As we wrap up one other eventful quarter at ProductPlan, we’re delighted to share our newest improvements and offer you a glimpse of what’s on the horizon. Our Q3 releases have targeted on enhancing strategic alignment, bettering integrations and introducing new options to streamline your product administration workflow. Let’s dive into the highlights and discover how these updates will remodel your product administration expertise.
Strengthening Strategic Alignment
On the coronary heart of our Q3 releases is a collection of highly effective technique enhancements designed to align your whole group round key targets. Cascading OKRs is a cornerstone of this launch. It’s a game-changing characteristic that means that you can join targets all through your group. This implies now you can seamlessly hyperlink company-wide targets to team-specific targets, guaranteeing each stage of your group is working in concord in direction of the identical overarching imaginative and prescient.
Complementing this characteristic, we’ve additionally launched the flexibility to attach roadmap gadgets to a number of targets within the Technique module. This enhancement offers a extra nuanced and correct illustration of how your crew’s work helps numerous strategic targets. By providing a clearer image of every work merchandise’s strategic significance, you’ll be able to higher align crew efforts with firm targets, resulting in extra targeted and impactful product improvement.
To tie all of it collectively, we’ve unveiled our new Strategic Portfolio visualization. This complete view brings collectively targets, alternatives and roadmap gadgets in a unified timeline. Think about with the ability to see your high-level targets, discovery alternatives and top-level roadmap gadgets multi functional place – that’s the ability of the Strategic Portfolio. This birds-eye view enhances strategic insights, facilitates higher communication of initiatives and helps you rapidly establish gaps or dangers in your strategic planning.
Customization and Flexibility
We perceive that each product crew has particular wants, which is why we’ve launched multi-select customized fields at each the account and crew ranges. These versatile fields act as a hybrid between customized dropdown fields and tags. The objective right here is to assist additional standardization and group of data throughout your roadmaps and portfolios. Whether or not you’re an Account Admin or a Group Admin, you now have the ability to create fields that completely suit your workflow and knowledge structure.
Seamless Integrations and Actual-time Updates
In in the present day’s interconnected digital ecosystem, easy integrations are essential. That’s why we’ve expanded our integration capabilities in Q3. We now assist Microsoft Entra as an authentication methodology. This lets you use your present Entra ID to grant our utility entry to your Azure DevOps occasion. This addition streamlines your workflow and enhances safety by leveraging your present authentication infrastructure.
We’ve additionally launched webhooks, opening up new prospects for real-time communication between ProductPlan and your different platforms. Targeted on bar occasions similar to creation, updates and deletions, webhooks permit you to arrange a number of subscriptions to maintain your programs in good sync. This characteristic is on the market to our Skilled and Enterprise clients, providing unprecedented real-time integration capabilities.
API Enhancements for Energy Customers
For our energy customers who leverage our API, we’ve considerably expanded its capabilities. Now you can archive Goals and replace their threat standing by way of API endpoints. We’ve additionally added the flexibility to park and unpark particular person bars on a roadmap; create and delete connections between bars and hyperlinks, and look at detailed counts of kid bars, hyperlinks, connections and feedback related to a bar. You can too assign bars to a father or mother container, create/delete milestones and create/replace lanes by way of this enhancement. These enhancements offer you much more programmatic management over your ProductPlan knowledge, enabling complicated integrations and automations.
Wanting Forward to This autumn
As we glance in direction of the ultimate quarter of the 12 months, we’re excited in regards to the improvements on the horizon. Our crew is difficult at work on the subsequent section of Strategic Portfolio, which can deliver much more readability and perception to your product planning. We’re additionally making ready for enhanced collaboration options that may make teamwork smoother and extra environment friendly than ever earlier than.
We’re engaged on thought seize updates, which can enable you to higher handle and prioritize incoming product concepts.
For our enterprise clients, we’re dedicated to supplying you with extra flexibility in managing totally different levels of your product improvement course of. And looking out additional forward, we’re within the planning levels for an Alternatives Enterprise Case characteristic, which can enable you to higher consider and prioritize new product alternatives.
These upcoming options are designed to additional improve your capacity to plan, talk and execute your product technique successfully. As at all times, we’re dedicated to repeatedly bettering ProductPlan to fulfill your evolving wants, and we eagerly anticipate bringing these enhancements to you within the coming months.
Keep tuned for extra updates, and right here’s to a different quarter of profitable product administration!
