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Release Notes articles for Azure DevOps buyers
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October 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.9: AGAN AI links the views it mentions, and its button has a new mark
AGAN AI links the views it mentions, and its button has a new mark.
Read article →October 28, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.8: AGAN AI explains the numbers on your view, and opens question first
AGAN AI now explains the numbers on the view you are on, and asking it a question is the first thing you see.
Read article →October 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.7: AGAN AI is easier to find, and every trial member gets straight in
During a free trial, every member of the organisation gets straight into the hub, and the AGAN AI button now says what it is.
Read article →October 26, 2026 • 2 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.6: a clearer screen when a trial ends, and a way for your team to ask for it back
When a free trial ends, the screen now gives the end date and what is paused, team members can press "I want Agile Analytics back", and Ask Henry is one click away.
Read article →October 26, 2026 • 1 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.5: Workflow Mapping is ready to review the moment you open it
On a new organisation, Workflow Mapping now shows the mapping Agile Analytics set up for you, ready to review. Organisation admins who hold their rights through a Microsoft Entra group are recognised as admins.
Read article →October 25, 2026 • 1 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.4: your seat list on our server stays in step with your Access settings
On Team and Business plans, when an admin opens the hub, anyone with a seat in your Access settings is now added to our server copy if they are not in it yet. Nothing changes on screen and nobody loses a seat.
Read article →October 25, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.3: a first-week checklist in AGAN AI, and Configuration tabs that show what it saved
New organisations get "Your first week" in AGAN AI: three steps that decide whether their numbers are right. A Configuration tab open beside the panel now shows a change the Setup advisor saves straight away.
Read article →October 25, 2026 • 2 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65.2: the Setup advisor shows everything a change will save
When a suggested WIP limit is for a team that is not in WIP Rules yet, the Setup advisor now also says it adds the team there, before you confirm. After you confirm a change AGAN AI prepared, the panel names it.
Read article →October 25, 2026 • 7 min read
Agile Analytics 6.65: meet AGAN AI, a Setup advisor that prepares fixes you confirm, and Exclude from metrics
AGAN AI is a helper panel inside Agile Analytics. It checks your setup, finds stuck and blocked work, answers questions about the app, and prepares setup fixes that are only saved when you confirm them. Workflow Mapping can also leave abandoned states such as Cancelled out of every number, and organisation admins are recognised more reliably.
Read article →October 19, 2026 • 7 min read
Agile Analytics 6.63.5: ended sprints count as finished, a better Exec Report, and numbers that agree
A sprint whose end date has passed now counts as finished in every view, so some averages and forecasts move. Monte Carlo can size a backlog from an Epic, the Exec Report has Copy email text, and many numbers, dates and labels now agree from view to view.
Read article →October 17, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.63.1: Monte Carlo from weekly throughput, and a burn-up for Epics
Monte Carlo can now forecast from weekly throughput, for teams that do not run sprints. Open an Epic that has Features in Epic Analytics to see its burn-up, with the same 50% and 85% landing dates as the table.
Read article →October 15, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.62: a Sub-teams view, a switch for sub-teams’ work, and teams from other projects
Teams with sub-teams get a new Sub-teams view and a switch that decides whether the parent’s numbers include its sub-teams’ work. Sprint Summary and Cumulative Flow now count that work by default for these teams, so committed goes up and scope change goes down. Exec Report and Cycle Time can include teams from other projects, and Sprint Burnup counts only the Story Points your team has set.
Read article →October 14, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.60: Started and End dates in Feature and Epic Analytics, and work in progress that leaves out Removed items
Feature Analytics and Epic Analytics now show when work started and when it ends, and each Epic roadmap card shows the same dates. Work in progress now leaves out Removed items, and Aging & Blocked ages a reopened item by the days it was worked. Cycle Time is unchanged.
Read article →October 12, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.59: a one-page Exec Report you can share, a free Sprint Forecast widget, and commitment reliability that counts only your team
Exec Report now opens with a one-page summary for leadership, built in your browser and shared as a PDF, an email draft or copied text. The Sprint Forecast dashboard widget is free for every organisation. In sprints shared by several teams, commitment reliability and carryover now count only your own team’s work. AI Metrics reads Copilot usage from GitHub’s current reports, and Auto-detect from ADO follows Azure DevOps’ own work item categories.
Read article →October 8, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.58: clear messages for sprints without dates, Basic process Issues counted, and safer generated pipelines
In a brand-new Azure DevOps project the first sprints have no start or end date. Cumulative Flow, Sprint Burnup and the Current Sprint card now say clearly when a sprint has no dates yet. Projects on the default Basic process have their Issues counted, Export Sprint CSV works for teams with undated sprints or no sprints at all, generated pipelines handle unusual team and project names safely, and “View all release notes” opens this page.
Read article →October 5, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.56 and 6.57: calmer empty sprints, working Snapshots, and one consistent look across every view
Two numbers can move for some teams: averages of commitment reliability and carryover now skip sprints where nothing was committed, and flow efficiency on Flow Metrics and Delivery Signals now agrees with the Flow Efficiency view. Empty and ended sprints say so instead of showing zeros and red verdicts, forecast confidence uses one set of blue shades, the Snapshot buttons on Cycle Time and Monte Carlo download their picture, and every view now shares the same header, filter strip and empty state, with larger small text.
Read article →September 25, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.54 and 6.55: forecasts that add up every team, and a lock screen that says how to buy
A forecast across several teams used to behave roughly like one team, whatever the team count. It now adds up what each team delivers, and forecasts use each sprint’s real calendar length, so totals are higher and finish dates a little later. Service Level Expectation results count items that skipped the active state, and the Little’s Law panel on Flow Metrics is now labelled as a rough check. When a trial ends, anyone on the team can now pass a ready-made message to the person who buys, and the screen says who can buy and where the licence key goes.
Read article →September 16, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.53: a storage blip no longer locks anyone out, and forecasts explain themselves before your first sprint
Very occasionally Azure DevOps extension storage answers a read with nothing, the same answer it gives when a document does not exist. Until now that could make a licensed organisation look unlicensed for a minute and show the lock screen. The hub now confirms a blank answer a second way, keeps its state and retries when it cannot, and remembers the last successful licence check in your browser. The same blip no longer re-records the administrator email or resets a trial start date, and the Sprint Forecast tile says forecasts start after your first completed sprint instead of showing an error. Updated 22 September for 6.53.1, which makes the Throughput and Sprint Forecast dashboard tiles load for teams with a long sprint history.
Read article →September 14, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.52: waiting time counts as waiting, and failed loads explain themselves
Time an item spends in a Waiting or Blocked state now counts as wait time on Flow Metrics, Delivery Signals, the Cumulative Flow Diagram and the Aging tab, so flow efficiency can read lower for teams that use those states. A view that cannot load now says what went wrong and what to do, in your language. The Privacy tab states exactly what leaves your tenant, a licensing blip no longer locks anyone out, and exported charts carry a small line saying where they came from. Updated 16 September for 6.52.1, which keeps at least one view ticked for members.
Read article →September 3, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.49: your tags decide what counts as maintenance
Your Azure DevOps tags now decide what Investment Allocation counts as maintenance, and a new exploration list adds a bucket that was never there before. This release also fixes how a reopened item is measured on Flow Efficiency and the service level tables, so those figures can move for teams with rework, and it catches this blog up on the releases in between.
Read article →August 30, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.48.4: your settings survive a brief connection problem
A brief connection problem could quietly replace your saved settings, or your organisation’s workflow mapping, with the built-in defaults, and the next automatic save wrote those defaults over the real thing. 6.48.4 closes that gap, tells you when a mapping could not be loaded, fixes dashboard customization, and clears the last language inconsistencies.
Read article →August 18, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.43: the Enterprise package update
Organisation-wide default settings with a one-click, undoable rollout to every user, settings locks that are finally visible everywhere, admin control over who sees individual user metrics, forecasts that speak in confidence ranges, a redesigned aging chart, a built-in metrics glossary, and dashboard widgets you can now actually configure. Plus everything that shipped since our last post here.
Read article →July 27, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.34.8: your charts stop rewriting history
Finished sprints were being judged by where work sits today, so a team with good hygiene watched its own history drain towards zero. 6.34.8 reconstructs each past sprint as it actually stood at the time. The Cumulative Flow Diagram also stops leaving out work items whose change history Azure DevOps declines to return, and every dashboard now states which work item types its figures count.
Read article →July 25, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.34: change failure rate measured from real deployments
DORA Metrics gains a change failure rate attributed to actual deploys, sitting beside the defect proxy rather than replacing it, with everything it cannot attribute disclosed rather than counted. Plus clearer messages when access levels or a GitHub connection are the real problem, and a privacy page that states exactly what leaves your organisation.
Read article →July 21, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.33: lead time measured from your real deployments
DORA lead time can now be measured to the moment a pipeline run actually shipped each item. It is opt-in, shown beside the work-item measure you already use, never replacing it, with its coverage always disclosed. A pipeline picker keeps CI-only pipelines out of your deploy numbers. Plus: a notice when your installed version falls behind, a straighter path to Next Sprint Planning, a grown-up SLE Violations page, and a fix for the refresh that forgot your team.
Read article →July 20, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.31: throughput and WIP in story points, more representative DORA numbers, and SLEs that find your categories
A Count / Points toggle lands on Flow Metrics and the WIP Monitor. Points are read from your existing estimates, so there is nothing new to configure. Large organisations may see DORA lead-time and restore-time figures shift once: the sample behind them is now genuinely representative instead of biased to the oldest items. And 6.31.1 teaches Service Level Expectations to match work you categorize with a custom field or a tag, so a "No data" target can finally report.
Read article →July 20, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.32: slice investment by your own fields, an SLE violations page, and the release where several numbers got honest
Investment Allocation now breaks down by any field you choose, with rename-and-merge value mapping. A new SLE Violations page lists the exact items behind every missed target. And the biggest change is honesty: commitment reliability and carryover now measure against a start-of-sprint snapshot. Teams that roll unfinished work forward were reading 100% and ~0% forever. Expect those figures to shift once to the truth. And 6.32.2 adds a guard rail to the new SLE editor: it warns when a customized target counts something different from what its name says, and fixes it in one click.
Read article →July 17, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.28–6.30: a catch-up with forecasts you can commit to, truer numbers for imported work, and a clearer look everywhere
Three releases in one post. The Monte Carlo forecast cards had confidence inverted, and 95% now means the safe number, so expect commitments to change. Work imported from Jira or CSV no longer reads as hundred-day cycle times. Sprint Alerts installs correctly and stops announcing month-old transitions. And every chart got a consistent, more scannable redesign. It is visual only, and the numbers underneath are unchanged.
Read article →July 7, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.27: every view now tells the whole truth: one Done ruler, no silent gaps
One definition of "done" everywhere: every view now uses your Workflow Mapping, including custom state names. Nothing fails silently anymore: unavailable teams are named, caps say "showing N of M", and estimated dates are labelled. And two metrics got more truthful: WIP history and flow efficiency may shift after this update. That is the correction, not a change in your delivery.
Read article →July 6, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.26: DORA metrics, exec reports on a schedule, and a clear view of where the work goes
Three new views arrive in the Measure group: DORA Metrics computed natively from your own Azure DevOps data, an Exec Report you can print to PDF or deliver as a scheduled email digest, and Investment Allocation, the features / bugs / maintenance split per team, with unplanned work called out. One heads-up: this update asks an organisation admin for a one-time approval of a new read-only Pipelines permission.
Read article →June 21, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.23: a customizable dashboard, a plan-aware Epic Roadmap, export everywhere, and numbers you can trust
Make the Dashboard yours by rearranging and showing or hiding widgets, plan your Epic Roadmap by setting Target Dates, export any dashboard to CSV (now including Live Stats), jump straight into Azure DevOps from your lists, and, on Enterprise, span multiple projects in Epic Analytics. Plus: the Dashboard’s cycle time now matches the Cycle Time view exactly. No new permissions, no re-authorisation, every setting and mapping preserved.
Read article →June 14, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.20: everything new since the spring, in one place
A lot has landed since 6.16: clickable drill-through on every chart, Multi-Team Aging as a risk radar, Epic Analytics with quarter heatmaps, Monte Carlo forecasts that grade themselves against actual delivery, a weekly digest that reads like a coach’s note, and plainer-English coaching. v6.20 brings it all to the public Marketplace and rewrites the in-product release notes to be short and scannable.
Read article →June 5, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.16: Trial-reminder signup is now automatic
v6.16 removes a step from the trial-reminder signup flow. The prompt previously asked you to retype the email Azure DevOps already knows about you and click Send; v6.16 subscribes that address for you and shows a 60-second visible Undo banner instead. v6.16.1 also removes a duplicate feedback card from the dashboard so there's one clear path to reach us.
Read article →June 4, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 6.15.6: Ask Henry, right in the top bar
v6.15.6 is a small UX release that makes it easier to reach us from inside the extension. A persistent 👋 Ask Henry button now lives in the dashboard top bar, and the Help & Support page got reorganised from four cards into three clearly distinct paths: Ask Henry, Book a Call, Rate Us. Same CTA is now on the homepage and pricing page of the website too.
Read article →June 1, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.15: smarter empty states, sharper project filtering
v6.15 is a focused release of customer-asked-for refinements. A new "Limit to current project" toggle on Live Stats and Sprint Summary scopes metrics to one project instead of every team across the org. The Cycle Time view's empty-state on brand-new ADO setups now reads as a friendly welcome instead of suggesting your workflow mapping might be broken. And Configuration sidebar badges clear in real time the moment an admin approves a user or saves a mapping change, so there are no more page reloads to confirm an action worked.
Read article →May 29, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.14: we've broken the language barrier for workflow mapping
6.14 is the release where workflow auto-discovery stops being an English-only tool. Italian, German, and French now classify out of the box, alongside the English / Spanish / Portuguese we already had. We also added a clear, in-product signal the moment a state name doesn't fit, so there are no more silently wrong dashboards, and a one-time "want to re-run discovery?" prompt for teams already on an older mapping. Most of this came directly from customer feedback over the last six weeks.
Read article →May 23, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 6.11.2: Feature Analytics scope filter, Linked PRs in User Metrics
v6.11.2 ships two reporting fixes customers raised during evaluation and adds zero new Azure DevOps permissions. Feature Analytics now respects the team scope you save in Configuration → Feature Filters end-to-end: the feature list itself trims to scope, not just the per-team aggregate table and Completed-SP totals. User Metrics gains a new Linked PRs column that counts pull requests attached to each user's assigned work items, populated from work-item relations so the upgrade is silent, with no admin re-authorisation prompt. PR comment counts remain unavailable in this build and now render as an em-dash instead of a misleading zero.
Read article →May 20, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.7.0: Per-seat awareness, signed extension auth, and reliability hardening
v6.7.0 brings the in-product side of the per-seat pricing model we rolled out on the website in May: a soft seat-usage banner appears in the hub when an org is over the limit for its tier, with the existing license remaining fully active. Behind the scenes, every license and telemetry call now travels with a JWT signed by the extension's own certificate (Microsoft's recommended auth model), and a stack of resilience fixes since 6.6.1: chunk-error recovery on stale tabs, tighter input handling at every license endpoint, and a three-layer migration safety net. Founding / Annual / Monthly customers keep their existing plans byte-for-byte; nothing about your subscription changes.
Read article →May 19, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.6.1: Vacanti-style flow analytics: bands, signals, and density
v6.6.1 brings four flow-metrics upgrades at feature parity with the analytics suites coaches use in Vacanti / Wheeler workshops, without changing where you go or what you click. Cycle Time and Aging gain shaded percentile bands so the distribution is legible at a glance, and two new views land in Measure: Process Behavior (Wheeler XmR / SPC chart that separates routine variation from genuine process signals) and Cycle Time Heat Map (2D density of completion week × cycle band). Every change is additive, with zero impact on existing data, mappings, or settings.
Read article →May 16, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.5.9: GitHub Copilot in AI Metrics, AIIP thresholds, and admin email capture
v6.5.9 lands three things customers asked for: a GitHub Copilot tab under Configuration → Admin so AI Metrics auto-connects on load (no more per-session Connect click), low/high AIIP thresholds with an optional Slack/Teams webhook, and a one-time, org-scoped admin email auto-capture (disclosed in the welcome modal, opt-out via Privacy). Plus a stack of behind-the-scenes licensing reliability fixes since 6.5.3.
Read article →May 14, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 6.5.3: Better Workflow Mapping for every Azure DevOps process
v6.5.3 makes Workflow Mapping smarter: it reads your project's actual ADO state names (Agile "Active", CMMI "Resolved", Basic "Doing"/"To Do") and seeds the mapping accordingly, so Cycle Time, Flow Efficiency, and Monte Carlo render real data the first time you open them. Plus quieter handling of transient licensing-service hiccups in Configuration → License.
Read article →May 10, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.4.1 Release Notes: Privacy-safe usage telemetry, by allow-list
Versions 6.4.0 and 6.4.1 land the privacy-safe usage telemetry we've been talking about for a while: ten allow-listed event names, allow-listed property values, no work-item content, no user identities. The extension records what was used, not what was in it. The server rejects anything that isn't on the allow-list, so even a future bug in the client can't leak content.
Read article →May 7, 2026 • 7 min read
Agile Analytics 6.3.5 Release Notes: Next Sprint Planning, cycle-time honesty, and AI Metrics improvements
Version 6.3.5 makes Next Sprint Planning available to every customer under Plan → Next Sprint Planning. It is a capacity- and Monte-Carlo-aware forecast that answers "what should we commit to next sprint?" from the team's own history and the upcoming sprint's Azure DevOps Boards capacity. The release also tightens Cycle Time so the chart admits when the data is unreliable instead of reporting a false floor, and bundles three customer-feedback features for AI Metrics.
Read article →May 4, 2026 • 7 min read
Agile Analytics 6.2.3 Release Notes: Per-type Cycle Time, clearer item-type categories, and a warning for unmapped types
Version 6.2.3 adds per-type filtering inside Cycle Time when multiple Azure DevOps work item types share an analytics category, renames the categories to Planned Work, Bugs, and Exploration, and shows a warning when work items have ADO types that aren't mapped into any category. Since 6.2.0 we've also shipped first-install auto-detection of work item types and a simpler Workflow Mapping tab.
Read article →April 29, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.1 Release Notes: Custom states auto-discovered, Flow Efficiency, SLEs
Version 6.1 ships a new Flow Efficiency view, Service Level Expectations on the Dashboard, and auto-discovery of custom Azure DevOps workflow states. Patches 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 add lenient state-name matching, a heuristic fallback for fresh installs, and clearer empty-state diagnostics.
Read article →April 27, 2026 • 6 min read
Agile Analytics 6.0.0 Release Notes
Major release: explicit N/A workflow mapping, smarter Blocked detection, deep-linked Sprint Capacity, and full dark mode coverage for configuration and capacity panels.
Read article →March 22, 2026 • 8 min read
Agile Analytics 4.0: AI Metrics, AIIP & Dashboard Widgets
Version 4.0 is the first major release of Agile Analytics. It adds company-wide AI adoption analytics (AI Metrics), an admin-only AI Improvement & Intervention Panel (AIIP), and three Azure DevOps dashboard widgets. The largest feature drop since launch.
Read article →March 20, 2026 • 7 min read
Agile Analytics 3.8 Release Notes: New Navigation, Command Palette & Redesigned Layout
Version 3.8 ships a complete UI overhaul: a collapsible sidebar replaces the horizontal tab strip, a sticky 48px header bar consolidates controls, a full-screen command palette lands on Ctrl+K, and the Configuration panel moves to a vertical side-nav. Every new element is fully dark-mode covered.
Read article →March 19, 2026 • 5 min read
Agile Analytics 3.7.2 Release Notes
Version 3.7.2 ships configurable Item Type Mapping for any ADO process template, Sprint Summary dark mode, and two commitment-lock accuracy fixes in the Sprint Summary scope change tile.
Read article →March 17, 2026 • 4 min read
Agile Analytics 3.6.0 Release Notes
Version 3.6.0 brings rich interactive tooltips to the Cycle Time Scatterplot, smarter setup-banner behaviour for returning users, org-wide workflow-mapping recognition, and accurate cycle/lead-time values in every tooltip mode.
Read article →March 17, 2026 • 3 min read
Agile Analytics 3.5.0 Release Notes
Access control is now available across all plans. Starter and Pro include admin claim plus access-request approvals, while Business and Enterprise continue to add role-based view permissions.
Read article →March 15, 2026 • 10 min read
Agile Analytics 3.1.5: Our Biggest Release Yet
Dashboard widgets, four new analytics views, a reorganised navigation, and 211 automated tests. Here is everything that landed in 3.1.5.
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