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Real-Time Collaboration & Persona Management: October 8th Updates for a Smoother Experience
Real-Time Collaboration & Persona Management: October 8th Updates for a Smoother Experience
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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

  • User Persona

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

  • Download Persona

    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 including 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.

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