Release Notes for February 13, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope this set of updates allows you to share the love with your athletes.
Driving Forces
During the January Coaches Working Group we had a discussion around the importance of athletes buying in to their North Star. The North Star should not be a set-it and forget it kind of thing. It is the mantra, phrase, or summary of the mission for this season. If the mission has changed over time, the coach & athlete should adjust the North Star to better align to the now current state of affairs.
The primary focus of this release is keeping the North Star fresh in the athlete’s mind, with supporting features to enable coaches to manage this effectively on an athlete by athlete basis.
A review of the previous release notes, specifically around the navigation metaphor is also useful context for this release.
Connecting Features to the primary focus
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Keeping North Star Fresh in Athlete’s Mind
The tactic is simple one - actually show the North Star to the athlete on a weekly basis. This is accomplished by changing the weekly email to now include the athlete’s North Star in a dedicated section. The North Star section can be controlled on an athlete by athlete basis (more on this below).
When North Star is excluded from weekly email
(no change from what athletes currently receive).
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Managing when North Star is sent to Athlete
A number of features have been added to help manage which athletes receive the North Star section in their weekly email.
But first the default rules. The North Star section is EXCLUDED from emails under the following conditions:
- No Season Canvas Exists
- North Star text on current Season Canvas is Empty
- “Include North Star” is UNCHECKED on the Season Canvas
In all other cases the North Star will be included on the weekly email to the athlete.
To manage the inclusion of North Star on an athlete by athlete basis, a check box has been added to the Athlete Profile page, as well as the Season Canvas page (see video below for a demonstration).
To see which athletes are currently being sent their North Star a new north star icon has been added to the Roster Panel (see video below for a demonstration).
Other Enchantments and bug fixes
Example Header with the Tri-Hard Endurance Sports Coaching branding
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Multiple Tweaks to the user interface
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Expand / Collapse all text fields on Season Canvas (in demonstration video)
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Warning for future dated Plan Cards (in demonstration video)
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Updated Language on Analysis Panel. The chart is now titled “Reported vs Available Hours of Training” (in demonstration video).
Using the same logic as why “Planned” hours was a misleading term, I felt “Actual” hours is similarly misleading, at least until the system is integrated with other tools (Strava, Training Peaks, Today’s Plan), so the term “Reported” has been used to describe what is being plotted in the chart.
- Full athlete comments on analysis panel
The Athlete’s Weekly Summary as well as any Injury or Illness comments are now included in the “Athlete Weekly Reviews” stack on the Analysis Panel.
- Language on Plan Card from email to “Athlete Messages”
Updated the language to edit the Plan Card associated email to the athlete, to make it explicit this is a message for the athlete.
Direct Link to Video if embedding doesn’t work.
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