Agilefant

RELEASE NOTES

23.10.2007



KEY FUNCTIONALITY AGILEFANT 1.3.1

+ Agilefant manages backlogs at the product, project and iteration

levels

+ Backlog items can easily be moved between backlogs

+ Backlog items can be split into individually tracked tasks when

needed

+ Every backlog item and task has estimates for effort left estimate;

the original effort estimate is also tracked

+ Numerical effort left estimates are displayed for backlogs

+ A burndown graph reflecting the development velocity is displayed

at the iteration level



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.2.2

+ Replaced the backlog Delete button with bulk delete option

+ Work estimate now takes ',' and '.' as decimal separator regardless 

of the locale settings. For example '30,5', and '30.5'.

+ Added 'Save & Close' and 'Create & Close' -buttons to editBacklogItem 

and editTask JSP-fragments.

+ Added new default priority 'undefined' for backlog items and tasks.

+ Default backlog item list sorting order changed. Orders the list by 

backlog item priority. Items with 'Done'-status are moved to the end 

of the list.

+ Added coloured statusbar for backlog items without tasks

+ 'Edit iteration' view default start and end date times are 6:00 and 

18:00, respectively.

+ Removed 'Watch this' checkbox from edit backlog-item  edit task view

+ Backlog name cell size increased

+ Changed 'Event history' to 'History' in 'Edit task' view

+ Hided id from task history table



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.2.1

+ Past and future projects & iterations are by default hidden in the

left panel; all are displayed when the respective product is selected

+ Several minor bugs fixed

+ Some minor usability improvements done

+ Agilefant is being developed and tested on Mozilla Firefox only



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.2.0

+ Added xlan/xercses libraries (previously distributed with Tomcat)

to the distribution package to further simplify the installation



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.0

+ Hour reporting, daily work and development portfolio views have

been hidden

due to immature functionality

+ User interface is cleaner, simpler and unified through the system.

+ Backlogs are now easily accessible through a hierarchical backlog

list (the left panel)

+ Data input and workflow have been streamlined

+ Terminology has been unified and simplified

+ Simple installation process using a WAR-file

+ Initial adoption of the system is guided