Agemba System Messages

Agemba version 1.4 has been released containing some noteworthy changes!

Dashboard Changes

The Dashboards both at the Site and Circle level have undergone some changes to improve the process of customizing private Dashboards and introduce facilities for publishing Dashboards for public use both at the Site and Circle level. Read more.

List View Changes

Similar to the Dashboard, the List View has also undergone some changes to improve the process of customizing private Lists and introduce facilities for publishing Lists for public use both at the Site and Circle level. Read more.

Other Minor Changes

Export functions such as to PDF or Excel have been moved from the Tools dropdown menu to a new Export dropdown menu.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.13 has been released containing some noteworthy changes!

Following Changes

It is now possible to choose to follow specific items in Agemba, either as an individual or collectively as a team. Following an item can be done while creating it or from its context menu, via right click or menu icon. Doing so will ensure that the individual or the team members see all changes in their personal activity feed on the Dashboard. Moreover, followed items will be listed on the Dashboard. Read more.

Adding Jira Issues directly in Agemba

For those working with Jira integrated Agemba Circles, it is now possible to add an existing Jira Issue, using its Jira Key, while in the Circle. This can be done in a very much similar way as when Epics or Stories are created i.e. via right click or menu icon. More on Agemba Jira Integration here.

User roles and licenses re-worked

In order to communicate more clearly about what different users can and cannot do, the user roles for both Circle and Site have been redefined, as have the required user licenses. Read more about Circle roles, Site roles and License levels.

…and a lot more

Numerous minor improvements and fixes have been made since the last release, in particular in the recently update Outline view.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.12 has been released containing a lot of exciting changes!

Outline view revamped

This is the highlight of this release. Releases and Sprints are plotted into the timeline, to match with their start and end dates. Optionally, Kanban Lanes and Preplanned Lists can also be shown and their planned items too. The cards used to represent these planning containers are identical in appearance to that seen in the Product and Sprint Backlog views. Cards that are planned to any of the containers are marked with indicator lines and icons for milestone relations and deadline date indicators are displayed as well. In contrast to the outdated Outline view, the timeline utilizes the full height of the view and can thus be panned or zoomed anywhere within that area.

Chart rendering and information improved 

Chart rendering and the information displayed on them have been improved to make them more useful and easy to understand. Several different charts can be shown for Releases and Sprints as seen below:

Charts on the dashboard

Charts can now be configured to be shown in dashlets on the Dashboard. A Dashboard page has been preconfigured to show Release and Sprint charts and can be selected from the Dashboard.

Editing Dashboard

While this is not a new feature, editing a Dashboard has been experienced by many to be a complicated procedure. With this update, that has been addressed and it can be done in a more user-friendly way; as can also be seen from the illustration below: 

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.10 has been released and with it comes a number of highly useful new features!

Deadlines and planning warnings

Specific required when deadlines can now be set for stories and epic, when a story has to be done and a certain date (and creating a separate milestones seems like to much). This data along with other contributions such as milestone relations, release planning, etc are then used to determine an effective deadline. If the planning of the story is in conflict with the deadline, the story is tagged with a warning displayed as an exclamation triangle. This also works when delegating stories or epics to another circle: if a story is planned and then delegated, the planned date will be the delegated deadline of the story in the other circle.

Subscribe to milestones from other circles in the Roadmap

Milestones can now be shared among circles. If circle X has created a common milestone, other circles can add this milestone to their Roadmap by subscribing to it. The milestone is still maintained in the original circle, but can be used in multiple circles and comments can be shared among users in all circles.

Inspect the impact of stories using the Impact Map

In the Storymap, the impact of a story can be displayed as an overlay for the selected card. This will show the planning and relations of the story as cards next to the story card.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.9 has been released. The full change log can be seen here. Besides a number of minor improvements and fixes, the most noteworthy changes are:

Tasks can be used in Kanban

It is now possible to work with tasks in Kanban

Stories can be planned in the edit form

Which release/sprint/kanban or preplanned list a story is planned to can now be set directly in the edit form, instead of from the Relations tab. The Relations tab has also been revised.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.8.0 has been released. The full change log can be seen here. Besides a number of minor improvements and fixes, the most noteworthy changes are:

Introduction of information icon on Kanban lane columns

Hovering over the icon will show details such as the total number of items in the column, its WIP limit and how many items are in the In Progress and Done states.

Introduction of disable drag on Roadmap item check box

Dragging Roadmap items will consequently alter their dates and therefore a checkbox has been introduced to disable dragging on the items if desired.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.7.2 has been released. The full change log can be seen here. Besides a number of minor improvements and fixes, the most noteworthy changes are:

Support for Kanban

Users can now work with Kanban in Agemba, by first creating kanban lanes in the Product Backlog, configuring them, adding items to these lanes and then executing in the Sprint Backlog.

Introduction of Scrollbar in Product and Sprint Backlog

Scrollbars have been introduced in the product and sprint backlog to assist the user in navigating these views.

You can always consult the ? icons to see help videos and texts. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.7 has been released. The full change log can be seen here. Besides a number of minor improvements and fixes, the most noteworthy changes are:

New sprint backlog design

The sprint backlog has been refactored to the same look-and-feel as the product backlog, includes the option to directly plan stories to a sprint using the left pane:

Better option to clean-up

Stories and other data can now be deleted and moved to trash. Just use the right click menu. All deleted data can be found in the Trash bin view from the More menu.

It is now also possible to see a number of guide videos by clicking the ? icons. If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team.

Agemba version 1.6 has been released. The full change log can be seen here.

The most noteworthy changes are the possibility to delegate stories and epics from one circle to another and to delegate stories to Jira (if configured). You can read more about delegation and the Jira integration.

If you have any questions as to how to use these new features, then please contact the support team

In release 1.5.0 of Agemba the most noteworthy change is a completely new Product Backlog design:

• Cards are now styled like those shown in the Storymap tree
• All cards can be selected and shown in the right pane overview
• The list of unplanned stories formerly shown to the right has been replaced by a filterable and sortable list to the left, which is intended to give a better overview of the yet unplanned stories
• An epic can now be shown in the left pane input view (instead of the list), which will show all stories below this epic. This facilitates planning all stories below a given epic, thus combining the functional hierarchy from the Storymap with the planning perspective of the Product Backlog
• A new type of list, Preplanned list, has been introduced, which are shown after all your releases. This allows preplanning a story, i.e. grouping stories in a list without being specific about which release date they are planned for. In the next version of agemba, it will be possible to convert a preplanned list to a release.

If you have any questions as to how to use this new Product Backlog, then please contact the support team