This page contains information about changes in the recent releases for our standalone SaaS version of ActionableAgile at https://analytics.actionableagile.com and changes to our labs area where we test new features. All labs changes will be identified as such.
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Latest Changes
We’ve introduced additional display options for Stalled Items in the Aging Work In Progress Chart.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the pre-made dates for the Date Range did not stack correctly.
We’ve introduced a new chart control, the Date Range. This will allow you to look at specific date ranges for completed items across all charts.
🐛 We fixed a bug that prevented users from selecting attributes in the Item Filter that used square brackets [ ].
🐛 We fixed a bug where uploading external files with timestamps caused the external data loader to crash.
🐛 We have upped the external file size limit from 1MB to 3MB.
🐛 We fixed a bug where a value without speech marks in a JSON would cause a white screen in the data loader.
🐛 We fixed a bug where having a workflow stage located at the end of your data set caused a white screen in the external data loader.
Say hello to our new external file loader! We’ve revamped it to make your external file-loading experience easier and more customisable. Read about it here.
🐛 We fixed a bug where components would duplicate in the Source Data Chart.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the tooltip on the Process Behaviour Chart was too dark.
🐛 We fixed a bug on the Process Behaviour Chart where the tooltip showed the wrong information.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the Cycle Time Scatterplot’s Trend Line was flat if the user was located in EST.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the Trend Line on the Cycle Time Scatterplot was appearing flat for some users.
🐛 We fixed a bug where if the app did not initialise with Products Fruits correctly, users could not select it from the drop-down menus.
🐛 We fixed a bug where some users were unable to interact with the external data loader.
🐛 We fixed a bug in which text would not wrap correctly when using Safari
🐛 We fixed the contrast of selected areas on dark mode as they were hard to see
🐛 We fixed the date control chart on the WIP Runchart as it would add one day to the selection
We fixed minor UI tweaks
🐛 We fixed a bug on the CFD in which the dialog box would only show up to 7 workflow stages
🐛 We fixed a bug in which the item filter was overlapping the app header
🐛 We fixed a bug that prevented carts from showing blocked day details
🐛 We fixed a bug in which a selection made on the date control chart would not be saved when changing charts
🐛 We fixed a bug in which the data loader did not calculate correctly how much data was left to load would keep going after 100%
🐛 We have fixed issues with backward flow.
🐛 We have fixed an issue on the Pace: Start vs Finish chart in which the last “Start” value was incorrect on the Dashboard.
🐛 We fixed the contrast between the text and background in dark mode.
🐛 We fixed a bug in the total age calculations on the Dashboard.
🐛 We fixed a bug in which external files were not loading correctly due to the date format being DD/MM/YYYY. Any files exported from the app will now follow the format YYYY-MM-DD.
🐛 We fixed a bug in which the set default chart would not be recognized.
🐛 We fixed a bug in which the trial banner would hide the lower part of the chart and was not visible while in dark mode.
We released ActionableAgile 5.0 🥳 Read more about all the changes here.
🐛 We fixed a bug where non-organisational users had charts failing to load.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the Cumulative Flow Diagrams Rate lines went in the wrong direction when using the Date Control chart.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the Date Control selection was removed when collapsing the Date Control.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the Work Item Details could break if the Time Unit were changed.
We added the Cumulative Flow Chart to our Beta experience.
🐛 We fixed a bug where users could not filter by item on the Heat Map.
🐛 We fixed a bug where scaling throughout on the Monte Carlo: How Many chart caused strange behavior.
🐛 We fixed a bug where excluding blocked time could cause negative cycle time.
We fixed a bug where the Add Trials option on the Monte Carlo Simulation was not working.
We fixed a bug where users could not authenticate on a different Jira instance.
We’ve promoted the Monte Carlo: When, Monte Carlo: How Many and the Aging Work in Progress charts to Main Charts.
🐛 We fixed a bug where the performance of the Dashboard Chart was affected when loading a data set with more than 1000 issues.
We’ve added new charts to our Beta experience, including the Cycle Time Scatterplot and the Aging Work in Progress charts.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when using the date control in Monte Carlo: When chart, the dates chosen were not respected.
🐛 We fixed an issue where the Monte Carlo: When chart had multiple percentile controls.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when using the simulation control in Monte Carlo: How Many chart, any date picked after March would not work.
We’ve added new charts to our Beta experience, including the Monte Carlo: How Many and the Monte Carlo: When.
We fixed an issue where incorrect zero padding caused the Date Control on the Throughput Run Chart to appear incorrectly.
We’ve promoted the Dashboard and Flow Efficiency Chart from Beta to a Main Chart.
We’ve promoted the WIP Run Chart and Throughput Run Chart from Beta to a Main Chart.
We’ve added new charts to our Beta experience, including the Dashboard and Flow Efficiency Chart.
We fixed bugs in the Cycle Time and Throughput Histograms.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when using the Jira Cloud Board loader, it would crash after selecting a Board.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when using the Jira Cloud Board loader, loading would become stuck at 90%.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when loading through OAuth, backward flow was not being taken into account on some issues.
We’ve added new charts to our Beta experience, including the Cycle Time Histogram and Throughput Histogram.
We’ve also added our new Date Control to our Beta Charts.
We’ve promoted the Source Data Chart from Beta to a Main Chart.
Just in time for the Holidays, we’re releasing some new and improved features! 🎁
🥳 We’ve redesigned our Work Item Dialogue for upgraded aesthetics and simplified use.
🎄 We’ve upgraded our Beta experience! Labs is no longer a separate app; you simply toggle the Labs icon within the app!
⛄ Within the new Beta experience, you’ll find the gift of our new charts, including the Beta versions of the Heat Map, Source Data Chart, Throughput Run Chart, and WIP Run Chart!
🐞 We fixed a bug where the Process Behaviour Chart failed to load.
💾 We’ve lowered the fetch limit to improve performance in the OAuth data loader and reduce timeouts.
🐛 We fixed an issue where, when loading through OAuth, not all change logs were being implemented when loading data
🐛 We fixed an issue where date ranges, e.g., 50-60, in the Monte Carlo When chart Simulation Control, was not being supported.
💾 We’ve updated our External File Loader so you can drag and drop CSV, XLX, and JSON files into the loader.
💾 We've updated our Trello and JSON loaders
💾 We’ve improved the UI of data loading dropdown
🏘️ You can now choose a default chart to land on!
🧑💻 We've updated our example data
🧑💻 We've updated our subscription wall.
🤳 We've released our new and improved chart controls.
💾 We've updated our External Data Loader.
🥖 We've updated our French translations.
🏗️ We migrated the code for chart controls for all charts but the Monte Carlo simulations to a new library, allowing us to make faster changes in the future.
🎉 We removed many alert popups and replaced them with messages in the affected controls. This is because many of the alerts confused users more than helped them when they were out of context from the controls the information impacted.
🎉 Now, instead of hiding controls related to percentiles when there are fewer than 10 completed items, we show the controls as disabled with an alert message as to why they are disabled.
🐞 We fixed some instances where the text wasn't showing up properly.
🎉 We deployed a new improved file loader! You can now drag and drop files into the dialog or use the file selector to load your external data into ActionableAgile. What's more, we've added quick validation to alert you of any problematic lines in your file so you can decide to stop or proceed and view them in the error report. Learn more.
🐞 We fixed a bug which increases the timeout from 30 seconds to 60 seconds during the fetching process.
🐞 We fixed a bug where numeric IDs were showing for Assignees and Reporters when loading in Jira Data.
🐞 We fixed a bug that was causing the loading of large data sets to time out.
🐞 We fixed a bug where keys were showing instead of text in the Legacy Jira Data Loader.
🏗️ We removed the Process Behaviour Chart as it's not ready…yet 😏
🐞 We fixed an issue in our new OAuth Jira Cloud loader that caused you only to be able to access the first 50 boards you have access to.
🐞 We fixed a bug in which typing into the subscription form was interacting with the chart-changing keystrokes, causing a failure of the form submission.
🎉 We deployed a new and improved internationalization framework to support our current English and French languages and to make it easier to support new languages in the future.
🎉 We launched a new data loading wizard for Jira Cloud that uses OAuth, so you have a much more secure way to load data! Read more
LABS
🎉 We launched a new data loading wizard for Jira Cloud that uses OAuth, so you have a much more secure way to load data! Read more
We update the copyright date on the login page
🐞 We fixed a bug in which some excel files weren't loading.
🐞 We fixed a bug that prevented users from logging into ActionableAgile Analytics via Google Authenticator in Safari.
LABS
Process Behavior Chart Changes in preparation for production launch
Made improvements to the Date Control area.
🐞 Fixed a bug with the dots highlighted on the moving range chart when Large Change is selected in the Process Signals control
Changes from previous years
We fixed a bug in ActionableAgile Analytics in which certain XSLS files would not load in our Labs and Production sites.
We have released the following to ActionableAgile Analytics!
A new header experience we’ve been testing in our lab! Read more
Removal of the beta label from the Trello data loader
Increased password complexity requirements for user accounts from 6 characters to a minimum of 8. Also, the password must contain one uppercase letter, one number, and one special character. The password screen will now guide you so that you understand the requirements as you are creating the password.
An option to show/hide your password on the login screen
We have released the following to our ActionableAgile Labs only!
anonymous usage analytics of the new Process Behavior chart are now sent to MixPanel
We have released the following to ActionableAgile Analytics!
We have added support for archived cards in Trello. 🎉 💪🏽 Archived cards are now considered as having entered the last workflow stage and you have a field called Archived In that shows where the card was when it was archived.
We have fixed a number of bugs in the Heat Map chart regarding tooltip displays
We fixed a bug in the Aging Work In Progress chart in which the chart throws errors when you disable all workflow stages.
We have begun the back-end process of consolidating and migrating our internal APIs to AWS. This will allow better compliance with enterprise expectations and security standards.
We have released the following to our ActionableAgile Labs only!
We have increased password complexity for user accounts authenticating with user/password.
We have added the option to show/hide your password on the login screen
We updated links in the welcome dialog box which you can revisit from the
dropdown.
We have upgraded the copyright year in the footer to correctly match the copyright date in the welcome screen of the app
You now must have an active subscription to access the app. Previously you could load data when your subscription expired but not use any chart controls. This did not have significant value so we simplified our options by removing this freemium option.
We now have the ability to use a URL to submit a properly formatted data file to ActionableAgile.
Text regarding trial length has been updated to reflect the increase from 14 days to 30.
We fixed a bug in which people who canceled, but should have access until the end of their subscription period, were blocked from access.
We deployed a fix that removes an extra / character which was causing issues when fetching board data when the Jira instance didn’t have a context path set.
Updated French Translations
Updated links in the
dropdown menu in the navbarResolved the following bugs:
Tooltips/hover on Heat Map does not show the correct column name
Data and chart configurations were not persisting between sessions
Issue changing time unit on CT Scatterplot and Throughput run chart
Various JavaScript errors generated behind the scenes by the Cumulative Flow Diagram
Uploading a CSV file failed when the last column contained a date
Improved error messaging during the purchase process to let users know exactly why their transaction has failed (credit card issue, coupon code issue, etc.)
We have made multiple improvements to our trial and subscription management system. Users can now:
Join another user’s subscription from a trial using an invite code as long as you have no other users in your trial. You can also use an invite code from an expired trial.
Allow you to use existing billing information or choose to update it when purchasing from a trial.
Users are prevented from being added to a subscription multiple times
Now pulling all components for each issue when loading data through the Jira wizard: AFJ-356 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Resolved error when loading Jira boards with columns in board column names
Fixed Keyboard shortcuts to fast-switch between charts
Resolved issue causing data load to fail when you have trend lines enabled but your data has zero finished items.
Added text “Calculated averages for all data as of:” to Stability gadget on Dashboard chart to clarify what the data reflects.
Trello Integration: No longer need to enter your email address to connect with Trello.
Fixed link text for the Release Notes link
Fixed a flow efficiency bug that was affecting calculations.
Trello integration updates:
Resolved bug in Trello integration so that labels never gets confused with a workflow stage.
Obfuscated API token in Trello wizard.
Set the groundwork for Blocked calculations to use a label of ‘blocked’ (case-insensitive) in Trello. (integration will be removed from Beta once this is done)
We no longer require (but still prefer) that workflow stage containing the word Backlog and/or Options be the first stage. However, if you do have it that way, we’ll treat the 1st column like a backlog and uncheck that stage so it is not included in metrics calculations.
Added clarifying text to Stability module on Dashboard to show that it is a reflection of all data loaded until today, this month or this week.
Removed Beta text for Calendar feature on Monte Carlo simulations and made them visible by default.
TWIG changes (https://analytics.actionableagile.com/twig )
Removed loading options as the app should only be used to view example data and saved game data.
Fixed bugs regarding Summary Statistics for the Cumulative Flow Diagram when using chart controls.
Added clarifying text to Stability module on Dashboard.
Removed Beta text for Calendar feature on Monte Carlo simulations and made them visible by default.