What is new

The changes worth knowing about, in the words you would use rather than the ones the code uses. Updates arrive on their own: nothing to install, no downtime, and your workbook keeps working through every one of them.

Live now0.70 Only major releases are listed. The maintenance in between is the kind nobody should have to read about.
0.70Live now

Your agent page says one thing at a time

Every page was showing you everything it knew, which meant reading all of it to find the one line that mattered. Each section now makes a single point, and the rows behind it open underneath when you want them.

New
  • Program map. Your departments, process areas and what waits on what, drawn from the workbook rather than described in a list
  • What changed. The Report opens on what moved since you last looked, which is the question everybody was asking it first anyway
  • Capacity. Forecast effort by month and by team, rebuilt every morning, with nothing to fill in
Better
  • The Report is seven lines with the working folded behind each one. Quality and risk stays open, because it is the one you should not be able to skip
  • The steering pack reads as a meeting agenda rather than a second copy of the Report
  • A page with nothing behind it is no longer in the menu at all, so what you see is an honest picture of how far your program has got
  • Gaps are stated as gaps: four with no owner, rather than two hundred of two hundred and four owned
Fixed
  • The chat inside your Google Sheet, which had never worked for anyone. Your browser was refusing the connection for a reason no setting could fix, so it now goes the long way round and works
  • The program map and the capacity view were both empty for the same reason: a link written as DEP-001 — Customs Brokerage was being looked up as one or the other, and matched neither
0.66

A workbook you can find your way around

Thirty-six tabs with nothing to tell them apart is a filing cabinet, not a workbook. They are now coloured into three groups, and the colour tells you whether a tab is yours.

New
  • Green, amber, grey. Green is yours to fill in and read. Amber appears when the program reaches it. Grey is the agent’s own working memory, and hidden
  • Start here replaces the Welcome and Readme tabs with one live checklist that ticks itself as you fill things in, and links straight into whatever is still empty
Better
  • Every data tab now wears the same clothes: the same headings, the same margins, the same type. It was eleven different looks
  • A date typed as text is converted to a real date, so it sorts and compares like one
  • Tabs you had finished with — the old dashboard and the steering view — are gone rather than sitting there empty
Fixed
  • Column headings that were invisible on four tabs, because the styling had been measuring the table to the wrong edge
  • Three errors that had been appearing on every Refresh for weeks. Each one was the workbook rewriting a cell it had been told to leave alone
  • Test scripts stopped being written into the workbook on 17 August and nobody noticed until now. They are back
0.64

The morning got a lot quicker

Nothing you can see changed, which is the point. The nightly run across every program used to take five and a half minutes and now takes under one, and that is the difference between every program being ready before eight and some of them being ready whenever.

Better
  • The nightly sweep across every program: 335 seconds down to 52
  • Refresh inside your own workbook: 250 seconds down to 160, by not rebuilding the things nobody changed
  • Column auto-resize is gone. It never sized to your data and it undid the widths you set yourself
0.61

One-tap answers you can trust from any inbox

The morning brief is now built from the same design system as everything else the agent sends, and a whole class of broken answer links is gone.

New
  • Every brief carries the date it was sent, so a forwarded one still says which morning it is
Better
  • The brief is easier to answer on a phone: bigger tap targets, clearer status colours, and it renders the same in Outlook, Gmail and Apple Mail
  • Your team reads All good, Running late and Stuck. The workbook keeps its own wording, so nothing you have built on it changes
Fixed
  • Answer links that worked in a private window but failed for anyone signed in to more than one Google account
  • A brief that lost its formatting in some mail clients
0.60

Links that keep working after every update

Publishing a new version used to be able to quietly break the answer links already sitting in people’s inboxes. It cannot any more.

New
  • Answer links are pinned, so an email sent last week still works after this week’s update
  • Your deployment now checks its own links and says so, rather than waiting for somebody to report a dead one

Anything older than this predates HeyPM being offered to anyone outside my own programs, so there is nothing here worth reading. If you are running it and want to know exactly what changed in a specific week, ask me and I will tell you.