Skip to main content
8th October, 2024
Olivia avatar
Written by Olivia
Updated this week


This sprint focused on enhancing the user experience across various modules, implementing real-time collaborative features, and improving the overall performance of our infrastructure.

Key Achievements

- Successfully integrated real-time collaboration features in the documentation tool, allowing for seamless edits among multiple users.


- Migrated all AWS services to Graviton computers, resulting in enhanced performance and reduced costs.


- Delivered a comprehensive events and product management page, improving user engagement and management capabilities.


- Established efficient communication channels within the platform through Intercom integration, along with importing help articles for better user support.

Epics/Features Interface Updates

Enhanced Work Items Dropdown:

- In the Solution Detail page under the children’s tab, the dropdown, which previously only included Experiments, has now been expanded to include Epics/Features alongside Experiments, providing a more comprehensive selection for managing work items.


Modified Epics/Features Dropdown:

- Capitalized and pluralized the “Epic” option to “Epics.”


Removed Jira Option:

- The Jira option was removed from the “More Options” menu in the Epics/Features table under the solution’s children tab.

Kanban View Addition

- Added a Kanban view to the Solution Detail page under the children’s tab, enabling users to visualize and manage work items more effectively.

Story Map Bug Fixes

- Addressed UI bug fixes related to improved functionality and user experience.


- Clicking on the energy icon now converts the card to an Epic in the story map user step.

- Users can create a new feature directly from the User Step by clicking the “+New Feature” button.

Persona Module Updates


- Removed the Persona section from the objective detail page UI and quick view to streamline the user experience and enhance focus on key features.


- Implemented robust download functionality for attachments in the Persona module, ensuring users can seamlessly download files even after refreshing the page, improving usability and efficiency.


- UI Fixes for Custom Fields: Resolved issues with the user interface of custom fields, enhancing overall usability and consistency.


- Prevented Duplicate Fields: Fixed a bug that allowed users to add the same field multiple times, ensuring data integrity and user experience.

- Field Removal Behavior: Corrected the issue where a removed field would only disappear after a page refresh, ensuring immediate visual feedback for users when fields are deleted.

Story Map Full-Screen View

- Added a feature to expand the story map to a full-screen view by clicking on the icon in the top-right corner.

Documentation Module Navigation

- Added a scrollbar to the left navigation pane in the Documentation module for better navigation.

Persona Inheritance

- Implemented the ability to inherit personas from Opportunity to Solution, as well as its associated Epics and Features, ensuring consistency in persona application.


- Established inheritance of personas from Solution to its Epics and Features, maintaining a hierarchical connection between them.

- When a persona is removed from a parent Opportunity or Solution, it will also be removed from its children, ensuring data consistency throughout the hierarchy.

- Added functionality so that personas added to children do not affect the parent, allowing for more granular control of persona management.

Documentation Tool Updates

- Implemented real-time updates in the documentation tool using Y.js, which works seamlessly with the block editor for collaborative editing.

- Integrated Hocus Pocus for efficient communication between collaborators, enhancing collaborative efforts during document editing.

- Set up Caddy as a reverse proxy for accessing the Hocus Pocus server hosted on AWS, improving server management and accessibility.

- Added a scrollbar to the left navigation pane in the Documentation module for better navigation.

Document History Revisions

We’ve introduced the ability to view the history of your documents! You can now:


- Track changes made over time.

- View and compare different versions of the document.

- Restore previous versions if needed.

AWS Services Migration

- Migrated all AWS services to Graviton computers, enhancing performance while reducing costs.

- Services migrated include EC2 and LightSail instances for QA have been removed to streamline operations.

Frontend Enhancements

- Set up Firebase hosting for the frontend website, improving deployment and performance.


- Established Intercom integration and imported WordPress help articles into the platform, providing users with accessible support resources.

Product Management Updates


- Delivered the events and product management page, along with identified issues, improving user management capabilities.

Environment Variable Management

- Moved all environment variables from EC2 to AWS Secrets Manager, enhancing security and management of sensitive information.

Did this answer your question?