Dependencies are a crucial part of your PI/Big room planning and execution. As an RTE or middle management team member, you often face challenges of going through 10's and sometimes 100's of dependencies captured during PI planning.
Kendis gives great capabilities to capture dependencies in a simple and easy way. However, there are customers who create dependencies links in their agile tools e.g., Jira or AzureDevOps. So far Kendis is able to visualize those dependencies as lines, however, it wasn't possible to manage those dependencies and to be able to edit further details to provide better context.
A lot of work by the Kendis teams in the last few months was put into making the whole experience seamless, whether you create dependency from Kendis or in your agile tool
Compare to the older view, while creating a new dependency now you can
Ability to set the arrow direction
Dependencies list view offer now more filters, sorting, and other options
While looking at the dependencies of an individual feature the view shows the nice separation of feature and story level dependencies. This is a major enhancement compared to the earlier version.
Earlier at Jira boards, there was only Resolved and Open dependency (Red and Green), but with this release, there are more colors to provide better visualization of the lines. For example, the default color of dependency is grey and it turns red only when it has missed its due date or sprint where it was supposed to be done.
Dependency links created in your agile tool (Jira, AzureDevOps) are shown automatically at Kendis as lines in blue color.
Earlier it wasn't possible to edit the "blue lines" dependencies, however, with this release, if a dependency is created in Jira/AzureDevOps, you are able to edit and start treating this dependency like a Kendis dependency.
In Smart Reports, now the dependencies created in Jira/AzureDevOps will also be shown as relationships between teams.
Under the Analytics option, there are 2 small but useful enhancements are added
Delivery sprint and team (Phoenix value) is visible at the Delivery by Features view
Following are improvements and bug fixes in other areas of Kendis
The board will lock while in the process of “State switching” and “Board Rescyn” to avoid multiple users starting the process at exactly the same time.
Edit Board Settings → Additional Settings Save option is renamed to “Save & Close”
Fix for the Risks saving issue, while pasting contents from other tools with rich-text
Sprint Status can now be updated manually, more details at https://help.kendis.io/en/articles/5981527-how-to-update-jira-sprint-status