Year 2022

20th December 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Whenever a Jira issue is linked as a key result or as a KR action, it is possible to view its description on the browse OKRs screen in the ‘description’ column. This is the same column where descriptions of respective objectives & key results are displayed from UpRaise.

• It is now possible to associate custom user picker fields (single & multi-select) with user profiles within UpRaise company directory. e.g. Mentor/Mentee pair can be added with the introduction of a single select custom profile attribute.

• The ability to archive objective cycles is now live. With this action, you can easily ‘stove away’ older OKRs if they do not need to be referred to anymore. This is quite similar to how you would ‘archive’ a project in Jira.

🐞​ Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

08th December 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Duplicate rows are getting inserted in the form response table in some cases, now fixed

07th December 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Introduced an ability to Maintain a range in Metric type KRs.

• Continuous feedback trends report is now available for users with ‘Continuous feedback’ → ‘View’ permission set to ‘Always’

• Feedback summary page enhancements

  • Improved the user experience for tags chart to allow side-by-side comparison

  • We also added a dropdown (…) to allow users to hide the Received or Given columns in the chart

• Labels chart on Feedback summary page now shows labels for given feedback as well

• Now visibility is set to Private by default while creating new OKR views

• History is now displayed for OKR custom fields.

🐞​ Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

21st November 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• UpRaise admins & super admins can now enable/disable email notifications at the instance level

• UI changes on objective cycle tab

• Custom fields for Objectives & Key results have arrived. While in Beta, we are limiting the number of custom fields to 5 & will expand it later on. It is also possible to use the filters on these custom fields.

• There is now a refresh action available on Objectives & Key results to immediately recalculate progress rather than wait for the periodic job updates.

  • On Brows OKRs page >> click on Actions >> Refresh

• Objective & KR titles are now wrapped onto the next line to mimic how Jira issue titles behave.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

31st October 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• New feedback suggestions feature is now available to encourage interaction among different stakeholders.

• Feedback summary page revamped to provide more insightful & actionable information.

• UI enhancements in Glance view of Jira issue detail page

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

17th October 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• We are introducing filters for custom user profile attributes, this feature will now pave way to User segments.

🐞 Bug fixes

• In feedback visibility, deleted teams were showing up, fixed

• Fixed the exception that users were getting on form save action

• An unknown error fixed that was occurring on selection of multiple forms under the aggregate report

• Other minor bug fixes

30th September 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Explorer view now shows two additional columns i.e. ID and Teams to make OKR consumption easier

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

15th September 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Forms now save the responses every few seconds if the system detects any changes. This improves the experience since there were a few instances when users lost their responses due to timeouts.

• App now allows you to set up reminder frequency while creating the KR.

• Shared OKR views can now be managed by users that have the ‘Manage OKRs’ permission. This allows for decluttering of views in case they balloon up to a large number over a period of time.

• Now it is possible to exchange Team member & Reviewer while creating/editing a distribution.

• Progress charts on Objective & KR details pages are now configurable. Some customers found the progress charts a little too confusing, so we have made them configurable. By default, these charts will be visible though.

• New ‘Alignment’ filter introduced to surface objectives that are of interest such as objectives with no alignments or objectives that only receive contributions from other objectives & so on.

• It is now possible to refresh progress percentage directly from the Objective & KR detail pages.

  • The refresh button/icon appears in the below cases -

    • If objectives progress is dependent on alignments

    • If the objective has KRs with automatic progress calculations

  • The refresh icon/button is not displayed in the below case -

    • If the Objective has no alignments or its progress calculation is manual (direct punch in on objective or all KR with manual progress)

• Earlier, we had introduced an Auto saving function for the forms. As and enhancement, we have added a message on the forms after autosaving.

  • Message - The form will get saved as a draft automatically when you make any changes.

  • Above message will make it clear that the changes are saved.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

04th August 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective progress is not getting updated immediately when KR is added/deleted

03rd August 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Similar to how metric type KR’s progress can be linked to other metric KRs, the same feature is available for To Do type of KRs as well.

• Brought in additional visibility configurations for OKRs to allow hiding of ‘All users’ option completely.

• Introducing ‘Recent activity’ section for OKRs to keep an eye on ongoing activity on OKRs summary page.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

14th July 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• UpRaise top was menu getting displayed to users not added in UpRaise even when access setting is saved as group based.

• Group-based access issue related issue with respect to user roles fixed

11th July 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to create your own custom roles has landed. With the existing capabilities around flexible permissions, this just completes our entire roles & permissions feature

• Ability to navigate back from the objective detail page is introduced with 'Browse OKRs' link for quick navigation

• To Do & Metric type of KRs are now configurable. You can check the one that your team needs to use or keep both of them checked

• We do not show inactive/deleted users or teams in the default search results anywhere. However, these objects will show up in suggestions when you start typing in their names

• Users from group/s that are ‘granted UpRaise access’ are automatically synced to the Company directory. Before, this was limited to Jira group/s that are synced to teams in the Company directory

• We have introduced ‘extended search’ within the progress calculation configurations to allow for a KR better search experience for those who need it

• Ability to edit and delete custom roles is now added

• Improvements in roles/permissions interface

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

06th July 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixed related to UpRaise server to cloud migration

01st June 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• The side navigation-related UI issues fixed

31st May 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

03rd May 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Customizable UpRaise dashboards are here

  • The same set of dashboard gadgets will be available here as well as on Jira dashboard

• ​One-click one-level expand is now available for the OKR explorer and hierarchy views

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

21st April 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Now objective level grades are calculated as weighted average against the earlier formula of simple average. This means the weight against KRs impacts not just the progress % but the grades as well.

• New feedback permissions were introduced to implicitly allow direct & indirect managers to view the feedback even if not explicitly shared.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

12th April 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Users were not getting redirected to the roadmap portal properly via icon from the left menu, fixed.

05th April 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to add/edit/delete comments on Team member & Reviewer type of forms, once distributed. Soon we will make this possible on other base templates as well.

29th March 2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

15th March 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• UpRaise panel on the issue details page is relocated to the right-hand sidebar.

• Review forms UI is a bit cleaned up for further UX enhancements.

• Similar to user history, we are now showing the team history on the team profile page.

• User profile pages now have an additional tab to show forms the user is involved in. Helps in finding the relevant information quickly.

• OKR progress chart dashboard gadget is now available. We are starting to make it possible to have customized dashboards based on UpRaise data.

• Support for quarterly KR reminders is here. Additionally, you can control the default KR reminder frequency as an UpRaise admin.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

16th February 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Jira dashboard gadget for showing OKRs data in UpRaise in the form of a pie chart is here. It is super flexible and allows for the grouping of OKRs in a view based on a bunch of different attributes.

• Clone action is now extended to allow for cloning of progress calculation logic that we have just introduced.

• It is now possible to export 360 template responses in an excel sheet.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

28th January 2022

🎁 Enhancements

• Any changes to a team in the UpRaise company directory are now stored in the database. This will make it easy to keep track of updates similar to the user profile attributes.

• We are now storing the KR progress in the database instead of calculating it on the fly. This makes it easier for you to filter the OKRs based on progress percentage. Earlier, it was only the Objectives that were returned based on progress percentage filter.

• We are making progress automation a central concept in the OKRs module. Thus, we have brought the progress calculation configurations to the fore on the create/edit key result pop-up itself. We plan to bring in some more automation-related options in the next few weeks.

• Estonian language translations correction done

• To allow reordering when there are more than 5 key results, we are now displaying a Show All toggle on the objective details page.

• Team type value, if not empty, is now being displayed at all places wherever team name is displayed. This makes it easier for end users to see what type of ‘team’ they are dealing with.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Now you can export additional information about users involved in continuous feedback. This can help you map the users to different attributes and come out with cohort-specific reporting.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes