Changelog

Product updates and improvements.

1. Week ending October 2, 2026

   Planning Agent: Frankee now investigates your sprint instead of running a checklist.

   Every plan still gets the same four baseline checks: readiness, dependencies, carryover, and capacity. From there, Frankee decides what else is worth looking into based on what it found. For a sprint with a goal, it rates how well the planned work covers that goal (High, Medium, or Low), naming the stories that support it and anything that looks missing. If coverage shows a gap, Frankee searches your backlog for the work that would close it. If the goal is already covered, it skips the search. If there's no sprint goal, it skips goal checks entirely and says so.

   The plan now opens with one headline: the most important thing to know about this sprint, whether that's a goal the plan won't reach, blocked work, or a plan that's over capacity. Everything else Frankee found is ranked below it, with full details one click away. Every check shows a clear status, Confirmed, Unavailable, Failed, or Not yet checked, and Frankee never calls a plan ready when something couldn't be checked.

   You can also see exactly how Frankee got there. The evidence trail shows each check it ran, why, where the information came from, and what it found, saved as it was at the time.

   Also in this release: tighter team-level access controls across sprint planning, and an updated Planning Agent help article.

2. Week ending September 25, 2026

   Planning Agent: plans built from your whole backlog, not just the top of it.

   When your sprint has a goal, Frankee now scores every item in your backlog against that goal, so the work that actually serves it gets found even if it's ranked far down the list. Starting from an empty sprint, Frankee builds its proposal from the best goal-aligned work across your entire backlog. Reviewing a draft you've already started, it suggests goal-related backlog items your draft is missing, and you decide what to add.

   Also in this release: large story briefs, the ones with documents, prior work, and clarifying answers, no longer get cut off partway through generation.

3. Week ending September 4, 2026

   Planning Agent: Carryover and Dependencies.

   Frankee now recognizes unfinished work from your current sprint and surfaces it when you plan the next one, so it doesn't quietly get treated as new work or forgotten. Frankee is upfront about what's confirmed versus what's still uncertain while a sprint is in progress, and it never decides for you whether an item stays in the plan or goes back to the backlog.

   Frankee now reads dependency links already in Jira and Azure DevOps, plus dependencies mentioned in a story's own description, and flags anything that could block the sprint you're planning: work in your own backlog that isn't finished or planned yet, and work outside your team's control that's worth knowing about. Confirmed tracker links and inferred mentions are labeled separately, so you always know how certain the finding is.

   Also in this release: a round of reliability and security hardening across tracker connections, team setup, and sprint planning, including tighter access controls on connected integrations and fixes to how teams and their members get set up.

4. Week ending August 28, 2026

   Frankee's Planning Agent is live.

   Ask Frankee to help plan your next sprint and it pulls in your current sprint, next sprint, and top backlog items to ground a real proposed plan. It chooses a goal-led, scope-led, or hybrid strategy based on what it finds rather than making you pick one blind. If you already have a draft plan, Frankee reviews it in place instead of starting over.

   Every recommended item is checked against your team's active Definition of Ready, with a clear callout for anything that doesn't pass and why. When an item has a content gap, Frankee can draft a fix right in the conversation. You can accept it, edit it, or dismiss it, and accepted fixes are pushed to the tracker as a comment.

   You can also remove an item from the proposed plan with a visible record of what was dropped. And if readiness gaps are widespread across the plan, Frankee flags that too, so you can decide whether the sprint goal itself needs to be reconsidered.

   We also launched the new Frankee Help Center at frankee.ai/help, with articles covering tracker integrations, story generation, Definition of Ready, planning, retrospectives, daily standups, and more, plus a Getting Started guide and FAQ.

5. Week ending August 21, 2026

   Azure DevOps is now a first-class integration in Frankee, with the same core capabilities Jira teams already know. Connect your Azure DevOps project and Frankee handles story and epic pushes with Area Path set automatically, generates Sprint Review documents straight from your Azure DevOps data, and reads live board state for Daily Standup, the same as it does for Jira. This week we rounded that out with Action Item Agent support for Azure DevOps teams: every four hours, Frankee scans your team's recently closed work items across every type, from user stories to epics, and surfaces action items that got mentioned in a comment thread but never turned into their own ticket. Findings show up on your Agile Artifacts page with the same triage options as Jira, save one for retro, dismiss it, or push it straight into Azure DevOps as a new task. This supports the Agile and Scrum process templates.

6. Week ending August 7, 2026

   This was a big week for Kanban teams. Team setup, daily standups, and stakeholder reviews now all adapted for Kanban. Daily Standup Starter reads live board data to surface stuck cards, column bottlenecks, and priority work coming due. Stakeholder Review for Kanban teams lets you choose any date range, so completed work and upcoming priorities are scoped to exactly the window you pick. We also patched a handful of security dependencies behind the scenes and fixed a bug where the Daily Standup briefing was showing prior information under today's date.

7. Week ending July 25, 2026

   Sprint Review is easier to trust and easier to read this week. Dates now display in plain language, ticket references read as full sentences, and each section separates the headline from supporting detail so you can scan or dig in as needed. The narrative itself is more measured too — no inflated language, and story points, velocity, and capacity are no longer shown to stakeholders. Next Up now recommends a single priority with reasoning instead of listing the backlog, and a new section flags any work that fell outside the original plan. Exported Sprint Review documents now carry Frankee's branding as well.

8. Week ending July 17, 2026

   This was a big week for smarter story generation. Frankee can now use your team's uploaded documents — product specs, requirements docs, and other reference material — to generate stories with richer, more accurate context, and gives you AI-powered feedback on how complete your Product Context is right after you save it. If your team has an active Definition of Ready, Frankee now automatically applies those criteria when generating stories, so quality standards are baked in from the start instead of checked after the fact. We also fixed a couple of bugs affecting authentication and how personas and context fields displayed, and shored up dependency security behind the scenes to keep your data protected.

9. Week ending July 3, 2026

   This week brought several meaningful improvements to Frankee. The app is now fully mobile-responsive with a hamburger navigation, reflowed forms, and accessibility-standard touch targets — so you can use Frankee from any device. Frankee now remembers previously generated stories and uses that context when generating new ones, preventing duplicates and improving quality over time. New users now receive a welcome activation email and a rescue sequence if they get stuck in email verification. Scrum Masters and Product Owners can now create and activate a Definition of Ready using a starter template, keeping teams aligned on what 'ready' means before a story enters the sprint. Finally, the sidebar navigation has been redesigned and the home screen now greets you by role with personalized setup guidance for a better first-time experience.

10. Week ending June 26, 2026

    Two significant capabilities shipped this week. Agile teams can now generate stakeholder-ready sprint reviews directly from their Jira data and download them as Word documents — a complete end-to-end workflow for sprint review preparation. Additionally, Frankee now supports full Jira synchronization: when you push stories to Jira, epics are created automatically, stories are linked, and Jira issue keys are tracked back in Frankee for complete traceability.

11. Week ending June 19, 2026

    Frankee users can now reach the support team directly from within the app. A new contact form and direct email link provide a dual-channel support experience, making it easy to get help when you need it.