Release Notes - 2016

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Jul 05, 2017
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1st December 2016

  • PBI Correlation - fix duplicate Id issues
  • CFD - Add 'hide' to CFD chart settings
  • VSTS - menu with 'Home' and 'Support'
  • PDS - Fix popup has wrong data
  • BurnUp - to handle having date set back to historic date
  • Burnup - Fix filtering by feature
  • BurnUp & PDS - Allow a history limit to be set in visualisation.config
  • BurnUp - Fix Jira done states issue on Burnup
  • Epic progress - Saved chart not showing new feature parents
  • All charts - Fix when no AreaPaths are selected including "All" error
  • All charts - Fixes for dashboards issues
  • All charts - added spinner to home page
  • All charts - remove All tag
  • All charts - move buttons off the charts into dropdowns above the charts
  • All charts - fixed Help links
  • All charts - Jira Marketplace POC
  • All charts - Updated Jira status ordering
  • All charts - Change Path filtering use of UNDER to =
  • All charts - Fix issue with greater than 20000 workitems handling in 2015/VSTS


Release 2.0.0.886

21st October 2016

  • UI - Layout improvements
  • All charts - caching fixes

Release 2.0.0.827

14th September 2016

  • All charts - caching performance improvements

Release 2.0.0.697

3rd August 2016

  • BurnUp - Fix sorting by date on popup
  • PDS - Fix no done items issue
  • WIP - Fix chart truncates on right side
  • WIP - Fix save of unassigned setting
  • All charts - Fix created date on newly saved charts

Release 2.0.0.673

23rd July 2016

  • CFD - Add burn up style data to popup
  • CFD - New style state selector
  • BurnDown - Fix for data loading issue causing flat lined charts
  • BurnDown - Add done states selection via new Chart Settings ((e.g. allows Closed as a done state)
  • Data - Improved testing via mocking

Release 2.0.0.655

13th July 2016

  • Fix - handle null workitem titles
  • Dashboards - Add CFD and BurnDown

Release 2.0.0.647

11th July 2016

  • Fix saved charts table memory issue and performance
  • BurnUp - Fix cache issue for selection of workitem different types

Release 2.0.0.643

8th July 2016

  • WIP - remove redundant save png button
  • Burnup - ultra fast loading of saved chart
  • Saved charts data table - less columns displayed for clarity

Release 2.0.0.624

5th July 2016

  • Jira - all charts now available
  • All charts - new tags / label selector with type ahead functionality
  • Epic Progress - toggle between show estimates and count
  • PDS - split long title data over multiple lines
  • Provide a default mode in REST to not use SOAP api if unavailable when getting effort field
  • Priority order as double to handle large numbers (several billion)
  • Favorite Charts
  • Default landing / home page to saved charts / favorites
  • Burn Down - fix given key not present in dictionary
  • Hangs on loading states fixed
  • Add deleted item handling for 2015 api

Release 2.0.0.560

13th June 2016

  • Performance enhancements
  • Cache debug options increased

Release 2.0.0.544

1st June 2016

New Functionality:

  • Potentially Deliverable Scope (PDS) in beta.
  • WIP and PDS are now included in Dashboard

Minor enhancements

  • Jira data loading updated
  • Mode 2 filter for Burn Up and PDS

Release 2.0.0.499

23rd May 2016

  • Tags selection - All now always at top of the list
  • Paths load limit - can be set in the visualization.config file


Release 2.0.0.493

19th May 2016

New Functionality

  • Dashboards can show BurnUp and Feature Progress visuals
  • Dashboards on VSTS


Minor Enhancements

  • PBI Treemap, order PBIs by state
  • BurnUp - Filtering on the DIFF column in the popup table
  • Jira to exclude loading released and archived versions
  • BurnUp - Advance Filter
  • Jira - Performance changes
  • Filter selection panel aborts existing selection data loads when selection changes
  • BurnUp - Fix to the Completed Work popup table not showing items involved in decrease
  • Jira - Not to display team on chart surface
  • Logging - addition of logging capability
  • Epic Progress - increase space for labels
  • BurnUp - Resize
  • Epic Progress - Resize
  • Jira - Fix for Jira Dashboard showing project ID rather than name

Release 2.0.0.441

3rd May 2016

  • BurnUp - Add Dashboard capability
  • Fix IE error seen primarily in VSTS and hanging when loading Kanban States
  • Fix 2D Backlog - Enforce a minimum size to prevent resizing down to non visible
  • Fix for Jira data retrieval and caching issues.
  • Fix Epic Progress - Jira colours

Release 2.0.0.408

14th April 2016

  • Fix - Caching filtering issue
  • Fix - Chrome state colours

Release 2.0.0.403

13th April 2016

  • Fix - Caching date format issue
  • Fix - VSTS scrolling on the homepage and saved charts page
  • Enhanced cache admin with a cache priming tool that allows the cache to be fully rebuilt by an admin

Release 2.0.0.397

11th April 2016

  • EpicProgress - Jira enhancements
  • BurnUp - Jira enhancements
  • BurnUp - Caching enhancements
  • TFS 2013 query performance improvements

Release 2.0.0.378

24th March 2016

  • BurnUp - Caching enhancements

Release 2.0.0.356

18th March (as previous release)

Release 2.0.0.355

17th March 2016

  • Backlog Health PBI - Fix no chart drawn.
  • BurnDown - Fix always drawing down to the end of the last day
  • PBITreeMap - Fix drill down not working
  • Data filtering and selection panel - Workaround for VSO access issue

Release 2.0.0.342

11th March 2016

  • Features
  • Burn Up - Available in Jira
  • Burn Up - Caching option to improve performance (TFS and Jira)
  • Burn Up - Allow selection of multiple Epics
  • Burn Up - Fix issue of chart settings not saving
  • Burn Up - Fix big white space gap above chart in VSTS
  • Burn Up - Only show right hand count axis when appropriate
  • Burn Down - Fix missing dates on Current Sprint
  • Correlation - Remove items with no estimates from the correlation
  • All Charts - In data filtering and selection select All now de-selects children
  • All Charts - Fix data filtering and selection cache issue; cache should not be shared across users
  • All Charts - Fix sub team virtual states not being picked up
  • Requirements Readiness don't group by Area Path
  • Support Feedback direct link to ZenDesk

Release 2.0.0.269

11th February (as previous release)

Release 2.0.0.263

9th February 2016

  • Features
  • VSTS All Charts add scrolling
  • Burn Down show weekends on chart and ideal trend line exclude weekends
  • Burn Down Fix for last day of sprint not fully burning down
  • Epic Progress add axis labelling
  • Epic Progress show () around removed Epics on y axis, display state in popup and URL to edit Epic
  • PBI Correlation make dots same size
  • Burn Up selection of Epic for filtering

Release 2.0.0.237

2nd February 2016

  • Features
  • Licensing introduced
  • Burn Up allows override of calculated estimate
  • Burn Up can toggle chart as count or effort
  • Burn Up Fix for negative scope issue
  • CFD shows *e for un-estimated in the popup dialog.
  • No display of Collection or Project in VSTS as in context
  • WIP Fix for undefined issue in VSTS
  • Fix for All not being default in Area selection
  • 2D Backlog Fix for scaling issue
  • 2D Backlog Fix for loosing the moveable title
  • Spinners on Iteration and Area selectors when loading
  • JIRA infrastructure

Release 2.0.0.202

21st January 2016

  • Features
  • Fix Staleness not displaying workitem types in the chart area
  • Makes states case agnostic
  • New chart 2 D Backlog
  • Combine colours for renamed states
  • Fix for exceeding concurrency limit of 100 with very large data sets
  • Trial of more compact states selection layout on 2 D Backlog
  • Trial of moveable chart title data info on 2 D Backlog
  • New client specific automated release process to a client download site

Release 2.0.0.174

16th December

  • Features
  • StuckPBI performance improvements
  • StuckPBI colours for PBI, Bug and Blocked
  • StuckPBI 20 day rolling mean
  • New chart PBI correlation
  • Epic Progress fix scaled down font size issues
  • Notes: This release is BRANDED

Release 2.0.0.159

10th December

  • Features
  • Notes: This release has SenseAdapt GENERIC branding

Release 2.0.0.158

10th December

  • Features
    • Tree view for area path
    • Multi area path select
  • Notes: This release is BRANDED

Release 2.0.0.153

9th December

  • Features
    • StuckPBI on home page
    • Team Field can be set via config
    • Team Project default can be set via config
    • Burn Down: Fix for no start dates, short X axis and short Y axis
    • All Charts: Fix for index must be within bounds of list
  • Notes: This release has SenseAdapt GENERIC branding

Release 2.0.0.148

8th December

  • Features
    • Branding

Release 2.0.0.147

8th December

  • Features
    • All Charts: Tree view iteration control
    • All Charts: Teams based iterations selection
    • Burn Up: Bars for bugs now show done and not done
    • All Charts: Further consolidation around states and ordering
    • Branding

Release 2.0.0.140

2nd December

  • Features
    • All Charts: Further consolidation around states and ordering

Release 2.0.0.139

30th November

  • Features
    • BurnDown: Display PBI points curve even when there are no children Tasks
    • BurnUp: Rounding of bug bars and reposition of Optimistic and Pessimistic labels
    • All Charts: use buttons in place of ratio for chart options where only one option exists
    • All Charts: Wrap iteration path in selector and right justify only available in Chrome
    • All Charts: If no kanban board states available use the base states
    • Fix for text colour opposites in Chrome
    • Fix for click on red markers in BurnUp
    • Fix for internal server error on some data loads

Release 2.0.0.133

25th November

  • Features
    • Allocate automatic different colours for states for clearer CFD
    • Revert to the underlying base template state when a Kanban state has been removed from the Kanban board
    • Renamed Kanban states retain history of previous Kanban state

Release 2.0.0.129

24th November

  • Features
    • Hide data table on Tree Map
    • New chart added
    • Moveable data popups
    • Iteration path hover over to show long paths

Release 2.0.0.112

19th November

  • Features
    • Drop downs caching to improve performance
    • Multiple iteration path selection in Burn Up and CFD
    • Do not show full qualified names in WIP
    • Add bottom section to the un-estimated column in Burn Up
    • Add chart title to browser window
    • VSO enhancements

Release 2.0.0.93

11th November

  • Features
    • Some caching to improve performance
    • Re-factor charts to be faster by filtering on more data server side
    • Multiple TAG selection in WIP, Epic Progress and CFD

Release 2.0.0.82

5th November

  • Features
    • Drop downs with alphabetic sort
    • Multiple TAG selection in Burn Up and Down
    • Additions to diagnostics page
    • Popup data table refactoring including reorder of now and was
    • Added features to support VSO
    • Toggle data panel on and off

Release 2.0.0.54

28th October

  • Features
    • CFD using the 'virtual Kanban states' including history
    • Show proportion of Bugs in the scope (toggle-able)
    • Multiple iterations in 'Select data'
  • Monte Carlo
    • Refinement of data based on second client's actual project data
  • Fixed:
    • WIP not showing PBI table

Release 2.0.0.18

13/10/15

  • Burn-up:
    • Toggle to show unestimated PBIs
    • Set throughput manually, for use when there is no historical throughput data to use
    • Choose multiple iteration paths
    • Set the 'Definition of Done' for a specific chart e.g. for Burn-up
  • Other
    • New SenseAdapt branding and colours
    • Colours customisable for a client
    • Enable use of the REST Api in TFS 2015 - making application faster
  • Monte Carlo
    • Validation of engine with client data on two large projects - further refinement of model
    • Display of results updated

September

  • Features
    • Show chart data in the searchable, downloadable table form
    • Show proportion of unestimated PBIs in Burnup scope (toggle-able)
  • Monte Carlo
    • Early validation and improvement of model, using our internal project data
    • Monte Carlo simulation demonstration of cards on across the board
    • Simulation speed increased by factor of 10


  • Other
    • Further automation of deployment into client sites for easy frequent upgrades

SenseAdapt version created for Visual Studio Online

August

  • Creation of Monte Carlo simulation engine
    • Automated deployment to client sites
    • Security tied into client's Active Directory, so that users can only see charts they have permissions for

July

  • Features
    • Change settings for Burn-up. Sampling frequency, history to use in mean calculation

June

  • New Charts
    • CFD
    • Sprint Burndown
    • Backlog Health
  • Features
    • Drill through to PBI in TFS

May

  • New Charts
    • PBI Staleness
    • Feature Progress
  • Features
    • Click to save charts, with specific settings

April

  • New Charts
    • Requirements Readiness
    • Treemap
    • WIP by team member
    • Burn-up / Landing Zone