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tinyPM 1.2 has been released. This release contains a number of features, and I am happy to say that there are first features picked from our feedback forum http://feedback.tinypm.com The forum works really great and we are awaiting your next ideas and votes.

Ok, let’s see what’s new in tinyPM:

Tasks and stories versioning

If you work with tinyPM, you already know how useful the history log is. Now we’ve added the versions view in which you can compare side-by-side versions of the chosen task or story, you can see who did the change and what exactly was changed. This view can be accessed from the history page or from the task/story card (the extended one).

 

Acceptance view

Now in tinyPM you can define a person for each user story, who is responsible for functional acceptance of it. Depending on the project type, this person may be a customer, product owner, product manager or domain expert. When all tasks are completed, the story is ready for acceptance and can be accepted with one click. In case the implementation doesn’t meet the functional requirements, you can reject it but you have to provide a reason of the
rejection. That information will occur as a new task for the development team. Once the task is done, the story is ready for acceptance again.

 

User story owner

Additionally, for each story you can define its owner This option is helpful in bigger projects, where a contact person or responsible person should be visible.

User stories export as CSV

With this option we wanted to allow for downloading of list of stories (filtered with a tag) and put it, for example, into Excel.

Timezones support

Now tinyPM supports globally distributed work. In My account you can set up your time zone and see all dates in your local time, even if tinyPM is installed on a server in a different part of the world.

 

Dashboard

My projects section is reorganized and improved. We also have added ‘My stories’ section where you can see stories and tasks you are working on. It provides a short summary, just for a notion of the current status. This is really useful when you work on several projects at the same time, because you have information in one place.

Backlog

We’ve added a big visible box presenting the current project state. Each time you access the backlog, you see how many points are pending, in progress, completed.

Customizable logo

You can upload your logo and it will replace the default tinyPM logo in the main view.

Archived projects

When a project is completed it shouldn’t appear with our current projects. In tinyPM 1.2 you can make the project inactive.

Tags: features, tinyPM

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