What's New in Agile On Demand
1. Reporting & Charting EnhancementsAgile On Demand launched in preview with ad-hoc reporting for project-level objects (products, releases, sprints, etc.). Now, you can create ad-hoc reports and charts on work-level objects (stories, tasks, defects). Our ad-hoc reporting capability will continue to improve dramatically, but the stage has been set for flexible, ultra-customizable work-item reports and charts. |
2. Role-Based DashboardsAgile On Demand comes with default role-based dashboards for the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Stakeholder. Role-based dashboards are created by displaying charts and reports in "widgets". They are highly flexible and customizeable, limited only by the reports and charts you can create. |
3. Process GuidanceStriving towards a goal of easy adoption, we've prepared a Process Guidance page (as a homepage) which allows users to quickly see what the product can do, and what Agile/SCRUM activities it supports. Drilling into each topic of the Product Guidance Page allows you to either learn more about that activity, or be directly taken to the product area where you can perform that activity. |
4. Product Owner StoryboardThere's no denying that Product Owners write stories from a simple idea to actionable details ready for sprint planning. Our teams are starting to track the progress of stories being worked on by Product Owners through the various phases of sprint-readiness. To help this activity, we've configured a Product Owner Storyboard to help visualize and track this progress. |
5. A Clean, Intuitive User InterfaceAgile On Demand has a simple user interface that focuses on activity-based navigation. It's designed to make it easier to find what you want and reduce the number of clicks it takes to get there. |
6. New Project WizardThe New Project Wizard is a convenient wizard-like feature which allows you to input some information about what products (or projects) you want to create backlogs for, the dates of your releases, teams, and sprint/iteration durations, and corresponding backlogs are automatically created for you in the Backlogs module. |
7. Backlog ToolbarWe've improved the UI on our backlog widgets to more easily identify which backlog you're looking at, as well as what display-mode is currently enabled. Users can view their backlogs in a hierarchical tree-mode, a ordered-list mode, or a table mode which supports filtering and grouping. |
8. Backlog Source PickersAgile On Demand provides flexible widgets for key agile UI elements like burn-down charts, storyboards and a backlogs. For those widgets, we have added a"most recently used" (MRU) list to our source pickers so that you can quickly switch to a recently used backlog. |
9. "My Work" WidgetAs the first step in displaying useful information to Developers, Testers, and other Team Members, we've introduced a new backlog widget that displays work items assigned to the currently logged-in user, regardless of product, release, or sprint. This provides a single place to view all the work that is assigned to you, without having to switch sources or navigate to different views. |
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11. JIRA IntegrationAgile On Demand now supports a first-level integration with JIRA issue/defect tracking. This integration allows you to import JIRA objects into Agile On Demand or export Agile On Demand objects into JIRA as JIRA objects. bi-directional updates will also allow users to update JIRA objects from either JIRA or Agile On Demand and have the changes be reflected in real-time. |