piplanning.io Changelog

New: Confidence Vote

New: Dependency Chains, which sync the Parent/Child sticky note work items connected via a Dependency sticky note, to the ALM tool.

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

Enhanced Board Mechanics: navigation, utilities, sticky note toolbar

Architecture improvements: Sticky loading related to enterprise scale deployments

Architecture improvements: Jira Webhook processing

Improved navigation for changing PI Sessions

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

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

Enhanced: Automatic mirroring of ART Backlog Board work items preassigned to Teams in ALM Tools.

New: Quick Filter on the Team Board to find Work Item sticky notes linked to Features owned/assigned to other Teams.

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

New: Breakdown Views

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

Enhanced: Progress Bar on PI Objectives and parent Features in Execution Mode

Support for the new Jira Cloud search/jql API

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: 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