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As a result, certain behaviors in Agile Hive will be updated:
‘Assigned PIs’ Custom Field: Initially intended for use only with Objective and Risk issues, this restriction will be removed. As a result, all types of issues (excluding Milestones) at both the ART and Team levels can be assigned to specific PIs by simply setting a single field value.
‘Assigned Teams’ Custom Field: This new field will allow for the explicit assignment of any issue at both the ART and Team levels (excluding Milestones) to one or more specific Teams. As a result, by combining the 'Assigned PIs' and 'Assigned Teams' fields, only the Feature swimlanes for the relevant Teams in the assigned PIs will appear on the Team Planning Boards, helping to declutter the boards by removing irrelevant swimlanes.
Disconnect the ART Roadmap from the Team Planning Boards: With the changes to the two Custom Fields described above in place, the ART Roadmap is no longer needed to determine which Features are displayed as swimlanes on the boards of Teams within the ART. Going forward, the ART Roadmap will be treated as a separate entity, similar to how the roadmaps are handled at the Portfolio and Large Solution layers.
Add ART Features to a Team’s PI plan: On Team Planning Boards, each Team will be able to add ART-level Features to their PI plan by simply dragging and dropping them onto the board. In the background, Agile Hive will automatically update the ‘Assigned PIs’ and ‘Assigned Teams’ Custom Fields of those issues, ensuring a smooth and effortless workflow for the end user.
Calculation of ‘PI Involvement’ field: When determining the PIs in which Teams are actively working on a Feature, Agile Hive will only consider the Teams' actual state of planning, based on the planned Team-level issues. The ‘PI Involvement’ field will no longer reflect issues planned in the ART Roadmap.
This results in two conditions that determine whether or not an ART-level Feature is being displayed as swimlane in a Team’s planning board:
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Any Feature that already has child issues planned for a specific Iteration within any of the Teams in the ART will not be affected, as it will still appear on the Team’s board based on its current planning state. This also means that PIs already in a
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‘Improved planning’ preview in Team Planning Boards
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To further ease the transition from the current planning system to the new method, you now have the option to manually switch to the enhanced planning mode (please note that this feature is still in
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When the 'Improved Planning' mode is activated, it severs the link between the Team Planning Board and the ART-level Roadmap. Consequently, only those ART Feature swimlanes that are tagged with specific values for the 'Assigned Teams' and 'Assigned PIs' Custom Fields will be displayed on the Team Planning Board.
This preview allows users to familiarize themselves with the updated behavior of ART-level Features on the Team Planning Board, as outlined in bullet points 1 to 3 under The new way of planning on this page. Once the full functionality of the new planning mode is ready, we will upgrade the 'Improved planning' preview to become one of the core features of the Team Planning Board.
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Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/ahc-newartplanning2025
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