We Added Support For Multi-Board Projects

TLDR;

This is the second of two concurrent releases aimed at shipping a new architecture in order to support assigning multiple boards to a single project.

Our product leader, Bill, compared this sprint to "expanding the bellows" of an accordion. It's a (strange) but accurate metaphor that captures how we paid off some technical debt and shipped customer feedback-driven items over these last few releases, giving us a bit of slack to shift away from a "run" or "maintain" cycle and back to a "build" cycle.

What's New?

• Multi-board architecture. Users now have the ability to associate more than one active board per project in configuration. Now, users can see key stats like throughput, lead time, and velocity at the project level and at the board level. Customers who run their dev, design and QA on different boards may now rejoice!

• Chart Export. We now support chart export to PNG for Sprint Analysis charts (burnup, burndown, cumulative flow). This was in response to multiple customers wanting an easy way to get a clean chart image to include in presentations outside of Bloomfilter.

Enhancements

• Added hover-state text to navigation elements. We received feedback that users had trouble understanding what icons represented when using the navigation menu in collapsed mode. We added hover state text to make it easier for the user to discern.
• Sprint Day 0 is now plotted on charts to represent sprint starting point. Previously our sprint charts did not plot a point on the charts at the start of the sprint. It made it look like nothing was happening on the chart. Now users can see where they are starting from when the sprint begins.
• Renamed “Available Work Days” metric to “Work Days Planned” for clarity. The label on this metric caused universal confusion. It is now labeled “Work Days Planned” and includes sub-text that further describes what it means to plan work (backlog items are ready for development).\

• Trimmed project name labels on the History screen. Without wrapping, some users experienced overlapping text horizontally when scrolling through their sprint history. The screen now wraps at a defined character limit to address this.
• Added a spinning indicator for loading interactions. The user did not see any instant feedback in instances where, after making a selection, a short delay would occur while the system was processing the user’s request. We added a spinning animation to indicate “loading” is taking place.
• Division of Cost chart heading now reflects the selected project. Users now see the title of their selected project instead of a generic “Division of Cost” title for the table.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Performance Score calculation load flickered an “F” grade before loading the calculated score. This was due to the calculation beginning at a 0 value on initial load.
• Fixed an issue where the Work Days Planned calculation was reporting deeper backlogs than it should have.