24.11.17 release (minor)

• Public Assessment Enhanced Configuration - for our partners who run public assessments/surveys

  • Landing page image customization

  • Stage Name customization

  • Target State option

  • Show/hide “get access” button customization

  • Show/hide marketing banner

  • Spider scaling improvements

• Capability Trends

  • Comparison line is dashed

  • Larger font for all screen sizes

24.11.03 release

• Public Assessment Enhanced Configuration - for our partners who run public assessments/surveys

  • Supports Member Attributes,

  • Prompts are now supported

  • Member Attributes are now supported

  • Role-assigned assessments are now supported

  • New configurations to hide/show various Results widgets and customize banners

• New Free Trial Flow - new users can now either request a free trial or simply explore our demo environment, allowing users to quickly see our capabilities with sample data included!

• Group Summary is now Group Heatmap

  • With an enhanced look, the Group Heatmap dashboard in Results is now formatted and styled to make it easier to see patterns across teams!

• Super Users have permission to Reassign Facilitator - just like Admins, Super Users can now reassign the facilitator of an assessment

• Small Improvements

  • Registered members can view their votes after assessment completion in Manage Assessments, by clicking “View My Responses” next to the completed assessment. For Separate-mode assessments only.

  • Manage Assessments has a select-all checkbox

  • Manage Assessment has a new Group filter

  • Rating Trends widget is now the Rating widget (name change only)

  • SAP Capability name and description is now bolder and easier to see

  • Trends dashboard has more-readable legends

24.10.05 release (minor)

• Improve Manage Assessments performance

24.09.29 release

• Custom Member Attributes - the ability to define your own attributes for assessment participants and collect them from participants when joining an assessment

  • Terminology change

    • Participant-only users -> non-registered members

    • Members -> registered members

  • Admins can define Member Attributes and the available values

  • Admins can edit Custom Templates and assign Member Attributes to them

  • Launched Assessments with those Templates will require participants to supply the Member Attributes when joining the assessment

  • Results will provide filters, and allow you to view votes and participants by those attributes

• Capability Prompts - Attach open-ended prompts to custom Capabilities

  • Admins can edit Custom Capabilities and provide prompts (open-ended questions) to be answered by assessment participants for that Capability

  • The prompt responses will be found in the same places as Notes today - in Capability Details dashboard and in the Capability drilldown

• Results Improvements

  • Snapshot and Rating Trends style updates and hiding irrelevant data. For example, goals and impediments will not be shown if they are not being used.

  • The same change (hiding irrelevant information) is applied to the rest of the widgets, for a consistent and easy-to-digest experience for all use cases

• Small Improvements

  • Option to change our stages (Starting, Developing, etc.) to generic stages (Challenged, Foundational, etc.) via an organization setting in Account

  • For select customers, we will prevent mixing Capability Levels with Template types to ensure consistency.

  • Fix issue in Template Builder with creating more than one new capability and adding to a new template

24.08.27 release (minor)

• New Flow Accelerators Assessment public content available! Check out our Assessment Templates page to find the new assessment.

24.08.23 release (minor)

• New Flow Accelerators Assessment available! Log in and launch an assessment today!

24.08.06 release (minor)

• Fixed timeout in Manage Assessments for users with many assessments in view

24.07.21 release (minor)

• New Facilitators Guide! We proudly show off our more comprehensive facilitation guide, guiding facilitators to get the most out of LAI. Available to all registered members - follow the link “Go to Facilitation Guide” after logging in.

• Export Assessment Template to CSV - Export all the capabilities in any assessment template, along with the dimension, outcomes, and criteria. Find this feature in Assessment Templates screen after clicking on a Template and selecting the “Export Template” button. Don’t see it? Reach out to us so we can mark your organization and enable this feature.

• Small Improvements

  • Display Name minimum changed from 3 to 2 characters

  • Overall Average, Dimension, and Outcome drilldowns in Results now show “2/5 Entities’ for each stage when hovering over a stage in the pie chart.

  • Members are now known as either “registered members” (previously “members”) and “non-registered members” (previous “participant-only users”)

24.06.30 release

• Custom Time Periods

  • New Custom Time Periods screen allow you to define time periods for your Groups or Entities. These time periods dictate how Results are bucketed.

  • The default time period will continue to be quarterly. With an exception for quantitative assessments, the default will be monthly. Both of these can be overridden by defining a custom time period.

  • See the scores for each time period in a new Capability Drilldown tab called “Trends”

  • View more than 4 time periods on our dashboards - up to 12 time periods at once

  • Assessment Information widget shows all templates that have been used, not just the last one

  • Custom Metrics use defined time periods also

• Small Improvements

  • Number of participants added to Assessment Information widget in Results

  • Unsubscribe link in emails does not require login anymore

24.05.15 release (MINOR)

• Small Improvements

  • New free trials do not have access to import/export

  • GDPR compliance publication

24.04.25 release (minor)

• Small Improvements

  • Public assessment tweaks and enhancements

24.04.21 release

• Public Assessment enhanced configurations for Partners

  • Customize the landing page and other details of your public assessment to tailor it more for your use case

• Participant responses link

  • Participants are given a link to be able to come back and revisit their responses for Separate mode assessments

• Small Improvements

  • Provide language while voting explaining why checkboxes in stages to the right cannot be clicked

  • Hide some Insights Canvas widgets completely instead of collapsing them when there’s no data

  • Website font size increase

24.04.16 release (minor)

• Small Improvements

  • Fixed “Clear All” bug clearing template capabilities in Template Builder

24.03.31 release

• Capability Role Assignments

  • A Capability Template can assign one or more Roles (Product Owner, Developer, etc.) to each Capability in the Template.

  • Roles can be user defined by Admins via the “Manage Roles” button in Members.

  • On assessment launch, the Roles for each question can be adjusted.

  • During the assessment, when the participant supplies their Role, they will only be presented capabilities that are defined for their role.

• Results / Insights Canvas Design

  • Dashboards dropdown is now tabs

  • Organization Tree Sidebar can be fully hidden

  • Assessment Summary widget is collapsed by default

  • Select widgets are more responsive for different screen sizes

• Out-of-the-Box Dimension Names change (for select LAI organizations)

  • Value Driven -> Product

  • Dynamics -.> Culture

  • Quality -> Engineering

  • Adapt -> Process

  • Improve -> Improvement

• Small Improvements

  • In Separate mode, if a user does not answer all the questions, their responses are preserved so they are available in case of a re-open. Note that Results will still show the same score since the user did not submit their responses.

  • Only show out-of-the-box NeuroxProfile template for clients who have used it

24.02.18 release

• Revamped Homepage - showcasing the true power of LAI. Visit it today!

• Recommended Templates is now the Capability Templates Assistant! - get enhanced recommendations by answering a few questions in the Capability Templates page

• Terminology Changes

  • Question -> Capability

  • Assessment Template -> Capability Template

  • Business Outcome -> Outcome

  • Agile at Scale -> At Scale

  • Agile Leader assessment -> Adaptive Leader assessment

• Permission changes

  • Partners not able to create child organizations by themselves anymore

  • Child organizations no longer have access to any exports

  • All non-paid organizations no longer have access to Jira Integration or the LAI API

• Minor Improvements

  • The Recommendations widget now splits the recommended capabilities into two lists - one for performance metrics and one for practices & behaviors

  • SAP in Separate mode now prompts the user to save their note before navigating to the next question.

24.01.20 RELEASE (minor)

• Small enhancements

  • Integrate permission and role of user (internal-only change)

24.01.16 RELEASE (minor)

• Small fixes

  • Redirect Analyst to join as a participant-only user instead of receiving “Access Denied” error when following an assessment link.

  • Fix Question description in the SAP not clearing when a question doesn’t have a description

  • Fix Facilitator not Voting Complete Assessment button not appearing in Together mode

  • Prompt user to save notes when navigating questions in Separate mode

24.01.13 RELEASE

• Launch Assessment flow

  • Launching an assessment will now walk you through every option available and help the user make a clearer decision

  • Phrases reworded for a clearer understanding.

  • New Single/Multiple Participant Setting replaces “Only one member will complete this assessment”

• SAP controls upgraded

  • Navigate backwards and forward through an assessment without answering

  • Suspend is now Cancel & Come Back

  • Rearrangement of controls on the screen for a more straightforward experience

• Manage Assessments from Assessment History

  • Assessment History is now called Manage Assessments

  • New actions such as Cancel Assessment, Complete Assessment, and Continue Assessment are available from the Manage Assessments screen

  • Extra information supplied such as the participant’s progress on the assessment and all the options selected during launch

• Participant-Only context

  • Entity and Team for the assessment can be found in the shared participant link, the Participant login screen, and at the top of the Self-Assessment Platform so that a participant is always aware of which assessment is being taken

• Improvement Action Edit screen upgrade

  • Created date, updated date, and closed date are available for context when editing an Improvement Action

23.12.17 RELEASE (minor)

• Small Fixes

  • Invite Member persists Permission, Groups, and Teams

  • Restore Dimension/Outcome names in PDF export

  • Restore Agility Stage in Criteria to Discuss

  • Restore reserved email domains functionality

23.12.03 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• Improvement Action (IA) dashboard

  • A new Results dashboard that allows view all your IAs in one place! As well as metrics on them.

• Improvement Actions integrated with Goals and Impediments

  • Goals and Impediments cannot be unmarked if open Improvement Actions of the same type exists

  • When marking a goal or impediment, you will be prompted for an improvement action to be created (optional).

  • When adding an improvement action, you will also mark the question as a goal or an impediment.

  • During assessment launch, there is an Improvement Action review step to close out any Open Improvement Actions before launching a new assessment

  • A new organization setting controls whether or not goals and impediments can be set in the Self Assessment Platform. Off by default for a leaner assessment experience.

• Jira multiple instances

  • We now allow you to integrate with multiple instances of JIra

• Assessment History

  • Redesigned pagination allows it to handle thousands of assessments - great for large organizations

  • Edit Completed Date action allows you to change the completed date of any Completed Assessment

• Registration Email domain handling - when a new user registers with the same email domain as an existing organization, they will go through a flow to get access to that organization, instead of mistakenly creating their own LAI Organization.

• Small improvements

  • Admin can now change the display name of any member

  • Documentation links have been added around the JIra integration and Coaching Assistant

  • The Self Assessment Platform auto reconnects clients with bad connections for a more reliable assessment experience

  • Both Copy Link and Copy Invitation buttons are available during Launch Assessment

  • Secondary Filter retention - secondary table filters in Results are remembered as users view different Entities/Groups and dashboards

  • Group Summary defaults to Question view

  • Remember position in template of a copied question when it is replaced

  • Total count of records added to all tables

23.11.16 RELEASE (minor)

• Small Improvements

  • Scoring Summary improved formatting and style

  • Group Summary header style improvements

  • Remove limit on number of custom Business Outcomes and Practice Dimensions

  • Participant with multiple in-progress assessments could lose access to responses if the right sequence of steps are performed

  • ReCaptcha logging

23.10.15 RELEASE (minor)

• Archive/Unarchive Assessments

  • In Assessment History, assessments can be archived/unarchived.

  • When archived, they are removed from the Assessment History main view and are not included in Results

  • Unlike delete, archived assessments can be restored via Unarchive.

23.09.29 RELEASE (minor)

• Small fixes

  • Fix forgotten current step for Together assessments

23.09.10 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• Jira Integration

  • Jira issues can be created automatically when creating an Improvement Action that is of Type “Goal”

  • Sync, Map Existing, Delete functions added to Improvement Actions to support the Jira integration

  • An Admin can go to the Account screen to integrate for their LAI organization.

• Action Items new fields

  • New field: Type - specify if your action item is to a achieve a goal or remove an impediment

  • New field: Owner Role - specify the role of the person who will be working on the action item

• Coaching Assistant and Recommendations widget

  • Improvement Assistant is renamed the Coaching Assistant

  • Only viewable for Entity Results (not Group or Team

  • Input weighted percentages for each targeted outcome for each team

  • Recommendations for questions to improve are displayed in a new Recommendations widget

• UI updates - more colors and modals have been incorporated into the new LAI design

• Small Improvements

  • The assessment facilitator for a Separate assessment is no longer sent an assessment invite for their own assessment

  • All Out-of-the-Box Business Outcome descriptions shortened

  • Question Drilldown distinguishes Average Rating and Override Rating

23.08.13 RELEASE (minor)

• Rename Release Notes to Release Announcements for our release blog posts

• Improve performance of Assessment History and Member Attributes

23.07.30 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• Style updates

  • Results icons, colors, and style have changed to a more modern approach

  • Modals use a light theme

  • Buttons across the app use a consistent outline style

  • Cards throughout the app use a white header instead of a blue header for a cleaner look

  • Filters across the app have a consistent dropdown design and style

  • The Header/footer changed from a dark to a light theme

  • Font size throughout the app is consistent and larger

  • Colors throughout the app are more minimal - sticking to a more neutral color palette

• Results

  • Compare groups to other groups

    • In the Rating Trends and Question Trends widgets, groups can be compared to other groups. (Before, only teams could be compared to groups.)

    • The Rating Trends widget defaults to comparing to the parent group.

  • First Assessment Trend changes

    • A first assessment trend line is always shown, allowing you to see the first quarter that an Entity or Group assessed.

• Performance

  • Our Results screens are more responsive and faster to load, especially for large rollups. Our testing shows load times are 2-3x as fast as they used to be!

• Manage Partner Organization

  • For our partners only!

  • Create LAI organizations for your clients and connect them to your LAI organization.

  • Manage your client’s organizations with one login.

• Small Improvements

  • New “Designer” user role

23.06.25 RELEASE (minor)

• Performance

  • The Self Assessment Platform has seen a noticeable improvement in performance and scalability during peak times - a ~40% speed improvement

23.06.07 RELEASE (minor)

• Assessment Templates page design tweaks

• Criteria to discuss ordering fix

23.05.29 RELEASE (minor)

• Fix showing completed participants in Separate assessment

23.05.25 RELEASE (minor)

• URL link fixes

23.05.21 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• SAP voting changes

  • Look and feel refreshed

  • When entering screen to vote, any checkbox can be clicked

  • The previous stage is enabled and can be unchecked

• Show Notes from previous assessments

  • In the SAP, notes from previous assessments will be included in the Notes list

  • Note that in Separate mode, only the Facilitator can view previous assessment notes, since participants in Separate mode can only view their own notes for that assessment

• System notes toggle

  • In Question Details widget and Question Drilldown, a toggle will hide/show System-generated notes, to allow facilitators to focus only on the notes entered by participants

• Small Improvements

  • Look and feel of Assessment Templates refreshed

  • Measurement Strategy whitepaper now in Resources

  • LinkedIn share button add to Learning Library

23.04.16 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• No info required for Participants

  • New settings when launching an assessment “Participant email and display name required” and “Participant role required”

    • If “Participant email and display name required” is unchecked, participants do not have to enter an email or display name

    • If “Participant role required” is unchecked, participants do not have to enter a role

  • These new settings allow the user to be more anonymous and feel more safe during assessments

23.04.01 RELEASE

view our release announcement and more details here

• Super User Re-Permission

  • Super Users now have access to manage their org structure and members.

  • Super Users no longer have access to edit templates or questions.

  • Due to this change, any existing Super Users have been reassigned to be Facilitators

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • A logged-in user will be forwarded into the assessment when following the assessment link (instead of being prompted to login as a participant)

  • Prevent errors when user logs in with more than one account

  • Improved page load times when launching and joining an assessment

• Small Improvements

  • Removed validation that prevented members in assessments from being deleted

  • Updates to Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy

23.03.21 RELEASE (minor)

Small Improvements

• Updated overview brochure

• Enhance SAP criteria font size and color

23.03.15 RELEASE (minor)

Small Fixes

• Fixed previous trend not showing when there are different trend quarters at group level

23.03.13 RELEASE (minor)

Small Fixes

• Fixed rare case where group does not expand/collapse in Organization Structure

23.02.21 RELEASE (minor)

Small Improvements

• Increased max length of helpful resource link

23.02.19 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Self Assessment Platform

  • Helpful Resources visible in the Self-Assessment Platform below the Question

    • This can be toggled on/off during assessment launch

• Results

  • Results for Entities can be bucketed into quarters like Groups

    • Have an Admin toggle the Show Trends as Quarters Organization Setting in the Account screen

• Template Builder

  • Multiple levels allowed to be mapped to a single Question, allowing questions to be more generic

• Small Improvements

  • Created a new Frequently Asked Questions page to our Help menu

  • Password requirements improved to allow more symbols and characters to be part of passwords. Minimum password length updated from 7 to 8.

  • Question Trends widget supports a slightly larger view for large screens.

  • Resolved rare issue where participant login fails

23.01.22 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Assessment Template content updates

  • Updated our list of Assessment Templates including source references, helpful resources, and documentation

  • Include more templates to our recommended templates

  • Added new Latest/Former Template filter in Assessment Templates screen

  • Added new Latest/Former Question filter in the Question Bank

  • Added a Frequently Asked Questions document to our Help Menu

• Self Assessment Platform

  • Default to Separate mode when launching an assessment

  • When launching in Separate mode when the Facilitator is not participating, instead of sending the Facilitator into the assessment, there is a popup that asks what the Facilitator would like to do next.

• Results

  • If there is only one vote, the Question drilldown screen shows “Selected” instead of “100% (1/1) selected”. Additionally, any “Full Agreement” / “Partial Agreement” message on the Stage is not shown

• Small Fixes

  • Copying an Out-of-the-Box question also copies the Helpful Resources

  • Partial Credit not appearing in Separate Mode assessments

23.01.09 release (minor)

• Small Fixes

  • Better validation message when trying to save entity/group with more than 50 characters

  • Recommended Templates minor style updates

  • Update Source References disclaimer

  • Fix saving criteria with only capitalization changes

23.01.08 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• New Templates and Questions

  • New 2023 Out-of-the-Box Templates and Questions

    • Inspired by the latest trends in the Agile community and customer feedback, our templates are more consistent, shorter, and detailed than ever before.

• Template Measurement Type

  • A new attribute on each Template

    • Qualitative (Behaviors & Practices) - for qualitative measures

    • Quantitative (Performance) - used for assessments that capture quantitative measures. When template is launched, a Separate-mode, Auto complete assessment is selected by default

  • Added a Performance template recommendation to the Recommended Templates wizard

• Partial Credit

  • A new Organization Setting can be switched on to enable partial credit

  • When enabled, the immediate next stage to the selected stage is earned partial credit. So if a user selects Developing (1) and then selects 2 out of 5 criteria in Emerging (2) then the vote would be 1.4.

• New Analyst permission

  • Analysts can view anonymous Results (aggregated results of at least 5 entities)

  • Analysts cannot participate in assessments or build templates. They are a read-only permission meant for those who consume high-level results.

• Blog moved to our main domain - over the next few weeks you will see our blog website redirecting to our main website as we migrate our posts

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • Separate mode assessment launch now has a decision page redirecting the facilitator to the assessment, assessment history, or back to launch another assessment

  • Participant not added to the participant list until they join the assessment

• Results improvements

  • New CSV Export on the criteria-level including the number of users that selected each criteria

  • Results % selected includes number of votes

    • Before: 50% selected

    • After: 50% (2/4) selected

  • Criteria to discuss added to Question Drilldown screen - the same “Criteria to Discuss” data found in the SAP is now below

  • If there is only one vote for a Question, that question will be excluded from the “Lowest Variability”

• Multi-lingual support - if the user’s language is something other than English, they will receive a notification on our home page that instructs them how to view our website in their language

• Minor Improvements

  • Height of large modals improved to use more space on larger monitors

  • Filter dropdowns no longer require 2 clicks

  • In Assessment History, the re-open button is disabled instead of hidden for completed and canceled assessments to explain why it can’t be re-opened.

  • Results PDF export now has a legend “Export Date/Time” next to the date/time

22.11.15 release (minor)

• New Homepage YouTube video

• Extend CSV export timeouts

• Update voting instructions in documentation

• Hide the NeuroXprofile dimensions and categories by default

22.11.03 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• New Cultural Transformation Out-of-the-Box template

• Minor improvements to the NeuroXprofile dashboard

22.10.30 release

• New NeuroXprofile Out-of-the-Box template

  • Out collaboration with Enterprise Agility University, this new template assesses your team and provides a modified Results dashboard experience

• Dashboard Calculations

  • Percentage Increase/Decrease calculation change

    • Before: (new - old) / 4.0 e.g. (3.0-2.0) / 4.0 = 25% increase

    • After: (new - old) / old e.g. (3.0-2.0)/2.0 = 50% increase

  • Change Group Trend dates

    • Before: First Assessment, End of last year, Previous Quarter, Latest Quarter

    • After: First Assessment, Previous Previous Quarter, Previous Quarter, Last Quarter

  • Configurable First Assessment Trend for Groups

    • When toggled OFF (default), the Organization will not see First Assessment Trend. Instead they will see the last 4 quarters.

    • When toggled ON, the Organization will see First Assessment Trend plus the last 3 quarters.

  • When viewing Results for an Entity, an asterisk and accompanying legend “* First Assessment” has been added to all widgets to identify the first assessment trend line

  • In Overall, Business Outcome, and Dimension Drilldowns, a new checkbox will toggle only showing immediate child groups and showing all descendant groups.

  • When viewing Results for an Entity, the “Compare To” boxes will not default to the parent group. Instead, the default will be no comparison.

  • The Results Comparison line color has been muted so it’s not so bright

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • Remove “Criteria Voting” organization setting and its effects

  • All participants will vote with Stage-then-Criteria voting style

    • When user first enters the question, only Stages are enabled, criteria checkboxes are disabled

    • After selecting a Stage, then criteria checkboxes to the right are enabled

    • An on-screen instructions banner will guide participants

  • Editing a Note is now more intuitive

    • Changed from “send” icon to a button that says “Save Note”

    • After saving the note, the note is disabled with button “Edit Note”

    • When “Edit Note” is clicked, the note becomes enabled and the “Save Note” button returns

  • Contention percentage wording changes

    • Stage level

      • Gray "No Contention" -> (blank)

      • Yellow “Contention” -> Yellow “Partial Agreement”

      • Green "100% voted" -> Green "Full Agreement"

    • Criteria level

      • Gray "0% voted" -> Gray "0% selected"

      • Yellow "X% voted" -> Yellow "X% selected"

      • Green "100% voted" -> Green "100% selected"

  • “Only one member will take this assessment” is now an option on assessments of all types - Individual, Team, or Agile at Scale.

• Small Enhancements

  • Create/Edit Entity - remove the optional Assign Team Attributes page

  • Added info icon with hover text to Groups column of Members screen

• Fixes

  • Assessment Completion emails will be sent for Separate assessments

  • Remove “Show Notes to Participants” in Separate mode

22.10.07 release (minor)

• Minor changes

  • Added support for defaulting promo code on Register page

22.09.21 release (minor)

• Minor changes

  • Team Performance Metrics criteria modified to match the progressive voting style

  • Restored “Your Rating” indicator in Self-Assessment Platform

  • Made Cancel/Suspend less confusing in Self-Assessment Platform

22.09.18 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Assessment Templates

  • Our main landing page has been redesigned with a new “card” layout

  • Filters allow you to find the template you are looking for - fast!

  • Recommended Templates allows each user to answer a few questions and then receive a recommendation on which templates are best for them

    • “View Results PDF“ shows a PDF version of our Results Dashboard for each Template

    • “Take Sample Assessment” feature allows users to take a shortened version of our most popular templates, to try them out (designed for first-time users of the platform).

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • Small redesign makes everything more compact

  • The sidebar is docked by default for non-facilitators to allow for more space for voting.

  • During Assessment Launch, Copy Link now copies an Invitation + Link to the assessment, to give users instructions.

  • “How to Vote” has been moved from the sidebar to a button in the Question

  • New warnings when navigating away from a Question without saving your Notes in Separate mode.

  • For new users to the platform, new guided mode shows voting instructions interactively on the screen during voting.

  • Participant-only users cannot use the same email as a registered member.

• Results

  • New “Role” Filter allows filtering votes by 1 or more user’s role.

• Emails

  • Redesigned look and feel give a fresh face to our automated emails

22.08.21 release (minor)

• Small Enhancements

  • New Participant-Only users export - find at the bottom of the Members page

  • Hide Assessment Summary completion % when viewing Results for an Entity because the data is repetitive and confusing. Now only shown when viewing data for a Group or Organization.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fix error when changing Organization name

22.08.14 release

• New “Metrics” Dimension

  • New Dimension “Metrics” can be used for Questions that record objective metric data

  • New Dimension Type field (either “Practice & Behavior Proficiency” or “Performance”)

• Verbiage changes

  • Practice -> Question

  • Practice Dimension -> Dimension

  • Agility Score -> Rating

• Signup (new accounts)

  • Thank you page after registering

  • After verifying your email, you can click a link to automatically login

  • Wording changes during Organization registration

• Small Enhancements

  • When Goal/Impediment is unchecked in the Results Question Trends widget, the hover tooltip will hide the list of teams with Goals/Impediments

  • In Member Attributes, if a member has more than 5 assigned Goals or Entities, the full list is capped at 5 shown with a “show more” link to show all. This reduces the amount of vertical consumed.

22.08.03 release (minor)

• Out-of-the-Box Template changes

  • New template Team Performance Metrics

  • Rename 8 of the Out-of-the-Box templates

    • Agile Team: Software Delivery Ways of Working >> Team Agility - Advanced

    • Agile Team: Software Delivery Ways of Working Lite >> Team Agility - Novice

    • Product-Centric Team – Ways of Working >> Product Team Agility

    • Technical Advancement >> Technical Agility

    • DevOps Fundamentals >> DevOps Agility

    • Multi-Team Agile Effort - Ways of Working >> Multi-Team Agility - Advanced

    • Multi-Team Agile Effort - Ways of Working Lite >> Multi-Team Agility - Novice

    • Agile Team: Non-Software Delivery Ways of Working >> Team Agility - Non-Software Delivery

22.07.31 release (minor)

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed error saving a practice with long criteria

22.07.23 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Administration

  • Audit Trail - a new menu item under Organization Setup audits all major actions in the system including when, who, and what was changed

  • Members assignable to Groups

    • Rather than only being assignable to Entities, assigning to a Group gives the user permission to all descendant Entities, allowing for lighter and easier to maintain configurations

• Templates

  • Custom Templates that have been used in an assessment can now be edited.

    • Assessments started before the edit maintain the old template definition while new assessments use the new template definition.

  • Replace Practice Historically

    • Make a one-for-one swap of one Practice for any other one Practice in ANY template. The new Practice inherits the old Practice’s historical scores. Select Copy/Customize on any used Practice and you will be prompted to Replace.

• Custom Metrics

  • Configurable number of visible metric values

    • Permitting the display of more than 8 values at once

  • Metric Value Bulk Upload - enter many metric values at once!

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • Allow users to check the Stage or the Criteria when voting, allowing for a more flexible way to take the assessment

• Results

  • Export Practice Details and Group Summary tables to CSV or Excel

22.06.04 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Results

  • New export - Entity responses in CSV format. The previous CSV export has been renamed to “User Responses (CSV)”

  • Results Performance improvements

• New Manage Business Outcomes Screen

  • Define your own Business outcomes and assign your custom Practices to them (available to Admins only)

• Integrations

  • SAML 2.0 integration for Organizations who opt in

  • “trial” has been removed from the paths from our URLs. While the old URLs will automatically forward to the new URL, we encourage you to change your links (bookmarks, shared links, etc) to prevent confusion.

• Small Enhancements

  • Organization Structure screen performance improvements

• Fixes

  • Criteria order in SAP matches criteria order defined in the Template Builder

22.05.07 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Revamped Custom Metrics

  • Metrics are now defined in Organization Setup (Admins only)

    • Definition includes name, unit, and an active flag

    • The 5-metric limit has been removed - define as many as you want!

  • Metrics are still visible at the bottom of the Insights Canvas

    • Metrics store history - instead of entering a metric value and trend, metric date-value pairs are entered and the trend is interpreted

    • Metrics show trend graphs and trend tables

    • Show/hide metrics, graphs, and table

• Results

  • New Results Assessment Filter “Assessment Date” - select an assessment between two dates.

  • New Results Assessment Filter “Entity’s Assessment Count” - select only assessments that belong to an Entity that has completed between a min and a max amount of assessments

  • Override Separate assessment Results from the Practice Drilldown (previously only Together allowed)

  • Can mark as goal/impediment when an Assessment Filter is applied

  • Show Last Assessment Facilitator in the Assessment Summary when viewing Results for an Entity

  • More precise scoring - all scores are displayed to two decimals

• Assessment Management

  • Used templates can now be deleted. Deleted templates are not visible for editing or launching assessments. But assessments already launched work as normal and Results will continue to be displayed.

    • This unlocks the ability to delete used Practices also. Deleted practices are not visible in the Practice Catalog but will continue to appear in Results.

  • Assessment History “Show X entries” lets you choose the table page size

  • Assessment History Excel and CSV export now available

• Self-Assessment Platform

  • Separate Assessment mode shows Participants in sidebar to all registered members

  • Notes from previous assessments are visible

  • Practice Drilldown performance improvement

• Small Enhancements

  • Ask for years in transformation during Organization registration and public assessment login

22.04.15 release (minor)

• Small Enhancements

  • Check/uncheck all when choosing Entity members to send email to when launching an assessment

    • Default is now unchecked

  • Hide already-selected Entities when editing a member

  • Auto focus search field on Entity dropdown when launching an assessment

  • Demo login

• Fixes

  • Reopened Separate assessments no longer navigate to the end of the assessment

  • Record team abstain correctly for Separate assessments

22.04.02 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Redesigned Self-Assessment Platform

  • New screen redesign with a sidebar that can be docked or hidden.

  • View the Entity Name, Template Name, Organization Name, Practice Attributes, and other static information

  • New Voting Results show graphical representations of the voting distribution and voting averages (in Together mode assessments)

    • Voting Distribution graph - how many voted for each stage

    • Practice Score graph - the Entity average/override score

    • First 3 contended voting criteria - the first 3 criteria with any amount of disagreement

  • Separate assessment Participants information has been removed. This information can be found in Assessment History “Completed By” column.

  • Updated style of the ‘Manage Existing’ modal

• Criteria-based Voting

  • Instead of voting for 1 of the 5 stages, each criteria (bullet point) is evaluated and checked if satisfied. If all criteria in a Stage are checked, then the Stage is checked (and vice versa).

  • Participants provided stage/scores will now be systematically calculated based on the criteria selected.

  • You can still revert to the old style of voting by simply selecting the Agility Stage and submitting your vote

  • The Override Vote will also allow individual criteria selection

  • The criteria with disagreement among participants are highlighted (in the voting section) when voting is complete and Voting Results are displayed.

  • The Agility Stages with disagreement are highlighted with text “100% voted”, “Contention”, or “No Contention”when voting is complete and Voting Results are displayed.

• Assessment Management

  • Admins can reassign the facilitator of an assessment

  • More than one assessment can be in progress for a single Entity

  • On Assessment launch, choose who gets the assessment email invitation

  • Canceled assessments can be deleted

• Results Enhancements

  • Practice Details has configurable columns - add and remove whatever columns that fits your view

  • Practice Details new column “Action Items” displays all Action Items for each Practice

  • Practice Trends (spider) allows you to show/hide Goals and/or Impediments

  • Override Together assessment Results from the Practice Drilldown

  • PDF export of Scoring Summary exports both Practice Dimensions and Business Outcomes at the same time

  • Entity name and action buttons are always in view in dashboards

  • The word “Legend” is added to the Agility Score legend at the top of Results

• Small Enhancements

  • “Analyst” added to list of user roles

22.03.17 release (minor)

• New Template and Practices

  • The new Kanban 2022 template is now available

22.03.03 release (minor)

• Affiliate Referral Links

  • Support affiliate links and capture users who register with an affiliate link

22.03.01 release (minor)

• Small Enhancements

  • New white labeling partner

22.01.31 release (minor)

• Minor Fixes

  • Fix ability to add link in practice criteria

  • Fix removing all helpful resources from a practice

  • Hide old Launch New and Template Builder pages so users do not navigate to them based on browser history

22.01.07 release (minor)

• Small Enhancements

  • Style updates

22.01.02 release (minor)

• Small Enhancements

  • Template Builder Statistics style enhancements

  • GDPR cookie tracking compliance

  • Last Assessment Notes column added to Results Practice Details when viewing Results for an Entity

  • Practice Description is visible in the Results Practice Drilldown screen

  • Collect the Industry of public assessment participants

21.12.11 release

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• Redesigned Template Builder

  • Modern styles and behavior

  • Ability to view the details of all Practices in a Template at one time

  • Ability to edit the Template Name, Description, and Ideal For fields

  • New Practice Description gives you an idea of what the Practice assesses. Also customizable!

  • Practice reordering

  • Dimension reordering

• Redesigned Launch New (now called "Assessment Templates")

  • View a Template Preview before taking action

  • Actions like Launch, View/Customize, and Create Template from Scratch are available for quicker navigation.

• New Manage Practice Dimensions Screen

  • Define your own Practice Dimensions and assign your custom Practices to them (available to Admins only)

• Assessment Facilitator Assessment "No Vote" Option

  • When launching an assessment, the facilitator will have the ability to indicate that they are not providing a vote, allowing for fewer clicks and a more seamless experience.

• Small Enhancements

  • Results Practice Level filter.

  • Results Improvement Action filter - filter for Practices that have an open Improvement Action to easier find and manage your Improvement Actions

  • Ability to individually unsubscribe from Entity assessment email reminders

  • Duplicate practices removed if unused

  • Duplicate practice criteria removed

21.10.21 release (minor)

• Fixes

  • Increase the amount of time permitted to load data for large organizations

  • Make Technique Criteria the default tab for the Results Practice Drilldown

  • Show message when Impediment/Goal marking is not available while an Assessment filter is applied

  • Fix Template Builder Create Practice defaulting to uneditable fields

21.10.16 release

• Features

  • Trend (since First assessment) metric added to Results: Overall Average drilldown, Business Outcome drilldown, Practice Dimension drilldown, Group Summary, Practice Details, and Scoring Summary

  • Results Template Filter changed from a Practice Filter to an Assessment Filter - it will now filter for assessments taken with the chosen Templates instead of filtering for the Practices that are in the Template

  • Ability to enter a promo code during registration

  • Feedback modal added - ability to collect user feedback about LAI

  • Practice Dimension definitions added to Template Builder

  • Participant link added to Manage Existing and Assessment History

  • Practice Level rename (Portfolio/Program -> Multi-Level, Enterprise -> Organization)

• Fixes

  • Maintain sort order of Practices in Template after saving a Practice in the Template Builder

  • Editing of Out-of-the-box Practices is now clearer - only the Helpful Resources become editable and a clear message is displayed so the user knows that Out-of-the-box Practices are only partially editable

  • Results mobile layout improvements

21.09.22 release (minor)

• Fixes

  • Invited members are now not set to active instead of inactive

  • Practice drilldown shows Starting votes

21.09.18 release

view our release announcement and more details here

• Features

  • Email reminders to take quarterly assessment - can be turned on/off on Entity level.

  • Results Notes filter - filters all Practices to show only those that have a user note. Can be filtered since First Assessment or since Last Assessment.

  • Overall Average drilldown - see tabular Results for all Entities in a Group including Agility Stage counts and the Trend

  • Business Outcome drilldown

  • Practice Dimension drilldown

  • Group Summary widget - highly customizable widget to display tabular Results

  • New Trends dashboard to show the Business Outcome and Practice Dimension trend over time

  • Overall Average widget is now the Current Snapshot widget that also shows Agility Stage definition, Total Goals, Total Impediments, and Trends

  • Business Outcome Impacts widget now supports the same view of data for Practice Dimensions and has been renamed to Scoring Summary

  • New widget Practice Improvement since First Assessment that shows the highest improving and lowest improving Practices since the first assessment

  • New widget Total Previous Impediments/Goals that shows the Practices with the highest number of Impediments and the Practices with the highest number of Goals in the previous assessment

• Improvements

  • Improvement Action Link is no longer mandatory

  • Template filter list refreshes on Entity/Group selection to show only Templates that are applicable to that Entity/Group

  • Force all links in Practice Criteria to open in a new tab

  • Add new Member directly in grid instead of a popup

  • Practice drilldown has frozen header and summary row

  • Improve PDF export headers

  • Assessment Summary is a widget instead of on the left-hand navigation bar

  • Business Outcome Impacts now is sorted from highest to lowest score and includes percent increase/decrease with Trend

  • The Total Goals/Impediments widget on Entity level now shows the top 8 Goals and the top 8 Impediments

21.07.26 release (MINOR)

• Improvements

  • Added count of Assessment Participants to Account screen

21.06.23 release (MINOR)

• Improvements

  • Post-assessment calculation performance improvement

21.06.16 release (MINOR)

• Improvements

  • "Click to show your vote” added in Practice Drill Down

  • Default improvement action status is now Open instead of Closed

  • Moved Practice Improvement Recommendation Engine into its own button

• Fixes

  • Allow Facilitators to edit Improvement Actions

  • Fix midpoint rounding issue in Overall Average widget

  • Fix Results CSV Export format being compromised by special characters in the Notes column

21.06.13 release

• Features

  • New API - write your own software and integrate with LAI data

  • Helpful Resources - attach information and hyperlinks to any Practice to be viewed in the Template Builder and the Results Practice Drill Down

  • Improvement Actions - add a list of actions (including a hyperlink and status) for an Entity to a Practice in the Practice Drill Down screen. View aggregated Improvement Actions on the Group and Organization levels.

  • Redesigned Assessment History screen

  • Admins can edit the Organization Name in the Account screen

  • Admins can disable Results “Compare with” feature in the Account screen for all Organization members

  • Results Assessment Summary now includes the following data

    • Name of last assessment template taken

    • Total number of Practices answered

    • Total number of Entities that have taken an assessment

  • New Results Filters ‘Practice Recommendation Improvement Engine’ button to help the user filter their results

• Improvements

  • Support Practice Dimension of ‘Other’ the same as any other Practice Dimension (including adding to Filters and displaying appropriately)

  • A Participant-only user who completes an assessment in Separate mode and re-enters the assessment after completing will not mark it as In Progress again.

• Fixes

  • Copying Entities from another member in Member Attributes will work even in the case that an Entity was recently added to the member

  • Member Attributes refresh preserves the collapsed/expanded nodes to preserve the user’s position on the page

21.05.16 release

• Features

  • Entity Tagging - all Result widgets are filterable by any combination of Entity Tags

  • Organization Structure redesign

  • Member Attributes redesign - including export, sorting, filtering, and counts

  • Delete Entity - users can now delete an Entity instead of only being able to inactivate them

  • Ability to re-invite one user (instead of re-inviting all)

  • New Overall Average widget

• Improvements

  • Deletion of an assessment is not permanent

  • Expand all/collapse all in Organization Structure screen and Results hierarchy screen

  • Group dropdowns are searchable

  • Entity Attribute questions are now optional

21.04.22 release (MINOR)

• Improvements

  • Ability to add HTML links into Practice criteria

21.04.08 release (MINOR)

• Improvements

  • Trends widget color scheme and style changes

  • Participant-only users now have disclaimer of Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before logging in

  • New widget for Templates Available when taking a public assessment

  • Hide comparison drop down, but still compare for all Results widgets when taking a public assessment

21.03.21 release

• Features

  • Show/hide individual trends in the Practice Trends widget

  • Compare Entity trends with Organization/Groups in the Practice Trends widget

  • Results Excel export is filterable

  • In-app payments

  • “Public assessment” support (not directly available to users, contact us if interested)

• Improvements

  • Previous trends in all widgets are specific with Agility Score (instead of Agility Stage)

  • Template Builder minor UI improvements

  • Practice Details widget sortable columns

  • Assessment Summary completion percentage only considers teams who have completed at least one assessment

21.02.14 release

• Features

  • Redesigned Home page

  • Redesigned Contact Us page

  • Enhanced sign-up experience

  • Business Outcome Summary and Practice Summary widgets are now larger and have frozen rows and columns to provide a heat map view

  • ‘Assessment Number’ added to Excel export

• Improvements

  • Vote Variability widget displays No Data if only one user took the assessment

  • Overall Average comparison feature follows user permissions

  • All widgets now collapse when No Data available

• Fixes

  • Practice Performance widget displays current Practice name, even when renamed

21.01.17 release

• Features

  • 68 new Practices and 9 new Templates available including ‘Scrum 2020’ and ‘Agile Team Ways of Working’

  • New Results dashboard UI redesign featuring intelligent, collapsible containers around each widget, links to Help documentation, and an improved PDF export

  • New Filters available for all dashboards and widgets. Filters include Business Outcome, Practice Dimension, and Template.

  • New Practice Performance widget displaying the top-performing and bottom-performing Practices overall

  • New Total Goals/Impediments widget displaying the Practices with the most Goals and the Practices with the most Impediments

  • New Overall Average widget displaying Trends over time and the ability to compare Entity Trends to a Group or Organization

  • New Template Permissions available to control access to Templates within your Organization

• Improvements

  • Framework and Framework-Agnostic Practices are now categorized together as Out-of-the-Box

  • Overall look and feel of modals have been improved

  • Ability to block new users from signing up for a specific domain

• Fixes

  • Fixed edge case where the wrong Practice Dimensions could be displayed around the perimeter of the Spider widget

20.11.29 release

• Features

  • Core custom branding capabilities

  • Ability for assessment participants to abstain from voting

  • Ability to automatically complete an individual assessment with only one user taking it

  • Excel extract contains all data now, including historical data

  • Excel extract - added Impediments and Goals columns

• Improvements

  • Separated log in and sign up pages

  • Changed Template Builder Practice Level filter from single select to multi-select

  • General performance improvements in the Self-Assessment Platform

  • Excel extract - reduced export time

  • Performance improvements of Practice Details popup

  • Performance improvements of Member Attributes screen

• Fixes

  • Rejoining an assessment as participant-only now only uses your email to identify you, not your email and display name

  • Filters are no longer lost when saving practices in the Template Builder

  • Newly-created practices in the Template Builder are now inserted in alphabetical order, instead of at the end of the list

  • Fixed order of practices within template when saving

20.10.06 release

• Fixed issue with Template Builder replace practice question box not appearing

• Minor verbiage changes

20.10.04 Release

• Organization/Members

  • Teams are now called Entities and they are given a type of Individual, Team, or Agile at Scale. An individual entity can only take individual assessments, a team entity can only take team assessments, etc.

• Templates

  • Template categories have been changed from Framework, Framework-Agnostic, and Custom to Individual, Team, and Agile at Scale

  • New standard template ‘Product Owner’, written by Bob Galen

  • Performance of Template Builder improved

  • Minor updates to usability of Template Builder

• Assessments

  • Historical notes are now available in the Self-Assessment Platform

  • Marking Impediments, Goals, Override, and Re-vote triggers a system-generated note for auditing purposes

  • Performance of the Self-Assessment platform improved

  • Performance of Assessment History improved

  • Fixed issue with in-progress assessments appearing as completed upon assessment continuation

• Results

  • Changed Overall Average bar chart to be more precise by switching from Agility Stages to the overall average score

  • Changed Excel export to export the latest score for each practice for each team. Previously, it was exporting only the practices from the last taken assessment for each team.

  • Notes included in Excel export

  • Synchronize trend colors between our Insights Dashboard radar chart and the Business Outcome Trends chart

  • Performance of Results as a Facilitator improved

  • UI improvements around the Practice Details popup in the Insights Canvas radar chart

20.09.19 Release

• Add Google reCAPTCHA to the login screen

20.09.15 Release

• Simplify Contact Us screen

20.08.29 Release

• Improved Launch New performance

20.08.27 Release

• Improved login performance

20.08.23 Release

• Changed verbiage throughout the application to be more intuitive and consistent

• Fixed results filtering issue that displayed more practices than it should

• Added ability to re-open a cancelled assessment

• Enhanced UI scaling

• Tightened permissions around users not assigned to teams

• Legend added to Practice Details results screen

• Improved performance around the Organization Structure screen

• Fixed re-invites of pending users sometimes failing

• Removed notes from the Practice Details screen

• Added error handling to mitigate and troubleshoot random redirects

20.08.02 Release

• Application Performance Enhancements

• Changed sort order in Organization Structure, Team creation drop down menus, and Team details in spider drill down to be in alphabetical order.

• Changed sort order of Assessment History to be by time stamp.

• In Assessment History, teams are now only visible by users who have been assigned to them.

• In Results, trends now go back to the beginning of time.

20.06.23 Release

New Functionality:

• A new permission type for “Facilitator” has been added.

  • Facilitators can conduct assessments and review results for all assigned teams. If assigned to all teams in a group, group results will be viewable.

  • Facilitators have read only access to the template builder.

• Added a detailed view when selecting a practice on the Insights Canvas or Practice Details results. The additions are as follows…

  • View the Agility Stage criteria and your vote for the practice.

  • View notes and add new notes.

  • Mark as impediment or growth goal

  • View the Group, Practice Dimension, and Practice Level

  • View the impacted Business Outcomes

  • View the Team, Impediment, Growth Goal, Trend, Variability, and overall average.

  • When viewing a Group, you can scroll through all Teams in the group.

  • View the number of votes in each Agility Stage for the practice.

  • Teams can be selected and de-selected to filter results

  • Hide and unhide team details and Agility Stage criteria with your vote.

Enhancements:

• In the Self-Assessment Platform, users who voted now appear in the color “white”

• Improved performance of the Self-Assessment Platform when losing internet connection

• When in Group Assessment Mode, Team and Participant Only user votes will only be recording after selecting the “Submit” button.

• In the Analytics Results view, the top and lowest performing practices UI has changed. The circle colors now correspond to the actual score of the practice.

20.04.07 Release

Menu Changes:

A Resource link has been added.

• Frequently Asked Questions

New Framework Agnostic Assessments

• Added Agile Coach Assessment

New Functionality: 

• Added the ability to download a PDF of “Practice Details”

• Added the ability to view the history of completed assessments including:

  • The current status of the assessment (Closed, In Progress, Cancelled)

  • The assessment mode

  • The users email who launched the assessment

  • The date the assessment was completed

  • The total number of assessments completed and how many users have completed a given assessment in individual mode.

  • The user who completed the assessment

  • The total number of questions in an assessment

• Added the ability to delete previously completed assessments

• Added the ability to re-open assessments so that users who did not complete it can do so

Enhancements:

• Minor bug fixes

• Now super users can only see results for certain teams/groups that they belong to.
  

   If Super Users and Team Members belong to all teams in a group or org, they can see the rollups in that group or org

20.01.18 Release

Menu Changes:

• A Resource link has been added: “Source References”

New Framework Agnostic Assessments

• Added Agile Leadership Assessment

• Added Scrum Master Assessment

New Functionality: 

• Added the ability to participate in an assessment while NOT being a registered user.

• Added the ability filter by Business Outcome, “Level” (including Enterprise, Portfolio, Program, and Team) in the Template Builder.

• Added the ability filter by Template “Type” in the Template Builder.

• Added the ability to filter by name via a search field in the Template Builder.

Enhancements:

• Small UI changes to Insights Canvas including more detail around Voting Variability, Impediments/Goals, and Metrics

• Added new Pricing Information

• Button text changes to enhance user experience

• Trend colors in Analytics Dashboard have been changed to not conflict with main color scheme

• Updated Help Pages, Facilitators Guide, and Quick Start Guide

19.10.14 Release

Menu Changes:

• The template builder has moved under the Assessments Link and the Assessment Child Link names have been changed to:

• Launch New – (Launch all assessments)

• Participate in Existing – (If there already is an assessment in progress, this will take you directly)

• Template Builder – (Build and customize any assessment)

Resource links have been added. They are:

• Outcome Improvement Canvas – A canvas that helps with outcomes and measurements for coaching

• Outcome Improvement Plan – A template for creating coaching plans

• Blog – Direct link to the LAI Blog.

A services link has been added.

• This will take you to more information on LAI Service offerings.

Performance Improvements:

• Improved performance of logging in.

• Improved the performance of launch and loading assessments

• Improve the performance of loading results

• Significantly Improved the Performance of taking assessments, especially with more than 3 people at a time.

Enhancements:

• Enhanced UI of Insights Canvas

• Small UI changes to the home page

New Functionality:

• Added the ability to delete users from an organization

• Added new resource menu to the homepage with links to services and blog as well as an outcome improvement canvas and plan.

• Added ability to type filter for teams when launching assessments and in Member Attributes