metrics: Flow Predictability chart

New: Team and ART Metrics: PI and Iteration Burndown chart

New: Confidence Vote

New: Dependency Chains; automatically sync the link between work item Sticky Notes, to the ALM tool, when these sticky notes are connected via a Dependency sticky note.

Enhanced: Granular Search on work item Status now allows for selecting individual statuses instead of the Status Categories/Class.

New: Jira Work Item Selector (Soft launch for Jira ALM Connection. ADO/Rally support coming soon). Dynamically find, plan and scheduled (via drag-and-drop) team-level work items from the backlog area in the ALM tool.

New: Detailed Status Metrics modal in Execution Mode (click the Progress bar). For Jira Customers see what work is in a Blocked state if you have a workflow status as `Blocked'.

New: Enhanced Team Board > Kanban Views that display the same Kanban states/column configuration from the ALM tools.

Updated: Redesigned Multi-Select Sticky Note Toolbar; Organize and Show Overview buttons +added.

New: Retrospective Canvases: Speed Car and Mountain canvases for retrospectives.

Infrastructure Update: RTE Cockpit frontend libraries upgraded to Vue3.

Updated: XLSX Download file includes updated columns on the Dependencies sheet, and updates to the data columns across the whole XLSX file.

Updated: Login and landing pages for piplanning.io to reflect the latest branding.

Enhanced: Filtering Team Board by PI Objectives, now directly linked sticky notes and indirectly linked child sticky notes are highlighted when filtering the Team Board by PI Objective.

Enhanced Board Mechanics: navigation, utilities, sticky note toolbar

Architecture: improvements to Sticky loading related to enterprise scale deployments

Architecture improvements: Jira Webhook processing

Improved navigation for changing between PI Sessions

New: External Orgs (Teams) / External Dependency Swimlane/s

Enhanced: CSV-Export now includes Team Iteration Load and Capacity metrics.

Enhanced: Automatic mirroring of ART Backlog Board work items preassigned to a Team in their respective ALM Tools.

New: Quick Filter on the Team Board to find Work Item sticky notes linked/not linked to parent Features owned/assigned to other Teams.

Architecture: minimum number of Teams [per ART] is now 1x (one).

New: Breakdown Views

New: RAG Indicator on PI (ART/Team) Objectives (in Execution Mode)

Enhanced: Progress Bar on PI Objectives, Dependency and parent Feature sticky notes in Execution Mode

Support for the new Jira Cloud search/jql API

Enhanced Sticky Note Toolbar with Show Overview, Align Horizontally, Distribute Horizontally, Align Vertically, Distribute Vertically, Line up in a grid, Stack, Link, Share, Remove, Undo buttons.

Enhanced PI Objectives Actual Value (AV) is only visible in Execution Mode: hide the Actual Value (AV) score in Plan Mode, and make it active only during Execution Mode when AV scores are collected.

New: Search sticky notes on the Boards by Reporter / Creator

New: Board History / log

New: Kanban Views / Boards:

Enhanced: Support for Atlassian Jira Data Center native Team field.

Architecture: Removal of Units

Enhanced: Top Navigation menu changes

Enhanced: Board navigation and mechanics like pan-mode and multi-select with drag.

Enhanced: CSV Export: Dependency sticky note Dependent On team field now part of the XLSX Download (data export)

New: Export User data to show Last Login Date

New: Ability to copy across Canvases from older PI Sessions to current PI Session. Supporting continuous reuse of important canvases supporting Business Context, Architectural Vision or Retrospectives etc.

New: Support for ADO XML Process Templates

New: Assignee field now synced to Jira and Rally

New: Strict SSO-only mode

New: Board History/Activity Logs

New: Map Entra-ID (Azure-AD) Groups to piplanning.io teams

New: ART Backlog Board sync, with Jira ALM Connection: now supports filtering the ART Backlog Board based on various Jira fields (Filter by Jira Fields) instead of just the Jira Label

Enhanced: Permission schema for users with role PI-Admin https://help.piplanning.io/en/articles/232887-pi-admin-role

Enhanced: Sticky Note Link Modal, allows linking to any other sticky type or PI Objectives via the updated Link Modal

New: RTE Cockpit > Settings for enforcing automatic logout after User inactivity

Accessibility / Section 508 compliance to make piplanning.io fully accessibly (Screen Reader, Keyboard Navigation, etc.)

Enhancement: Set an Assignee on sticky notes not synchronized to an ALM tool (i.e. Risks)

Support: Atlassian Jira Cloud native Team field for the ALM Mapping > ART or Team Mapping > Team field (optional).

Sticky Note Pro: improved sticky note UX and usability.

Accessibility: Improvements for keyboard navigation.

Enhancement: PI Admin Role can now Duplicate PI sessions in the RTE Cockpit. Plus use the XLSX Download option in the Action menu.

Improved: PI session Duplication to make it easier to Prepare a new PI.

Support: the new Atlassian Jira Cloud Parent-Link field (replacing the Epic-Link field) for Jira Cloud only.

Enhanced: Sync the Assignee on a Work Item sticky note (Jira and Rally ALM Connections only), in addition to the Reported By / Created By field.

Improved: Search, making it more intuitive.

Solution Train (Solution or Portfolio level) Boards: Backlog and Planning Boards for Solution Train/Portfolio level (multiple ARTs planning together)

Redesigned sticky note action Toolbar with various options.

Plan Readout modal: assists with Team Draft and Final Readouts.

Enhanced: PI Objectives Management

Simplified navigation to allow for easier switching between multi-Team and multiple ART Boards.

ALM User Mapping to allow for the synchronization of the Reporter/Created By fields in Jira and Rally.

New: Portugese translation

RTE Cockpit > Settings: Allow (optional) all Users to see all PI Sessions. Overriding the architectural constraint for Users to only see PI Sessions that their Team is apart of.

New: Sticky Note History, full audit log of all the updates during a sticky notes life cycle.

New Plan and Execution Modes

Improved ART PI Objectives

Improved Search Results navigation via enlarging selected Sticky Note on Board.

New: Grid-Align sticky notes with multi-select function

New: Current PI Timeline highlighting current date/time in reference to progress, in the PI Session.

New: View and search for Incoming, Outgoing, and Mutual Dependencies with new filters.

New: Dependency Progress Tracking

New: Search for Sticky Notes by Iterations

Synchronized team-field with Microsoft Azure DevOps