We did a notable release last Saturday but forgot to tell you. Here it comes: Packages, or us we call in on Playground, Feature areas.
When will you use this: whenever your project does more than one type of thing.
Imagine you are developing a reservation system for a travel agency. It deals with customer data, hotel info, transportation info, etc. Each of these things will need to be addressed in the system.
Collecting the product features, you would end up with one giant pile of requirements that would be very difficult to work with.
Feature areas help you drill down into a specific product domain so that you can keep your focus and, if you are in a team where everyone has a different responsibility, also separate your workload accordingly.
Bonus - a huge one we think – comes at the end. After finalizing the requirements and planning the execution, you can now select a feature area and add all or some of the ideas it contains to an implementation Milestone (Release). That means no longer having to plan each feature individually!
This feature is available under all plans.