ValueEdge Strategy enables you to connect your corporate strategy with actionable Agile initiatives. Epics that you create in ValueEdge Agile are now synchronized with ValueEdge Strategy.

For details on epics, see Build the product backlog. For details on ValueEdge Strategy, look up the new Portfolio & Strategy help center.

Using a Developer license, you can now perform a manual run of a BDD scenario. For details on working with BDD, see Create and run BDD scenarios.

You can now filter the dashboard data by setting a date range. This option is available from the dashboard's global filter, or in the scope of individual widgets.

For details, see ALM Octane dashboard.

You can now create custom fields of type Date. Unlike the DateTime type, the Date type does not include the time component.

For details, see Add custom fields.

Exporting a grid to Excel now includes the grid's related item fields.

For details, see Export data.

A new Value Stream Management dashboard template is now available. It includes widgets with a recommended set of KPIs that reflect the current value stream management status.

For details, see Dashboard templates.

VSM widgets

The following VSM enhancements are available: 

• Flow time trend. A new widget enables you to analyze the trend of your features' flow time. View features with the highest flow time in the insights, and analyze correlations between the development time and quality.

• Done date. The date on which features and backlog items enter the Done metaphase is now captured in a new Done date field. The Done date is now the default value on the x-axis of the VSM widgets.

  You can display the new field in grids and add it to the item details view.

For details, see Dashboard widgets: VSM category.

Dashboard enhancements

The following dashboard enhancements are available:

• Global filter. You can now set a global context filter for the dashboard module. By default, the global filter is applied to all new widgets added to the dashboard. You can override the global filter for individual widgets.

• Cross-workspace reporting. The predefined VSM and cycle time dashboard widgets now support cross-workspace reporting.

For details, see ALM Octane dashboard.

Flow time and waste time tracking is now extended to stories and defects.

For details on waste tracking, see Measure waste. For details on flow time, see Cycle and flow times.

Document report enhancement

When adding a widget to a document report, you can now use a link to open the selected dashboard favorite. This helps you identify the widget that you want.

For details, see Create a report template.

You can now assign teams to programs. You can then assign work items to teams according to their program association.

For details, see Create teams.

The following auto action enhancements are now available:

• You can now add comments to features and backlog items through auto actions.

• Auto actions can now run Deployment Automation application processes using component versions.

For details, see Create a release process.

Multi-branch support for Azure DevOps

Multi-branch jobs are now supported for the Azure DevOps Services extension integration. For details, see Functionality supported by CI integrations.

Admins can now set a custom message that users will see after logging in. For details, see Set a post-login message.

GitLab plugin enhancement

The GitLab plugin now supports running automated tests from the test framework. For details, see Functionality supported by CI integrations.

The following auto action enhancements are now available:

• You can now run Deployment Automation application processes via an auto action.
• Auto actions can now run TeamCity jobs.

For details, see Create a release process.

The names of Dashboard favorites are now displayed next to the module name. For details, see Favorites.

You can now access the Dashboard templates from the toolbar. For details, see Dashboard templates.

Export dashboard to HTML

You can now export a dashboard page as an independent html file. This gives you a static version of the dashboard that you can use as a baseline or for auditing purposes. For details, see ALM Octane dashboard.

The following auto action enhancements are now available:

• You can now send emails via an auto action.
• Auto actions can now trigger Bamboo jobs.
• You can now define parameters for a multi-branch Jenkins job. Also, branch name validation for multi-branch jobs has been enabled.
• For GitLab jobs, you can now use the Branch name field to define the CI tags. Unlike with branches, where jobs run on the latest version of code, tags help you run jobs on specific versions, regardless of the commit time.

For details, see Create a release process.

You can now adjust the names of release types to the methodology adopted by your team, by editing the Agile Type list items.

For details, see Set up a release.

Trend widgets enhancement

You can now see run trends for specific backlog items. You can specify Backlog’s last test runs as an item type in the graph’s scope, and filter run item types by Backlog Coverage. For details, see Configure widget data settings.

You can now run a Azure DevOps pipeline with parameters.

For details, see Run Azure DevOps pipelines.

You can now save all visible configurations, such as filters and widgets, as part of your favorite. You can then apply this favorite configuration to additional pipeline runs, without having to set up the filters and widgets again.

For details, see Customize your pipeline display.

The following enhancements to auto actions are now available:

• You can now create auto actions to trigger GitLab jobs and generate document reports. For details, see Create a release process.
• Aborting an ALM Octane's auto action that runs a PulseUno job now aborts the corresponding job in PulseUno, and vice versa. For details, see Run a release process.

The name of the selected favorite is now displayed in the top banner, next to the favorite icon. For details, see Favorites.

You can now inject BDD test results from SpecFlow, using a report generation template file. For details, see Inject BDD test results from SpecFlow.

You can now track and optimize your value delivery process with the following widgets:

• Flow efficiency - waste time across releases: Track the waste time trend across releases. Use the widget AI insights to identify the top work items with the highest waste time in a scope.
• Waste time grouped by waste category across releases: Identify the main causes of waste in each time period. The widget helps you understand whether you've managed to reduce or eliminate any of the waste causes.

For details, see Dashboard widgets: VSM category.

A new widget type allows you to display KPIs as single-number scorecards. For details, see Dashboard widgets: general.

You can now display metrics on the y-axis as an average. For example, in a features summary graph, display the average number of feature story points assigned to each developer. For details, see ALM Octane dashboard.

You can now identify slow phases in features and epics that exceed the phase time threshold set for your workspace. For details, see Analyze the release.

Risk-based testing analytics now provides insights for recommended tests. The insights help you understand why the tests are recommended. For example, the analytics recommends and prioritizes tests that should provide a good coverage of a selected area and reduce its quality risk. For details, see Quality risk insights.

The Plan Run dialog is now consistent when selecting one or multiple tests. You can set field values for all of the selected tests, including values for user-defined fields. For details, see Plan and run manual and Gherkin tests.