One highlight of the new release is the capability of Clarity to automatically build Hierarchies by leveraging the parent-child-relationship of the underlying investment. Additionally, Risks, Issues, and Changes are available for Hierarchies and are configured via a Hierarchy Blueprint.
10 Reasons Why You Should Not Miss the Clarity Release 15.9.3
The new version 15.9.3 of Clarity is now available. We have summarized the highlights for you.
1. Automatically Built Hierarchies and Other Optimizations
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Contact us now2. Introduction of Visual Widgets to Graphically Analyze Data
With the new version, software manufacturer Broadcom introduced visual widgets that allow you to review and analyze data in a graphical format. These visual widgets are available for To Dos and the Hierarchy’s Risk, Issue, and Change modules.
3. Scenario Comparison and Other Powerful Roadmap Capabilities
With the reintroduction of scenario comparison, you have the ability to visually analyze Roadmap items comparing two different scenarios. Furthermore, incorporated blueprints provide administrators with configuration capabilities for Properties, Modules (including Channels), and Actions.
4. More Flexibility for Configuration of Business Rules
When configuring rules on blueprints, you will have further options, including the following:
- Making an entire record read-only
- Enforcing project attributes are required
- Dynamic execution of actions without the need to manually refresh a page
5. Key Improvements Delivered through Broadcom’s Customer Innovation Panel
Several key improvements have emerged from the monthly Customer Innovation Panel, where customers submit ideas and suggestions for improvement directly to software manufacturer Broadcom.
- Default saved views to “personal” with an option to publicly share
- Added Single Sign-on (SSO) support to display a corporate required message to end users upon login
- Custom per-period metrics (TSVs)
- Automatic renaming of access rights when Custom Investment or Custom Objects are renamed
- Ability to shift scheduled dates using relative “+” or “-“ controls
6. Improved Project Management User Experience
Additional features for project management in Clarity that further enhance the user experience are at your disposal now. These include:
- Editing of fields in the table adjacent to the Task timeline
- Ability to manage baselines
- Visual indicator for locked projects
- Definition of “actions” in a blueprint
7. New Staffing Grid and Other Refactored Resource Management Capabilities
The Staffing grid is now highly configurable and supports group by and export to CSV. Per-period metrics are included as well. Moreover, you can make use of a configurable Details flyout for Staffing items.
8. Various Other Quality-of-Life UX Improvements
- Further enhancements related to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard, with the inclusion of numerous foundational accessibility improvements encompassing visual design, responsive design, keyboard, and screen readers
- Renaming and translation of stock and custom field names
- Availability of the Status module for Ideas and Custom Investments
9. Powerful Governance Controls for Maximum Data Security
Field-level security has been introduced for the modules Risk, Issues, Changes, and Roadmaps as well as for the Team (or Staffing) object. This improvement aims to provide a robust data security framework to your company.
10. Clarity-Rally Connection Now Officially Supported
Regarding the Clarity-Rally integration, you can now make use of additional simple-to-use tools to map and synchronize Clarity and Rally lookups. Furthermore, there is added support for a bi-directional sync option in Clarity 15.9.3 to “update” Rally and Clarity when data changes are detected in either system.
The Innovations of Clarity 15.9.3 Illustrated
On their YouTube channel, software manufacturer CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company released a video series with clear explanation of all important new Clarity 15.9.3 features.
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Webcast on the New Release
In Broadcom’s free webcast on Wednesday, Aug 25 at 7:00 PM CET, you will get to know all the innovations of Clarity 15.9.3.
Release Notes
Details and full explanation of all changes of the upgrade to Clarity 15.9.3 can be found in the Broadcom release notes.
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