The latest version of our project and portfolio management software – Hadrone PPM – has just been released to our Clients. We are excited to see how quickly our software is evolving, continuously addressing our Clients' current needs. The latest version includes the following new features:

1. Issue register [2024 ROADMAP]

Issues are now available in a new „Issues” tab within each project, as well as in the lower panel beneath the project schedule (issues can optionally be linked to the schedule). A dictionary of issue types has also been added to the system configuration.

Working with issues includes creating, editing, viewing, opening/closing and deleting issues, as well as creating tasks related to issue handling. In the project schedule, an additional column can now be displayed to show issues linked to specific activities or milestones (similar to risks). Project Managers, Project Coordinators and users with edit permissions for any project can manage issues. This functionality can be enabled or disabled in the specific project configuration.

Issues are also integrated into the Project card and Project card template, Task/Activity/Milestone reports, Notifications and their settings, and the API.

2. Project organization changes in Change requests [2024 ROADMAP]

We have introduced the ability to propose changes to the project organization structure – including the Steering Committee Chair, Steering Committee Members, Project Manager and Project Coordinators. A new „Organization” tab has been added to the change request, allowing users to select organizational changes to include in the request.

Approval of organizational changes follows the existing approval process. These changes are also tracked in the baseline change history, like all other changes.

API methods and webhooks have been updated accordingly (details below).

3. Change requests – area-based summaries [2024 ROADMAP]

The Baseline Plan screen has been redesigned. It now includes three tabs:

  • current state,
  • change requests,
  • change history – areas.

The „Current state” tab presents a summary of deviations from the baseline and detailed variances broken down by area (Organization, Goal, Scope, Schedule, Expenses, Competences, Effects).

The „Change requests” tab displays a list of submitted requests with access to their details (as before). We’ve also added filtering by affected area(s).

The „Change history – areas” tab displays summaries of changes made within each area, including the related change requests.

4. Competence analysis – filtering by Competence Centers [2024 ROADMAP]

On the „Competences >> Analysis” and „My Dashboard >> Competences” screens, users can now filter by Competence Centers.

5. Mail-to button [2024 ROADMAP]

We've added a „mail-to” option, allowing users to send emails to other users using their registered email addresses. This option is available on the detail screens for actions, milestones and tasks. Any user with viewing permissions for a screen can use this feature.

The mail-to function is accessible by clicking on the user’s email address (if displayed) or on the mail icon next to the user’s name.

When used, it opens a new email in the default mail Client with the recipient’s address pre-filled.

6. Project status effects

Two new sections have been added to the Project >> Status >> Status screen: „Benefits” and „Disbenefits.” These sections appear after „Competences” and summarize the project’s effects (similar to the expenses summary).

7. Menu redesign

The application menu has been redesigned to simplify navigation between features. Template naming has also been standardized (we’ve dropped the term „patterns”).

8. API changes

We added API methods for handling issues and modified the „Get task" method by adding the „Issue" parameter to the returned „Task" object.

In the existing Project >> Change request tag, new methods were added („Get project organization change request decisions", „Add decision to project organization change request", „Remove decision from project organization change request"). In the existing „Get project open change request” method, the ChangeRequest structure was extended with the following fields: HasOrganizationChanges (boolean), NumberOfOrganizationChanges (int).

We created a new category called „Templates” and moved „Schedule templates”, „Project checklist templates” and „Risk templates” into it (changed from „definitions” to „templates”).

We added an API method to retrieve project organization data from multiple projects at once (to speed up fetching data about assigning many users to roles and functions in projects).

In the „Get competence centre's competences" method, we added the „description" field.

9. Webhook Changes

For change request events („Creation” and „Status Change”), we added new parameters in the ChangeRequestInfo object: a flag for changes to each specific role and the number of organization-related changes in the request.

When a change request involving organizational changes is approved, the appropriate organization-related webhooks are triggered – „Add project member” and „Remove project member.”