ExtremePlanner Release Notes

Version 3.2 - April 2008

• User Workload Reporting
  Track the current user workload by total assigned and remaining hours across all projects. Drill-down on specific users to see a per-project breakdown. Helps project managers keep the workload balanced.
• Multi-Project To Do List
  Enhanced To Do List allows users to see a single view of their active tasks and issues across all projects.
• Test Case Import
  Test cases can now be imported from Excel along with stories and tasks.
• Various Usability Enhancements
  
  • Select all/deselect all for list views
  • More room for entering story and task descriptions
  • Full-screen edit mode for rich text editing
  • Ability to delete stories/tasks/tests from the edit page
  • Move a task or test case to any story in the same project
  • Reset status for test results - can "clear" a test result to allow retesting
  • Notification emails now include links to the story/task/issue that generated them

Version 3.1 - July 2007

• Integrated Issue Tracking
  Track customer support requests, bug reports, or suggestions quickly and easily without cluttering your story backlog. If an issue does require development work, you can create user stories and link them back to the original issues.    
• Rich Text Editing Support
  Optional support for formatting of story, task, test, and issue descriptions, including lists and tables.  Can be enabled or disabled for your environment.
• Enhanced Recent Activity Reporting
  Monitor project activity including story, task, and issue updates, comments, and files added at a glance. See what's new or changed over any time period for the project.  Now includes ability to see activity for a specific user.  
• Personal To Do List View
  New To-Do List view lets you quickly scan your own assigned tasks and issues at a glance on login.   
• Enhanced Iteration Task Board View
  Iteration status view (task board) now supports an iteration health indicator that shows the calendar days remaining and estimates how long your team needs to finish the current work planned. Keep it green to stay on track, or dig deeper if it goes red too often.
• More Flexible Release/Iteration Planning
  You can now optionally use summed up task estimates for stories during release and iteration planning, configurable for your environment. 

Version 3.0 - February 2007

• Project Activity Monitoring
  Monitor project activity such as story and task updates, comments, and files added at a glance. See what's new or changed over any time period for the project.
• Drag and Drop Release and Iteration Planning
  Make planning and prioritizing quick and easy with drag and drop scheduling, including automatic effort calculation. Warning indicators tell you when your plan exceeds estimated release or iteration capacity.
• Enhanced Email Notification Support
  Task updates can now be sent as notifications.  Users can filter their notifications by type, as well as by their participation in tasks or stories.
• Improved Integration with External Systems
  Support for internal and external story links, including other related stories, external bug tracking systems, wikis and more.
• IDE Plugin Support
  Developers can review and update their tasks directly from Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs using our complimentary plugins.
• Navigation and Usability Enhancements
  New Backlog link on Project Summary to show unscheduled stories.  Expand/collapse Tasks functionality added to Iteration Status view.  Minor navigation improvements throughout.   

Version 2.2 - September 2006

• Multiple Project Summary View
  Users can now view all of their authorized projects with upcoming milestones and progress for each.
• Flexible Story Estimate Units
  Customers can now configure the system to specify story estimates in hours, days, weeks, or points.
• Enhanced Excel Imports
  Tasks can now be imported along with user stories during Excel imports.
• Export to MS Project or XML
  Project data can now be exported to Microsoft Project Exchage (MPX) or to generic XML format.
• Release burn-down chart and project velocity chart
  Support for release burn-down charts to show progress by iteration, and a new project velocity to show iteration velocity over time
• Troubled Task Indicator
  Tasks whose actual hours exceed their estimates are highlighted in red (change from previous behavior).
• Customizable List Views
  Users can select which columns are displayed for story, task and test case list views and their relative widths.
• Move Tasks and Test Cases
  Tasks and test cases can now be moved from their original story to another.
• Task and Test Case File Attachments
  Users can now attach files to both tasks and test cases in addition to stories
• Customizable Branding
  Users can specify a custom header to brand the application for their company

Version 2.1 - April 2006

• New Release Plan view
  View scheduled stories for a release, with the estimated effort subtotaled by topic or iteration. Good for high-level release planning.  
• Email Notification Support
  Users are automatically notified by email when a story is added or changed (or a file or comment is added). This can be set as a preference in the user options.
• Enhanced Test Reporting
  Test results can now be linked to a target iteration to enable regression test reporting. The main test case view can be filtered by results for a specific iteration.
• Export to Word (Rich Text Format)
  Stories, release plans, task lists, and test reports can now be exported to RTF (in addition to Excel).
• Miscellaneous
  Several minor bugs were fixed, including an IE 6.0 problem with downloading attachements. The Story and Task lists now display a sortable Last Updated column - this should help with quickly seeing what's changed recently.

Version 2.0 - December 2005

• Support for Test Case Management
  A story can now have Test Cases associated with it. Tests can be run and their results recorded. A global list is also available for selecting and reporting on test status.
• New Iteration Burn-Down Chart
  The chart shows both hours remaining and hours completed per day for the iteration. Available from a new Metrics menu on the Iteration Status view.
• Story Continuation
  A story can now be continued in another iteration. This will make a copy of the story and move all incomplete tasks to the new copy.
• Support for User Comments
  Story and task Comments can now be added from the edit screens. Comments can contain hyperlinks which are automatically parsed. You can use this feature to link to external systems such as bug trackers, as well as link to items within ExtremePlanner.
• Bulk Scheduling
  Stories can now be scheduled in bulk for a release and/or iteration. A new Schedule feature is availabel from the story list page.
• Miscellaneous
  Iteration Status view now displays iteration statistics at the top, and current test status for each story. Users now have an option to limit the scope of releases and iterations that are shown.