ProductBeat Updates for June 2019
After our very encouraging Product Hunt launch, we’ve been hard at work squashing bugs, acting on the feedback from all our new users and preparing for our upcoming updates. We can’t thank you enough for all the excitement and feedback! Let’s see what we’ve been up to since the launch.
Our Roadmap page now shows the epic overview we were previously keeping under the wraps. Now you can see the progress and remaining tickets of all your active epics in one page under the Roadmap section of your board.
In the future, we’ll improve this section with better timeline and estimation features. These features are among the most requested ones, and you can be sure we’re listening.
Better invites
You can now invite all your team members by email at once. Previously you could only invite users who already had a ProductBeat account. Now if you invite a user who hasn’t signed up yet, we’ll add them to your team immediately as they join.
Note that in keeping with our spam-free design principles, we won’t spam their email even if you invite them: we know you communicate with your team members, and our Google login requires no email interaction, so we won’t ask you to deal with any emails from us.
Backlog customization
You can now skip using the Refined status on your board. While many teams benefit from separating ready-for-development tickets from the rest of the backlog, others can be bogged down by the extra layer of backlog management. To turn off this optional status, open board settings from the board options menu.
Note that you can also use the arrow buttons on the right-hand side of the backlog view to hide sections that you rarely need. Our client will remember the setting you prefer in your browser.
And to further customize the workflow, remember to use subtasks to make a detailed development plan for all new backlog items. This is a great place to keep track of the status to document all the activities of each ticket.
The smaller stuff
We also improved the guidance for anyone experiencing login-related issues. You also now see more tooltips and other UI elements to help you learn the ropes as fast as possible.
In case you have installed our web app on your mobile home screen and have experienced issues, you can now try again as we squashed a couple of issues related to our PWA mode. And if you’re on desktop, remember that you can also log in with one of our desktop apps for an even smoother experience.
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