Team growth, an NYC conference, and product enhancements — this sprint had it all

TL;DR

‍Sprint 18 was a whirlwind of team growth and product enhancements. We onboarded new team members, held a successful All-Hands in Akron, and exhibited at the New York Product Conference. On the product side, we introduced user-friendly features, improved visual representation, and enhanced security measures.

Sprint goal

Sprint 18 was unique in that most of our focus was outside the product. We welcomed two new developers, a customer success leader, a design leader, and our very first company intern. The team also met for a three-day All-Hands in Akron and showcased Bloomfilter at the New York Product Conference (Product Collective).

What’s new

Customer facing

• We implemented failure screens for 500 (server error) and 404 (file not found) errors, and provided self-service assistance to users encountering these common web application issues.
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• Non-working days now have visual representation on charts. Previously, all days on Bloomfilter looked the same, which were misleading and made progress appear flat. We added a light gray shade (see 04/01 through 04/03) to make users aware of non-working and closed-office days.

Non-customer facing

• We upgraded Bloomfilter to Mantine 6.0, a key tool we use to manage our React library. This upgrade gives us more design flexibility as we gear up for our next series of data visualizations and user interactions.

Updates

Customer facing

• We added labels to the axes and legends to our Burn charts (for current and historical sprints). Now, users have more control over which elements appear in the charts.

Non-customer facing

• We tightened our security defenses to further protect against attacks via the “Forgot Password?” experiences.

What we fixed

• We improved the user experience when navigating between Jira boards for projects on Bloomfilter. Users are now presented with an alphabetical listing of all project boards integrated with Bloomfilter, removing the previous dead-end experience.
• Log-in functionality is now working for Safari browsers.

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