Agilefant

RELEASE NOTES

11.12.2007



Current key functionality includes:

+ backlog management for product, project and iteration levels

+ backlog items can easily be moved between backlogs

+ backlog items can be split into individually tracked tasks when needed

+ backlog items and tasks can have estimates for effort left; the original effort estimate is also recorded

+ for each level (product/project/iteration), the total effort left in the backlog is displayed

+ for iteration level backlogs, a burndown graph displaying the the development velocity is shown

+ Daily Work lists your current work according to project priorities

+ Project Portfolio allows prioritisation of projects

+ mass prioritisation of backlog items



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.3.2

+ Daily Work view refined

+ Development Portfolio renamed to Project Portfolio and view refined

+ Renamed backlog items' and tasks' status to state

+ Added new state: pending (color: blue)

+ Bulk prioritization of backlog items added

+ Error messages refined

+ Lots of small improvements on GUI

+ Added missing delete confirmation dialogs



CHANGES FROM AGILEFANT 1.3.1

+ Tasks can be transformed to backlog items

+ Backlog item and task status colors were changed to more intuitive

+ Added 'forgot my password' functionality 

+ Added 'Save & Close' and 'Create & Close' buttons to Iteration Goal

edit page

+ Some task functionality removed for clarity: Effort estimate, 

assignment and priority is now removed

+ Added Development Portfolio view with project prioritizing feature

+ Daily Work view added with 'Work in progress' and 'On going iterations'

divisions, it's also possible to view other users Daily Work

+ QuickEdit (i.e. drop-down form appears when status text is clicked) 

for backlog item effort left and status is now available

+ Added JMeter and JChav targets to ant build script. These are needed 

for performance testing. More information about performance testing is 

found from the wiki. TestUtility class added for testing purposes.



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