Kendis latest release has gone live on April 22, 2020. With this release customers can use interactive risk management during their PIs and after it.
In this release
Risks Management
Navigation enhancements
Updated Resync Experience for Azure Boards
Search at User Directory and Boards
Misc improvements
1) Risk Management
We are excited to bring a complete experience to manage risks effectively at Kendis.
With Kendis Risk Management Module you can
Create multiple risk registers
Set risk severity level, owner and target resolution dates
Link risks to your boards at Kendis
Link features and stories to the risks
Have conversation and tag users to track progress
Email notifications for the updates
More details about risk management is available at this link
Create Risk View
Risks List View
2) Navigation Improvements
With this release update, there is a consolidated view for
Board View (Alicanto, Griffin, Phoenix), if you are not familiar check this article.
Dependencies on/off toggle
Board Zoom options.
Board states are more visible now under "Board Settings", user can see what are the previous states that are ready only and should only be used for the reference.
3) Resync Experience at Azure Board
Resync board is an important operation, it updates the query results from AzureDevOps and then compare what is already at board. Then it shows all the new features that are added to the query or the ones which have been removed. You can select the items that you want to bring into your board.
4) Other Improvements
Beside the features listed above, we have also rolled out following improvements
Search boards
Search users in the user directory
Set decimal point values for the story points at Jira board
Kendis Enterprise Release (For self-hosted customers)
This release is not yet available at Docker for customer using Kendis Enterprise (self-hosted version). These features were also made available for Kendis Enterprise customers on April 29, 2020, Dockerhub and other distributions were updated with the latest release. For more details on self-hosted, check this section.
Upcoming Releases
Kendis teams are working relentlessly for the improvements and new features, some of the upcoming features during May/June 2020 are
Enhancements at the Dependencies management and listing
More reports for tracking PI progress
Get additional fields from Jira (e.g., component, teams, etc.) and view them at Kendis cards with the ability to filter and sort.