Releases

August 4th 2020
JULY CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in July 2020 for the Cloud piplanning app.
July 31st 2020
COLLABORATION CANVASES
For a long time we collected feedback and worked on it. Now they are finally here. We call them Collaboration Canvases. As the name suggests, these are interfaces that are flexible for all kinds of collaboration, be it retros, problem solving sessions, Scrum of Scrums, you name it. We already offer a wide range of backgrounds. If you are still missing one, let us know.
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July 20th 2020
ADJUSTABLE STICKY SIZE IN ITERATION OVERVIEW
In the sticky overview on the Team Board you can now adjust the size of the sticky just like the Objectives.
July 12th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.4
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
Release Notes Version 2.4
July 8th 2020
JUNE CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in June 2020 for the Cloud piplanning app.
June 28th 2020
LOCAL DATE FORMAT
The date format now adapts to the format based on the country setting you have in Chrome.
June 22th 2020
ADJUSTABLE YELLOW LOAD HIGHLIGHTING
Between blue, all is well and red, you have an overload you can now also set if it should highlight with a yellow background that you soon reach the capacity limit. In the settings you can put in at what percentage the highlighting should trigger.
June 18th 2020
ALWAYS SHOW THE LINKS ON TEAM BOARDS AND RISK BOARD
In the settings you can now set that the invisible links are always displayed on the Team Board and Program Risk Board.
June 12th 2020
DISPLAY HIGHLIGHTED LINKS OVER STICKIES
If you long-press on a sticky note it will show you the link above the grayed out sticky notes.
June 4th 2020
MAY CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in May 2020 for the Cloud piplanning app.
June 1th 2020
CAPACITY ALLOCATION
Our first step into the reporting field. Now you can find out on team level how much is planned for which area based on iterations or the whole team.
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May 20th 2020
SEARCH FOR STICKY TYPES AND TEAMS ON BOARDS
We did it again! We have again optimized the search a bit more. Now you can also search for assigned teams and sticky types.
May 19th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.3
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
Release Notes Version 2.3
May 14th 2020
HIGHLIGHT OF ACTIVE PI PLANNING SESSION
The PI Planning Sessions whose dates are current are highlighted in gray. The RTE sets this date in the RTE Cockpit. It usually corresponds to the first day on which PI Planning starts.
May 5th 2020
APRIL CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in April 2020 for the Cloud piplanning app.
April 28th 2020
SEARCH FOR STICKERS ON BOARDS
Finally it's here! Search for specific stickers like question marks, exclamation marks, dots, stars, check marks, etc. on the boards.
April 24th 2020
SYNC RALLY ITERATION BY ITERATION
With Rally sync you can now manually synchronize single iterations. So you don't have to stop and restart the whole sync from the RTE Cockpit. The teams can manage this themselves on team level.
April 18th 2020
RENAME VELOCITY TO CAPACITY
New is the Velocity on the boards Capacity.
April 15th 2020
HIDE SEARCH AND ARRANGE BUTTONS
Via the help window you can hide the buttons for board search and to sort the stickies on the board. With the shortcuts [control + A] you can turn "Arrange" on and off and when you press [/] on the keyboard the search will open.
April 10th 2020
SEARCH IN LINK WINDOW
In the link window to link a sticky to a Program Backlog Board sticky, just start typing and find the desired entry within seconds. Because now you have a Search available!
April 5th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.2
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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March 30th 2020
RIGHT CLICK MENU
From the new right click menu you can directly create new sticky notes, save a high resolution image of the board to your computer, depending on where you clicked you can also get an overview and last but not least you can sort the stickies in the current area.
March 25th 2020
ACTUAL BUSINESS VALUE
Among the Team Objectives there is now the possibility to add the actual business (AV) value.
March 17th 2020
ITERATION DATES ON TEAM BOARDS
Now you can also see directly on the Team Board in the iterations from when to when an iteration lasts. Directly under the iteration title you can find the from to date.
March 11th 2020
FONT SCALE ACTIVATED BY DEFAULT
The setting "Scale up sticky text font" is now always automatically activated. That means you can always read the boards comfortably.
March 2nd 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.1
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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February 28th 2020
STICKERS ON STICKY NOTES
Click in the upper left corner of the sticky note to add a sticker and give your sticky note more attention.
February 28th 2020
STICKY NOTE MAGNIFIER
Hold down the space bar and hover over sticky notes to magnify them. This gives you more options to be able to read what's on your boards.
February 18th 2020
OVERLOAD HIGHLIGHTING ON PROGRAM BOARD
By default it's now active that you can see on the Program Board which team has an overload in a certain iteration.
February 13th 2020
HELP BUTTON
Help button in the upper right corner of your screen shows you all the available short cuts and also a direct link to our video course.
February 6h 2020
SAFe 5.0 – Uncommitted
The piplanning app is now officially SAFe 5.0 compliant. The Stretch Objectives on the Team Boards are now changed to "Uncommitted".
February 5th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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January 23rd 2020
DEPENDENCY PATH ON PROGRAM BOARD
We added the information of the path a dependency took also to the sticky that is on the Program Board. No need to switch boards anymore to understand which teams initially talked to each other.
January 16th 2020
FULL TOUCHSCREEN SUPPORT
The new web-based piplanning app supports large touchscreens. Plan with your fingers!
January 8th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.9.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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December 22nd 2019
New Animations
We implemented animations for create, delete or remove sticky notes as well as mirror and moving them to other boards.
November 29th 2019
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.8.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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November 22nd 2019
SELECT STICKY TYPE FIRST
Now when you create a new sticky note the first thing you have to do is select what sticky type you want it to be. After that you can instantly start typing the summary.
November 16th 2019
OVERVIEW WHERE LINKED STICKIES ARE
We just released a new feature that gives you a better overview. When clicking on the link icon where you find all the stickies that are linked to this particular sticky note you now also have the information which teams the stickies are assigned, in which iteration they sit and (if they are synced with an ALM tool) what ALM key they have.
November 10th 2019
DIRECT LINK TO JIRA OR RALLY
Click on the Jira issue key or Rally work item key in the upper right corner of the sticky note and you will be immediately redirected to the Jira issue or Rally work item.
October 31st 2019
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.7.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
October 30th 2019
DETAILED INFORMATION ON ITERATION OVERVIEW
The sticky notes you have in the Iteration Overview which you can access by double clicking an iteration has now all the information on the sticky notes you wanted. Makes it easy to present them to the team or stakeholders.
October 28th 2019
ADDED STICKY TYPE TO OVERVIEW
Now you can also see what the sticky type of the stickies on the Program Backlog Board are. Furthermore is it possible now to sort the Program Backlog Board items overview by which teams are assigned to the sticky notes.
October 22nd 2019
SET OWN STORY POINTS VALUE
You don't plan with the Fibonacci sequence? No problem with this release. Now just click on the Story Points field and enter your own preferred value in the text field.
October 14th 2019
NEW WAY TO FLAG STICKY NOTES
We removed the flag from the sticky note menu and added it to the upper left corner where you can click it to flag sticky notes.
October 10th 2019
OBJECTIVE SCALE
Press the buttons in the lower left corner of the Objectives overview to upsize or downsize the Objectives. This gives you better readability when presenting them for example on a projector.
October 1st 2019
LAUNCH OF WEBAPP! (beta)
Today is a big day! After countless hours of hard work we are finally ready to release the beta version of the piplanning app. When designing the new web-based version of the piplanning app we took all the customer feedback we got and all the learnings from the previous version and turned it into a beautiful and extremely intuitive new piplanning app version. Check it out yourself.

August 16th 2020
TEAMS WITH NO OBJECTIVES STILL APPEAR IN XLSX EXTRACT
Previously, the XLSX excerpt only listed teams that had defined objectives. This meant that there was no overview of which teams had not defined any objectives during PI Planning. This is different now. Now you also see the teams without defined objectives.
August 12th 2020
CLEARER DISTINCTION OF MIRRORED AND DEFAULT STICKY TYPES
We have clearly separated the sticky types that can be created on a board and those that can be mirrored to this board. This also makes it easier to understand how the board is set up.
August 4th 2020
JULY CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in July 2020 for the Cloud RTE Cockpit
July 31st 2020
COLLABORATION CANVASES
Before someone can use the Collaboration Canvases, you must first configure them for the PI Planning Session. This way you can still avoid chaos and it is really simple to do.
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July 22nd 2020
WEBHOOK PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
We have improved the Webhook performance of the piplanning app by factor five.
July 13th 2020
CREATE TEST WORK ITEMS IN RALLY
With one button press you can now create a test work item in Rally to test if your configured required fields work fine.
July 12th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.4
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
Release Notes Version 2.4
July 8th 2020
JUNE CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in June 2020 for the Cloud RTE Cockpit
June 24th 2020
SPECIAL SETTINGS AVAILABLE DURING SESSION CREATION
Until now, certain settings when creating the session were only available when editing the session. We have now changed this. Everything can be set the first time you create a session.
June 15th 2020
DOWNLOAD AUDIT LOGS
From the settings you can now download the audit logs. All you have to do is enter the time period and click on the "Export Logs" button.
June 4th 2020
MAY CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in May 2020 for the Cloud RTE Cockpit
May 23th 2020
ADMIN EMAIL REQUIRED
When you create an admin user, you must now also specify an email address so that if he forgets his password, he can reset it himself.
May 19th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.3
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
Release Notes Version 2.3
May 14th 2020
HIGHLIGHT OF ACTIVE PI PLANNING SESSION
As an RTE at the first step of the session creation "General" you can set a date for your PI Planning. As soon as the day is approaching, in the piplanning app the PI Planning session will be highlighted in grey.
May 5th 2020
APRIL CLOUD FEATURE OVERVIEW!
Learn in this video what we released in April 2020 for the Cloud RTE Cockpit
April 18th 2020
ALLOW TEAMS TO ACCESS SESSION THEY ARE NOT PART OF
Under Teams you can now assign teams to a session without giving them a Team Board. This way you can also create e.g. a Solution session that allows you to visualize dependencies between ARTs.
March 15th 2020
XLSX EXTRACT INCLUDING DEPENDENCIES
The XLSX export now also contains the dependencies. This way, you can also feed it back into an ALM tool that has no direct sync.
February 5th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.1
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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February 28th 2020
HELPFUL ERROR MESSAGES WITH CSV IMPORT
When uploading a CSV file and something with the iteration numbering is not correct, we let you know with an error message you can understand.
February 5th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 2.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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January 20th 2019
RALLY DEFAULT FIELD VALUES
Use default field values if you want that a specific filed in Rally gets filled out automatically when a sticky note is created in the piplanning app. That's also helpful if you have some required fields.
January 8th 2020
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.9.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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December 16th 2019
EXCLUDE Rally "ACCEPTED" ITERATIONS
In the Iteration mapping dropdown we only show Rally iterations that don't have the status "Accepted" in Rally. This way you don't have to scroll through hundreds of iterations which aren't relevant for you.
November 29th 2019
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.8.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
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November 22nd 2019
LIST ALL RALLY PROJECTS
We extended the limit of 200 to list all Rally Projects of a Rally Workspace.
November 18th 2019
SORT Jira PROJECTS, BOARDS, AND ISSUE TYPES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
When ever you map something from the piplanning app to Jira the entries are now sorted in alphabetical order which makes it (for obvious reasons) way easier to find the right one.
October 31st 2019
ON-PREMISE RELEASE VERSION 1.7.0
This release includes all the features from previous Cloud releases.
October 24th 2019
PREVENT JIRA ISSUES FROM BEING DELETED
The setting "Move Jira issue to backlog when not in any iteration" when creating a new PI Planning session is now activated by default. This way you don't have to go back and activate it by hand anymore in order to prevent Jira issues from being deleted when teams drag them outside a synced iteration in the piplanning app.
October 1st 2019
LAUNCH OF WEBAPP! (beta)
Today is a big day! After countless hours of hard work we are finally ready to release the beta version of the piplanning app. When designing the new web-based version of the piplanning app we took all the customer feedback we got and all the learnings from the previous version and turned it into a beautiful and extremely intuitive new piplanning app version. Check it out yourself.

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