Release Notes for 10.67

• Enhancements and Features
• Defect Fixes

Enhancements and Features

New Strategy Room

We overhauled the Strategy Room to reflect objective achievement aligned to strategy. The room, driven off a snapshot, provides six views:

• Missions/Visions/Values: Quickly show the snapshot’s mission, vision, and values front and center. Missions, visions, and values can be created in the Strategic Backlog.

• OKR Heatmap: Visualize business outcome achievement quarter over quarter at the OKR and strategic level--specific to the strategic snapshot.

• OKR Tree: Show the alignment of team-level objectives/outcomes at the team, program, and portfolio levels up to strategy.

• Strategy Pyramid: Visualizing the hierarchy of strategy down to execution relating to overall key result achievement. 

• Execution Against Outcomes: View the progress of accepted work items for each level of strategic goals and objectives.

• Progress: View progress against all underlying work items and dependencies for the snapshot as a whole.

Strategic goals terminology changes

We updated the default platform terminology for strategic goals:

With these changes, strategy begins with yearly goals to define success for a strategic theme and builds up to North Star as a single measurable long-term outcome for the organization. 

Key results on strategic goals

To align objective achievement with strategy, you can now add key results to strategic goals. Strategic goals include North Stars, long-term goals, long-term strategies, and yearly goals, all of which can be created in the Strategic Backlog.

Strategic goals on the Objectives Tree

We updated the Objectives Tree to include strategic goals and their relationships with child strategic goals and objectives.

Defect Details panel enhancements

• The Name field now supports word-wrap, so that users can see the full name of the defect
• The Status field was moved to display directly under the State field. These fields, as well as the list of links, are now static so that they always display when scrolling in the panel
• Field widths and alignment were adjusted
• Dropdown styles were updated 

Role setup for Strategic Backlog
We added a system role toggle for Add/Save under Strategic Backlog to configure the ability to create and update missions, visions, values, and strategic goals on the strategic backlog. By default, this toggle has been switched off, but users who currently can create goals will still be able to create goals after the 10.67 release to production SaaS environments. The new toggle can be found in the Enterprise section of the Administration > Roles settings page.

 Supporting work

We added a new work type, Supporting. This type can be applied to epics, features, stories, and tasks from a work item’s Details panel. While this work item type is not tied to any team-level reports, it can be used to delineate work for those teams that support the delivery stream but may be tangential to or upstream/downstream from the work (i.e. product design or documentation).

Users are no longer able to update individual color preferences

Users will no longer have the ability to update user-specific colors in preferences, and all Jira Align instances were updated to only use the global color configuration set in Platform Settings. For instances that already use the global color configuration, this change will not impact users. 

Flash removal and Firefox import support

To prepare for Adobe’s 2020 plan to end-of-life Flash, we’ve removed all Flash components from Jira Align. As a result of this change, we were able to resolve a past limitation with import functionality and the Firefox web browser. Importing of work items and users is now supported when using Firefox.

Defect Fixes

New! We will now include links to resolved defects, so you can review the errors encountered, impacted areas, and more information. Click the Key of any defect to be taken to jira.atlassian.com (JAC), Jira Align's defect tracking portal.