👋🏻 On our SaaS (Cloud) platform we have CI/CD (Continuous Delivery) practices, so all new features that are ready for release are pushed to the live production environment.
For On-Premise deployments, all new functionality will be available in the next version of the On-Premise deployments, which is generally on a quarterly release schedule.
Current piplanning.io Cloud Releases
New: Team and ART Metrics: Dependencies Sankey Chart
New: Confidence Vote
Updated: Users with the Observer Role can now participate in Confidence Votes.
Updated: Ability to prepare Confidence Votes in advance of the PI Event and save as Drafts.
Updated: Ability to Delete Confidence Votes if needed due to duplicates etc.
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.
v2.20.0 Changelog
Enhanced Board Mechanics: navigation, utilities, sticky note toolbar
Select with mouse drag
Pan with two-finger / middle mouse
Sticky note arrangements: Board Settings > Sticky Settings
See Keyboard Shortcuts
?See Board Settings > Input Devices
Cmd+.
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.
v2.19.0 Changelog
New: Search sticky notes on the Boards by Reporter / Creator
New: Board History / log
ART Backlog Board > Kanban Board (
K)Team Boards > Execution Mode > Iterations > Iteration x Kanban (
K)
Enhanced: Support for Atlassian Jira Data Center native Team field.
For ART Mapping or Team Mapping > Team fields (optional) setting.
Architecture: Removal of
UnitsEnhanced: Top Navigation menu changes
Enhanced: Board navigation and mechanics like pan-mode and multi-select with drag.
v2.18.0 Changelog
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
v2.17.0 Changelog
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)
v2.16.0 Changelog
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.
v2.15.0 Changelog
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.
Sticky Note multi-select improvements: Copy & Paste, Arrange
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.
v2.14.0 Changelog
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