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Background

The Rapid Board is a fresh start for GreenHopper. We are building it to take advantage of the latest in web technology and provide you, the customer, with an awesome experience for planning, tracking and reporting on the progress of your agile projects and teams.
 
One thing is absolutely clear: your agile project does not necessarily map to a single JIRA Project. For that reason we have addressed the most common feature request — GHS-1800, support for more than one JIRA project in GreenHopper. Not being folks to sit still, we are taking this opportunity to introduce a new user experience with fewer page reloads and more useful URLs —  users will be able to have a URL for the displayed page (GHS-990).
 
The Rapid Board removes the complexity of the existing user interface (projects, contexts, boards, filters, versions, etc) while retaining the flexibility of GreenHopper. In fact, with the Rapid Board, GreenHopper is now a whole lot more flexible due to our use of the JIRA Query Language (JQL).
 
Further, the Rapid Board will return the Fix Version field back to its intended use-case, showing which versions a bug or story can be found in. The Rapid Board will result in a decoupling of Sprints from the Fix Version field (GHS-945).
 
We also have a new ranking field, Global Rank, which provides better performance than the previous solution. For the first time, you will be able to rank issues across JIRA Projects.
 
With the introduction of the Global Rank, JIRA and GreenHopper will no longer need to reindex all of the issues in each JIRA Project every evening (GHS-2727).
How is a Rapid Board different from the Planning/Task/Chart/Released Boards?

The Rapid Board is very similar to the Task Board with a few significant differences:

  • support for multiple JIRA projects
  • swimlanes
  • control chart for measuring the cycle time
  • interactive charts (zoom and click)
  • permanent links provide 'what you see is what they get' when emailing or IM'ing URLs
  • quick filters are based on JQL so you can create your own

Over time the Rapid Board will continue to evolve to replace the bulk of the functionality on the Planning/Task/Chart/Released Boards.

The Plan

The Rapid Board graduated from Labs in GreenHopper 5.8, initially providing support for Kanban teams. Scrum functionality was then introduced in GreenHopper 5.8.5, and graduated from Labs in GreenHopper 5.10. This initial implementation allows Scrum teams to use the Rapid Board to plan one sprint ahead, and we are focusing our development efforts on expanding your planning options. Our intention is to provide a very fast and easy approach to building a backlog, grooming the backlog then executing Sprints. We will continue to seek feedback from new adopters as we develop the functionality. 

In GreenHopper 6.0 we plan to push the existing boards (Planning, Task, Chart and Released Boards) to a Classic Mode and drop the "Rapid" title. The existing functionality on the Planning, Task, Chart and Released Boards will continue to be available for a number of releases until it becomes clear that the majority of customers have switched over. 

What now?

If you haven't yet tried the Rapid Board, we encourage you to give it a go.

A few pointers:

  • We'll support multiple iterations in a later release, but currently you can only have one iteration active (in Work mode), and one in planning (in Plan mode), per Rapid Board.
  • Contexts are replaced by Rapid Boards; there is no migration path today so if you are already using GreenHopper then you will need to recreate these from scratch.
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