BigPicture 8.53.0
Release date: Jun 5, 2025
Our team is thrilled to announce the latest release of BigPicture, version 8.53.0.
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New
Timebox schedules
The timebox schedule (TS) feature helps standardize planning across teams working in recurring cycles, like sprints, program increments, or quarters. It's especially useful for organizations following Agile, SAFe, or similar frameworks, where consistent time-based structures are key. But it can also be utilized by organizations working in classic frameworks like Waterfall to visualize fiscal years or quarters on the timeline. To learn more, see the Timebox schedules page.
With timebox schedules, you can:
Define a timebox schedule with multiple levels and sequential dates.
Apply schedules to multiple boxes.
Ensure the same timebox structure across multiple projects, with a single place to manage those timeboxes.
Additionally, for each timebox schedule, you can perform the following actions:
Change the TS name
Add or change a description
Add or remove global teams
Remove boxes associated with the selected TS
Use existing sprints to generate a timebox schedule
When you set up a new timebox schedule, you can choose to turn on automatic timebox creation.
Note: This cannot be enabled for an existing schedule.
Next, connect a timebox schedule to a Jira board to ensure correct synchronization. Timeboxes will be created automatically, and their content will be synchronized with Jira sprints.
When a sprint-based timebox schedule is assigned to a box, the board is automatically added to the scope of the box to ensure all tasks from your board are included.
Filters
New swimlane filters in the Resources module
You can now filter each swimlane individually by:
Individuals
Teams
Projects
Skills
Workload and capacity
In addition, you can Hide unassigned swimlanes and Hide swimlanes with no tasks.
To learn more, see the https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DLP/pages/1989378139 page.
Enhancements
Custom filter panel
Filter by empty values in the custom filter panel
You can filter the result by empty value for the following fields:
Assignee
Milestone
Risk consequence
Risk probability
Any external platform field based on the select data type
To learn more, see the https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DLP/pages/298093463 page.
The custom filters panel can be used to filter by skills, issue type, and priority
The custom filters panel lets you filter by Jira labels
Quick Filters
Add quick filter shortcuts to your screen
Use the toggle switch to turn the feature on. Click the star icon to add filters to your favorites.
Shortcuts to your favorite quick filters are visible at the top.
Resources module
Scroll down without losing the timebox context
When you scroll down, the timebox information stays pinned to the top.
Note: Display settings must be adjusted to show timeboxes.
Use the ‘No Iteration’ swimlane to identify tasks that aren’t assigned to timeboxes
When you adjust the view of the Resources module to display ‘projects’ swimlanes (swimlanes based on timeboxes, at the top, you will find the No Iteration swimlane. It contains tasks that aren’t assigned to any timeboxes.
Note: Unavailable for portfolio boxes.
The No Iteration swimlane is also available when you group swimlanes by project.
Information about a user not being in any team is visible under the resource name
Information is visible when a resource hasn’t been added to any team in a box, and the selected effort mode unit is %.
You can adjust the view to display vertical grid lines
Time period - W/M/Q - by days
Time period - H/Y - by weeks
Board module
Timebox dates are visible in the board module
Resource Archiving
Information about when the resource was archived is accessible on the resource page
Roles and permissions
Sub-box creator in a Home box has readonly access to Global Teams
When someone has been assigned the sub-box creator role in the Home box, they can see the Global Teams details in the Home box, but they cannot edit the Global Teams.
When a user is added to a box, they automatically gain access to the app
When an app admin adds a new user to a box, the new user is also added as an app user and gains access to the app.
Note: Works only when the app admin is the person who performs the action.
A warning is shown if an app user doesn’t have access to any boxes
When a user has been granted access to the app (has been assigned an app user role), but they haven't been assigned any boxes (the user doesn’t have any box roles) a message is shown in the Security tab of App Administration.
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