Enhancements and Features
Trello connector now live!
Announced at the Atlassian Summit, you can now connect your Trello teams to teams already living in Jira Align. Sync each board as a kanban team, cards as work items, and track the progress of that team’s work against your program objectives.
Try this out for your development teams and supporting teams operating in Trello. If you're unfamiliar with supporting teams, they're teams like product design and documentation, who aren’t focused on development or QA, but still closely support the delivery streams tracked in Jira Align.
Check out the Trello Integration Guide, our blog post here, and reach out to your solution architect or customer success manager to get started.
New Links tray on work items
We added new Links tray to the bottom of work item details panels to provide quick access to important links. All existing External Links and External References have been converted to links. In addition, if the work item was created from an idea in Ideation, a link back to the original idea will display.
Improved Ideation views
We added two new ways to view ideas in the external Ideation portal. My Ideas displays all ideas the you've submitted. My subscriptions displays all ideas you've subscribed to. To support these filters, we added a Created by attribute to all ideas. When an idea is created, the user who creates the idea will be set as both the Created by user and the idea's Owner, although the owner can be changed. For existing ideas, the current owner will be set to the user who created the idea.
Roadmaps enhancements
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You can now change the color of items on the roadmaps by a group attribute, improving the ability to differentiate the groups when viewing or sharing roadmaps.
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Team and Strategic Driver were added to the Group by options. The Team option is only available for features and is based on the children stories' team assignment. The Strategic Driver option is only available for epics.
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Applied filters now persist when refreshing the page or navigating away and coming back to roadmaps.
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Theme Group and Type were added as filter options. Type is only available for the feature, capability, and epic roadmap views.
New API 2.0 resources and endpoints
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We added a new resource for Ideation. You can now create and get ideas.
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We added new endpoints were added to the User resource so that you can assign users to teams with a team role.
Defect Fixes
Key |
Summary |
Jira Connector | |
JIRAALIGN-1205 | The Jira Boards tab does not reflect updates made to Jira Align team names |
JIRAALIGN-1188 | Updates to Agile team names aren't reflected in the Team column of Administration > Jira Management > Jira Boards |
JIRAALIGN-663 | Syncing a read-only feature's Program Increment field from Jira to Jira Align does not sync Unassigned Backlog values |
JIRAALIGN-1164 | Users can create multiple state mappings for the same Jira state |
Backlog | |
JIRAALIGN-874 | Portfolio changes whenever a different backlog view is selected |
JIRAALIGN-1256 | Users can't pull rank from parent capabilities on the Feature Backlog |
JIRAALIGN-824 | A blank page displays when users apply the Customers filter on the Feature Backlog |
IRAALIGN-1310 | Incorrect tooltip for Points displays on the backlog's Kanban View |
Defects | |
JIRAALIGN-1328 | If Team is set as a required field, users cannot save changes to their defects |
Dependencies | |
JIRAALIGN-1261 | Depends On team cannot select stories from the team's PI and program |
Epics | |
JIRAALIGN-1225 | An EOF exception occurs when accessing an empty recordset on the Epics page |
JIRAALIGN-1311 | Users can add risks, objectives, and dependencies to epics when their system role permissions do not allow it |
Export | |
JIRAALIGN-1244 | Team weeks and other numbers are not in number format on the export file |
Features | |
JIRAALIGN-1276 | Users can misalign the PI on features with the PI on their parent epics |
JIRAALIGN-1292 | Users can add multi-program features to programs where Approach is turned off |
JIRAALIGN-1297 | Approach column doesn't display the value set on a feature's Details panel |
Goals | |
JIRAALIGN-1304 | Parent field contains an extra space between 'Parent' and colon |
Import | |
JIRAALIGN-653 | Importing work items with duplicate names overwrites the existing data in the application, causing data corruption |
Portfolios | |
JIRAALIGN-1285 | Users are able to modify a portfolio name to a name that already exists in Jira Align |
Program Board | |
JIRAALIGN-650 | When a kanban team is selected as a Depends On team and assigns a Commited By date to a dependency for a feature, the feature displays as red on the Program Board |
Reports | |
JIRAALIGN-1104 | Epic rank does not display on the Epic Analytics report |
JIRAALIGN-1312 | Sprint Scope Changes report fails to load |
JIRAALIGN-1233 | Progress By Objective Burndown labels incorrectly use 'Points' |
JIRAALIGN-1341 | Apostrophes in Health comments are duplicated on Status Reports |
Roadmaps | |
JIRAALIGN-1071 | Feature Roadmap ranking doesn't match the backlog when multiple PIs are selected in the Configuration bar |
Stories | |
JIRAALIGN-597 | Chat still displays after the Enable Conversations option is turned off in Platform Settings |
Strategy Room | |
JIRAALIGN-1295 | Progress charts aren't aligned when using custom terminology |
Team Meetings | |
JIRAALIGN-1212 | In Team Retrospective meetings, actions from past sprints cannot be marked Done or Abandoned |
Team Room | |
JIRAALIGN-1324 / JIRAALIGN-1299 | Unable to load chat in the Team Room |
Teams |
JIRAALIGN-1224 |
Anchor Dates tab only shows anchor sprints that have an end date that is after the team creation date |
Value Streams |
JIRAALIGN-1321 |
Process Step column on the Backlog and Features pages does not match the terminology used on value streams |
Work Tree |
JIRAALIGN-940 |
Incorrect wording in view titles. 'Bottoms Up View from Story' should read 'Bottom-Up View from Story' |
Misc. |
JIRAALIGN-1269 |
In checklists, users cannot turn the Use Video/Ext Link option off |
JIRAALIGN-927 / JIRAALIGN-1115 |
Impersonation does not limit access to just the common portfolios |
JIRAALIGN-1062 |
Manage Requesters system role toggle is not displayed |
JIRAALIGN-1222 |
Super Admins can turn off Administration privileges for the Super Admin system role |
JIRAALIGN-919 |
Configuration bar is disconnected from the top of the page when users view the Time Tracking page |
JIRAALIGN-1278 |
Platform Terminology changes aren't reflected in the Nav Menu search |
Jira Align BI Enhancements and Features
Release Highlights
- We added a new table for Objective History.
- We added a new table for Work Item Process Step Assignment History.
- We added a new table for Hypothesis Assumption.
- We added a Value tab to the Capability table.
- We extended Time Tracking by adding Administration Code, Blended Rate, Employee Classification, Holiday, Standard Task, Time Tracking Period along with their related mapping tables.
Platform Improvements
- We improved the read performance of the Audit Log.
- We updated schema and load logic for Customer, Work Code, Custom Field, Agile Object, Billing Code, User Login, Time Entry, Time Sheet, MAP Objective to Team, Test Case, Test Case Step.
New Tables
<Work Item> Process Step Assignment History |
History table for state changes to Process Step Assignment for each work item type (theme, epic, capability, feature, story)
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Capability Value | Value tab scorecard records for the capability. Unique row for each question answer per capability. Rows only exist for answered questions. [Score Card Name] - Text name of the scorecard to which this answer is associated.
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Hypothesis Assumption | Assumption attributes related to a work item Hypothesis
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Objective History | History table for the Objective object |
Administration Code | Time Tracking (time schema) - Administration Code master table |
MAP Administration Code Cost Center | Time Tracking (time schema) - Mapping table for Administration Codes to Cost Centers |
MAP Administration Code Employee Classification | Time Tracking (time schema) - Mapping table for Administration Codes to Employee Classifications |
MAP Administration Code Work Code | Time Tracking (time schema) - Mapping table for Administration Codes to Work Codes |
Blended Rate | Time Tracking (time schema) - Blended Rate master table |
Employee Classification | Time Tracking (time schema) - Employee Classification master table |
MAP Holiday Employee Classification | Time Tracking (time schema) - Mapping table for Holiday to Employee Classification |
Holiday | Time Tracking (time schema) - Holiday master table |
Standard Task | Time Tracking (time schema) - Standard Task master table |
Time Tracking Period | Time Tracking (time schema) - Time Tracking Period master table |
MAP Time Tracking Period Employee Classification | Time Tracking (time schema) - Mapping table for Time Period to Employee Classifications |
Updated Tables
Billing Code |
Added columns
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Capability |
Bug Fix - In certain cases, [FK Theme ID] could be changed without updating [Date DW Modified] |
Customer |
Added export_dw schema view |
Defect |
Added [FK Tag List ID] column, foreign key to [Tag List].[Tag List ID] to identify Tags |
Feature |
Bug Fix - In certain cases, [FK Theme ID] could be changed without updating [Date DW Modified] |
Log |
Added [FK User Impersonation ID] to identify impersonating user in log records. Added to Capability, Defect, Dependency, Epic, Feature, Goal, Objective, Program Increment, Program, Release Vehicle, Risk, Sprint, Story, Strategic Snapshot, Success Criteria, Task, Team, Test Case and Theme Log tables. |
MAP Objective to Team |
Added export_dw schema view |
MAP Value Stream to Customer |
Added export_dw schema view |
MAP Value Stream to Program |
Added export_dw schema view |
Portfolio |
Added [Active Flag] attribute ("Yes"/"No" value) |
Standard Task |
Time Tracking (time schema) - Added Foreign key to Standard Task - [FK Standard Task ID] |
Work Code |
Added export_dw schema view |
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