Following recent learnings and feedback from our community we’ve decided to make changes to how we communicate our development plans. This small but essential change will help better manage user expectations and allow our developers to focus on exceptional development and not public deadlines.
Moving forward the Enhance roadmap will highlight two categories - ‘Under development’ and ‘Approved’ features.
Approved are features which are waiting to have development time assigned to them. Approved features have been turned into user stories and have undergone research for technical feasibility.
Under development are features which are currently in the hands of our development team. The feature will undergo implementation and testing before it is deployed and released.
A release date for ‘Approved’ or ‘Under development’ features will not be provided.
Both ‘Approved’ and ‘Under development’ features are subject to change.
When will this change come into effect?
Immediately, if you head over to the Enhance roadmap now you will notice that the change is already live.
How will we know when a feature will be released?
We are no longer providing expected release dates. When it comes to prioritising features, there are a number of factors we take into consideration including independencies of features, community requests and feedback. The priority of features is subject to change.
What, why are you making this change?
In the past, we’ve shared estimated release dates for features on our roadmap.
On more than one occasion, the date for a scheduled release has been pushed back, features have been rescheduled, and on the very rare occasion features have even been removed from the roadmap.
These changes have been down to a mirage of different reasons from scope creep to unforeseen development and testing challenges, all of which take significant time and effort to perfect.
We appreciate that these delays are frustrating, especially for those users who have made business decisions based on the roadmap. Therefore, we’ve decided to overhaul our approach to simply highlight features which will be released imminently followed by features which are planned for release.
