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Product releases for April-June 2023
Overview
In the last three months Microsoft Viva Goals has released a series of features enhancing our integration with Azure DevOps, EU Data Residency, and permissions (such as the new IT Admin role).
Feature Releases
- New Features:
- Viva Goals extension in Azure DevOps: With Viva Goals and Azure DevOps, you can automatically track progress of initiatives and key results in Viva Goals while ensuring that everyone using Azure DevOps has transparency to how their work items connect to the bigger picture.
- Enhanced Viva Goals Azure DevOps integration: Learn how to integrate your Azure DevOps work items with OKRs in Viva Goals.
- Goals EU Data Residency
- Notifications in Teams activity feed in Viva Goals: Learn how to receive notifications about activity from Viva Goals in Microsoft Teams.
- Viva Goals OKR level permissions enhancements
- Live people card within Viva Goals: Users can view people cards by hovering over a user image within Viva Goals, allowing them to see contact information and other data, similar to Microsoft 365
- New Tenant IT Admin role: Global administrators and Viva Goals administrators can configure the Viva Goals policy settings for the company from the Viva Goals admin portal page.
Content releases for April-June 2023
Overview
For the last quarter, Microsoft Viva Goals has focused on building strong content around best practices to support a healthy goals program. At the end of last quarter, we launched: Viva Goals Solutions- Discover goal-setting best practices with Viva Goals.
This quarter we have continued to grow these best practices and have developed content around five major categories:
- Create Goals and OKRs This area targets one of the biggest blockers to a successful OKR program, which is getting your Objectives, Key Results, and Initiatives written in a simple and comprehensive way that rolls throughout your organization.
- Collaborate with Viva Goals This area focuses on how to align your OKRs with your organization to help promote transparency and accountability across your separate teams and departments.
- Check-in and track Goals This area teaches how to build efficiency through check-ins to make sure goals are updated and progress is rolling through your organization.
- Close and score Goals This area demonstrates how to score and reflect on OKRs and Initiatives that have reached the end of their cycle and provides the tools for reviewing and restarting the OKR process in a new cycle.
- Business rhythms and dashboards This area focuses on the best ways to incorporate OKRs into your business rhythms. One of the most useful sections here is a series of templates with widget recommendations for building Dashboards in Viva Goals.
This quarter we have taken this structure and built it out to include overviews, common OKR program issues, and recommendations on how to improve in each area.
Content Releases
Additional changes that happened to learning content related to Viva Goals during Q4FY23
Admin content: Learn.microsoft.com
- Table of contents overhaul: the table of contents was changed to make navigating the Viva Goals content more intuitive.
- Added links to Viva Goals community in key articles.
- New Articles:
User content: Support.microsoft.com
- Table of contents overhaul: the table of contents was changed to make navigating the Viva Goals content more intuitive.
- Each article had a “Learn more” link added directing users to community.