BizDock Releases summary

This page shows the highlights of the major BizDock Releases.

See all the content of a release by reading the BizDock Release Notes.

Current planned date : soon

• Initiative registers: Split risks and issues custom attributes and types
• Initiative events: Add read only attribute for system events
• Roadmap capacity table: Change year selector to month selector setting the first column as starting month
• Add tooltips throughout the application

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Current planned date : 16.01.2018

• Custom attributes: New scriptable type of custom attributes
• Governance: Addition of flexible life cycle process type with additional milestones
• Governance: Configure the display style for milestones name
• Dropdown lists: Enhance selectors for multi valued selectors

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Current planned date : 17.10.2017

• Financial, Resources and Timesheets: Add total row at the bottom of tables with summable numeric values
• Governance: Delete a milestone approval request
• Governance: Delete a milestone decision
• Planning / Resources: Add statuses on allocation requests
• Planning / Resources: Manage monthly allocation for generic requests
• Roadmap / Capacity table: View month details by initiative in Org Unit tab
• Dropdown lists: Enhance selectors for actors, org units, packages, …
• Table filters: Add a “Clear” action that reinitialize the table filters to the default view

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Current planned date : 04.07.2017

• Initiative resources: Add monthly allocations for employees on an initiative
• Initiative resources: Make all tables in the page sortable and filterable
• Initiative documents: Add a page to manage all the documents associated to an initiative
• Initiative overview: Add new KPIs for budget and forecast with OPEX/CAPEX details
• Roadmap: Add a view by employee in the capacity table
• User management: Add a permission to edit an initiative as portfolio stakeholder
• Reporting: Add budget forecast in both org unit allocations reports

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Current planned date : 28.03.2017

• Reporting: Adding support for RTF format
• Event Listener: Adding new capabilities for the Event Listener plugin
• User management: Adding user last login date in the user management page
• Roadmap: Adding the initiative start date and end date in the roadmap view based on the current planning

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Release date : 29.11.2016

• Reporting: Adding a new Users logon report
• Search update: Initiative are selected by default, wild characters are no more mandatory, active elements can be filtered
• Cockpit: Split of the “My active initiatives” widget and adding a new widget “Late planned milestones”
• Risks & Issues: Ability to delete a risk or an issue after creation.
• Roadmap: Adding information regarding milestones (last planned date) and initiatives (start date and end date)
• Organizational Unit: Adding confirm button in “Allocation requests” tab * Other minor enhancements and bug fixes

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Release date : 18.08.2016

• Project events tracker
• Centralized document management interface
• Ability to lock the governance id (read-only mode)
• Ability to export a data backup

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Release date : 16.03.2016

• Multi-currency management
• Add many REST API to query BizDock data
• New Timesheet loader to import timesheet data from an external system
• Roadmap improvements: display financial data

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Release date : 04.02.2016

• Effort-based budget and forecast
• Replacement of the icons set (Glyphicons) with a new one (Font awesome)
• Cockpit / Home page merge
• BizDock Notification handler / Scheduled script improvements (context sharing, object persistence)
• Adding an allocation (Employee or Org Unit) automatically add it as Stakeholder or Delivery Unit
• Governance: delete a milestone approval request

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Release date : 17.12.2015

• Merge Release and Initiative
• Deliverable management
• Import / export plugin configuration
• New Notification Plugin

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Release date: 05.11.2015

• Planning package type
• Save & share filters
• Simplified Initiative creation process
• Modify the native BizDock translations
• Conditional rule for displaying custom attributes
• Manage all the planning packages at a single page

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Release date: 29.09.2015

Bug fixes release.

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Release date: 23.09.2015

• Partner data syndication
• Top menu re-design
• Release KPI “Progress”
• Redmine plugin improvement
• Notification by email instead of BizDock internal Notifcations

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Release date: 30.07.2015

• A new Architecture module is available to manage the continuous integration
• Improvements of the resources allocations' system
• Possibility to add dependencies between the Initiatives
• Create custom KPI directly from the BizDock interface

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Release date: 04.06.2015

• REST API
• Milestone approval's improvements
• Delete notifications by bulk
• New report to extract time sheets data by project

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Release date: 30.04.2015

• Roadmap simulator with team capacities overview
• New BizDock Org Unit loader plugin
• Enhanced BizDock Financial Integration plugin
• New report to extract time sheets data by period
• Link a Work Order to a Planning Package as for Resources to allow a full overview of the Package

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Release date: 19.03.2015

• Milestones trend: Powerful table that shows the evolution of the resources (budget, allocations…) and planning across the approbation of Milestones
• Allocation of non-project Activities
• Add a new generic allocation mechanism on top of Org unit: by Competency
• A innovative mechanism to follow up the progress of an initiative based on the Planning Packages completion vs baseline
• A Gantt chart that covers the overall Initiative planning is now available, it includes the Phases, the Milestones, the Packages, the Releases and the Iterations
• The document management system has been improved in order to offer the capability to attach a document as a link
• (Administration) Custom attributes management: Configure and manage your custom attributes according to your business case
• (Administration) Add, edit and delete the Roles

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Release date: 05.02.2015

• Release management: create, edit and remove releases. It's also possible to subscribe an initiative to them.
• Iterations & Burndown: the list of iterations and the corresponding burndown chart are available in the initiative's cockpit.
• Redmine plugin: the Redmine target versions are now synchronized as iterations in BizDock.
• Events table (for an initiative): the table is now sortable and filterable. It's also possible to export it as an Excel file.
• Requirements improvement: a new “In scope” attribute is available, and it's possible to assign a requirement to a release.
• Navigation: the main menu and the initiative sidebar have been improved to facilitate the navigation.
• Cockpit: the “Budget buckets” and the “Releases” managed by the sign-in user are now available in his cockpit.
• (Administration) Life cycle process management: create, edit and remove the life cycle processes, including milestones and phases.
• (Administration) New custom attribute types: the “Link” (to associate an external URL to any entry) and the “Multi-value list”.

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Release date: 16.12.2014

• Help tour: some help tours has been added in order to facilitate the understanding of BizDock
• (Administration) Propose Employee creation after User creation
• (Administration) Manage requirements' reference data

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Release date: 04.12.2014

• Home page: see directly the unread notifications and last initiatives (filter by access rights)
• KPI: new sets of KPIs (for Initiative and Portfolio), now available on the Roadmap and with trend analysis
• Team management: see your subordinates and team allocations directly from the Cockpit or their ID cards
• Requirement management (via Redmine Plugin): get KPIs about your User Stories and Defects directly in BizDock
• Reporting: new standard reports available
• Planning Package: add some pre-defined Planning Packages by Group
• (Administration) Manage BizDock reference data (initiative type, portfolio type, stakeholders…)
• (Administration) Access to the file exchange zone via the user interface

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Release date: 03.10.2014

• Timesheet: a time sheeting system to allow employees to book time against Initiatives.
• Planning package: possibility to configure packages against Initiatives.
• Reporting: improvement of the reporting system in order to generate also PDF and CSV files (more EXCEL).
• Help: creation of the help pages for the BizDock application.
• (Administration) associate permissions to role.
• (Administration) Plugin Manager with first Plugins

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Release date: 25.08.2014

• Reporting module (with access rights administration)
• Full width enhanced layout
• Improved notification mechanism and internal message
• Initiative and Portfolio dashboard
• Event log to capture Initiative decisions and informations
• Contextual help for each screen
• (Administration) Audit log
• (Administration) Management of system preferences (like custom logo)