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Pan Mode & New Utilities
You’ll find the Utilities menu in the lower-right corner, making key board functions like adding sticky notes, scaling, zooming, and the new Pan Mode easier to access. With Pan Mode, effortlessly navigate your board using the hand icon or by holding the spacebar and dragging. Selecting multiple sticky notes is now smoother, too. Plus, the Plan vs. Execution switch is now right next to your profile for quicker toggling.
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Updated Permissions for PI-Admin Role in ARTs and Solution Trains
PI-Admins can now be assigned to specific ARTs and Solution Trains (STs), extending their permissions to manage teams, ARTs, and STs based on their assignments. This change enhances control over visibility and editing capabilities in the RTE Cockpit. Important: When a user’s role is modified, the system retains their ART/ST associations but adjusts permissions accordingly. Please be aware that this is a breaking change, and further guidance on managing these new permissions will be provided in our documentation.
Automatic Logout After Inactivity
Helping organizsations meet compliance needs, admins can optionally adjust an inactivity timeout in the cockpit settings after which users get automatically logged out. This functionality detects mouse and keyboard activity, ensuring that only active sessions remain logged in.
Sticky Linking and Search Capabilities
You can now link any sticky note to another within the same PI session, allowing for better cross-team and cross-ART (Agile Release Train) collaboration. Easily link stories within or across teams, as well as to features in other ARTs, with an improved UI that includes team and type filtering plus full-text search for streamlined navigation.
Enhance ART Backlog Board synch filtering by more fields
ART backlog issues in Jira can now be filtered by additional field types beyond labels, these are FixVersion, Component, Single-select (customfield), and Multi-select (customfield). This does simplify your configuration and providing greater flexibility in synchronizing your ART backlog.
Map Microsoft Azure AD Groups to Teams with OIDC
You can now setup your team by mapping Microsoft Azure AD groups directly to teams using OIDC. This feature allows for efficient team management and synchronization with your organization's AD structure, making user and team onboarding quicker and more consistent.
Board Activity Comparison for Sticky Notes
Easily track changes on sticky notes with the new Board Activity Compare feature. Compare any two points in time—such as Now vs. Last Workday, Now vs. Start of Iteration, or Now vs. Start of PI—to view updates on attributes and actions taken on each sticky note, providing clear insights into recent activity and progress.
Enhanced SSO-Only Mode and Login Flexibility
We’ve updated the login behavior for environments with SSO enabled. When SSO-only is active, username and password options are hidden, and user management is streamlined, allowing admins to add users via team assignments but removing password reset options. When SSO is off, login fields for username and password, password resets, and user invitations via email are available, offering greater flexibility in user management.
Assignee Field on Sticky Notes with Jira & Rally Sync
A new "Assignee" field on sticky notes now allows you to assign users directly within the app. The assignee syncs seamlessly with Jira and Rally, displaying user IDs and enabling easy edits. This update enhances collaboration by linking ALM user assignments to piplanning.io.
Support for ADO XML Process Templates
piplanning.io now supports Azure DevOps (ADO) instances (on-prem) using XML process templates, enabling seamless bidirectional sync of work item statuses. By refining the integration to exclude unused properties like custom rules, this update improves compatibility with XML process templates while maintaining clear logging of any API errors due to custom rules for admin visibility in ALM Events.
User Data Export for Compliance
Admins can now export a comprehensive list of all users within their company as an XLSX or CSV file. The export includes user details such as ID, email, name, role, teams, last login, and SSO linkage, supporting compliance needs with easy access to user data.
Accessibility Compliance Update: 508 & WCAG Level AA
piplanning.io is now fully compliant with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards! This update ensures an improved experience for all users, including those with disabilities, by enhancing keyboard navigation, screen reader support, color contrast, and more.
Enhanced Team and ART Navigation
Navigating between Teams and ARTs is now simpler with the new ART selector on team boards and a Team selector on ART and Solution Boards. Additionally, when you leave an ART and return, you’ll automatically rejoin as the same team you left, making it easier to pick up where you left off.
Support for New Parent-Child Link Type in Jira
piplanning.io now fully supports Jira's new "parent/child" link type, allowing admins to configure this standardized way of linking Features, User Stories, and other work items. This update streamlines project setup, enhances linking in the RTE Cockpit, and ensures a smooth experience for customers using the Jira Integration.
Jira Assignees Synced to piplanning.io Sticky Notes
Now, when you sync sticky notes from Jira to piplanning.io, the assignee information is automatically transferred. This ensures that every team member can see at a glance who is responsible for each task, facilitating better coordination and accountability across your Agile Release Train. Enjoy a more connected planning experience.
Enhanced Session Duplication Options
Prepare New PI: Retain the original PI configuration while updating teams, iteration names, and mappings. Duplicate This PI: Create a copy of the PI with the option to update team compositions, typically used when teams change before PI Planning begins.
Mirror Dependency to Solution Planning Board
Efficiently manage cross-ART dependencies with the ability to mirror them onto the Solution Planning Board. When a team faces dependencies with another team in a different ART, reflecting these dependencies at the solution level ensures clear visibility and facilitates easy tracking across multiple ARTs.
New Plan Readout Functionality
In Draft or Final Plan Readout, you can review the key planning outputs (PI Objectives, capacity and load, risks) easily in a new dedicated space. It offers quick access and aids in the tight timebox. Moreover it allows Business Owners to assign Business Value for Objectives.
Enhanced Objective Management
Experience enhanced objective management with the option to toggle full descriptions on or off, providing a cleaner view. Additionally, expand associated sticky notes for a structured, organized overview. Easily monitor Objective status by referencing linked sticky note statuses.
New PI Admin Role
Within this new role, known as the PI Admin, individuals are granted access to the RTE Cockpit. They assume the responsibility of managing teams within their ART and Solution Trains, including the ability to add new team members. Moreover, they are entrusted with overseeing PI sessions in which they are actively involved as part of their Teams.
Pin to Keep The Sticky Notes Highlighting
Now you can keep highlighting the sticky notes that are linked together by pinning them. This function will keep the visual representation of the strings between the sticky notes for as long as you need it. When you're done, simply click on the pin or press escape to remove it.
Character Limitations in Title and Unlimited Description for Objectives
We have made an update that limits the character count for objective titles to 130 characters, providing more concise and focused titles. There is no limit to the description length, allowing users to provide more detailed information about the objective.
Improved ART PI Objectives
The ART PI Objectives are now separated into two sides, ART PI Objectives and Team Objectives. This provides better visibility and transparency to the Team Objectives that are aligned with achieving the ART Objectives. With both objectives displayed side by side, it is easy to track progress and see how Team Objectives contribute to the overall ART Objectives.
Enlarging Sticky Notes from Search Results
You can easily access and scale up the important sticky notes directly from the search results. Simply click on a sticky note in the search results and the corresponding note on the board will instantly scale up, providing a clearer and more detailed view.
Program Metrics are on top of the Program Board
You can now view Program Metrics accessing from the Program Board located on the top left menu. This feature enables you to monitor and track of your whole PI, including Capacity Allocation and Load Vs. Capacity status. This new capability offers more transparency and visibility into the whole Program's status making it easier to identify potential issues and take corrective action.
Improved Iteration Header Design on Team Board
The new design is more user-friendly and visually appealing, displaying important information such as the iteration start and end dates, capacity and load, access to team metrics along with the progress status of the iteration in a clear and concise manner.
Track Program Progress by Iterations and Teams on Program Board
You can easily track the status of your program and identify any potential issues that need to be addressed. By clicking on “Progress” on the top left menu, the progress bar will appear by Iterations and Teams. By hovering over the bar you can get more detailed information on their progress and identify areas that may need additional attention.
Team Objectives Progress Tracking
This new update makes it easy to monitor the progress of your Team Objectives and identify any potential roadblocks. Simply opening the Team Objective window, the progress bar is displayed by default. By hovering over the progress bar, you can see more details.
Dependency Progress Tracking
This feature makes it easy to stay up-to-date with the status of dependencies and ensures that everyone is aware of any potential delays or roadblocks. To access it, simply click on the "Progress" button in the top left corner of the board. A progress bar appears at the bottom of the dependency sticky note, indicating the completion status of any related tasks. By hovering over the progress bar, you can see more details.
See Incoming, Outgoing, and Mutual Dependencies with New Filter
This new filter allows you to easily track the dependencies between different teams. This filter allows you to identify incoming, outgoing and mutual dependencies. The filter provides a clear and easy-to-understand visual overview of all dependencies that makes it easier for the team to plan and coordinate their work, ensuring that everyone is aware of any dependencies.
Searching for Sticky Notes by Iterations
With this feature, you can easily search for specific sticky notes associated with a particular iteration. This makes it easier to keep track of tasks and see what is in progress or has yet to start. This makes it easy to identify potential backlog areas in your team.
Search between linkable items
When you want to link a sticky note to an item and you click on "Link" on the sticky notes, you can search now among the linkable items. In the search bar, start typing the word you are looking for to filter the list. To make the items appear even neater, the sticky notes and Objectives are placed on two separate tabs.
Select multiple sticky notes
Select multiple sticky notes and take action on them at a time. It is a great help when you're working with tons of sticky notes, right? As soon as more than one sticky is selected you can move them to another position, align them vertically or horizontally, or link them to sticky notes or team objectives. Brilliant, isn’t it?
Link multiple sticky notes to Objectives
A handy solution is to link sticky notes to Team Objectives that help to achieve the specific Objective. Instead of linking each sticky note to the Objectives one by one, you can do it all at once thanks to the multiple sticky note selection function. Then click on the Objective to see the associated notes highlighted.
Share filtered search results
If you want to talk through certain sticky notes, be specific by sending your team members which sticky notes you are talking about. You can do this simply. For instance filter out sticky notes with a pending status that belongs to your Scrum Master. Copy the link of the search result from the URL bar and send it to the Scrum Master. Now he/she can see the exact sticky note you want to point to.
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Improved ALM troubleshooting
Lately, we added additional tools to help you to troubleshoot ALM connectivity issues. This allows you to narrow down the problem with your stuck Jira or ADO sync faster than ever before. We highlight connection issues for each PI Planning session and provide a detailed log for each ALM connection.
Sticky note functions
Sticky notes can have different functions in PI Planning. Therefore, in piplanning.io they have properties corresponding to the function. From now on, sticky notes with a work item function can also indicate the status of the task, which can be: to do, in progress, or done. In the case of those with note functions, we can make simple notes without unnecessary functions.
Timer on boards
The built-in timer helps you with timeboxing. You can configure it for the whole ART that will be visible on all boards. Or you can also set an individual timer for a specific Team Board. You can always see what time is still left. Pause or reset if it's needed. When the time is up, the alarm will sound for those to whom it is addressed.
