1. RevMan demos 2025

Roadmap




Product team OKRs

  1. Objective: Drive uptake of the focussed review format
    KR: When we switch the remaining reviews to FRF, there are no requests to roll them back to the old format
  2. Objective: Reduce opportunities for errors in submitted text
    KR: The number of reviews that pass the QA editor check for "Possible data entry errors" increases by 20%
    KR: The number of reviews that pass the QA editor check for "Key findings consistent across the summary versions" increases by 20%
  3. Objective: Improve the usability/stability of RevMan
    KR: Post-submission, users are 'somewhat satisfied' or 'very satisfied' in at least 95% of cases.
  4. Objective: Improve data interoperability with other tools in the review production ecosystem
    KR: An additional 2 tools support the import or export of RevMan data, including 1 guideline development tool.

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Goal 1: All data package changes agreed (RMW-4976) in code review

Goal 2: Evaluate new test report tool

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20251128_111537-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. New options and defaults for setting direction of outcomes
  2. Make it more clear which sections will be published in protocol stage (Bakhtiar)
  3. Ensure the heading Differences between protocol and reviews is not published in protocol stage (Bakhtiar)
  4. Enhancing the notification feature for dynamic analysis result updates (Rasmus)
  5. Improve word count with tracked changes (Rasmus)

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Goal 1: Remove dependency on WAMP

Goal 2: Everyone has added their notes about refinement on retro board

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20251031_101511-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Subheading changes for different review types
  2. Replacement of the rapid review type with the flexible review type

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal: PICOtron ready to be used by CCA team

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20251003_101512-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Dynamic analysis result changes (Rasmus)
    1. Help authors review text close to dynamic analysis results
    2. Dynamic analysis results should have mathematical negative signs for negative numbers instead of hyphens
    3. Dynamic analysis results should separate large numbers with commas
  2. Show Abstract and PLS word count before limit in default and full-text view (Bakhtiar)
  3. Quick access to copy review title (Bakhtiar)
  4. Hide away controls to set labels on the analysis group editing screen (Roman)

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal 1: Samples for heading changes delivered to Wiley man running 

Sprint goal 2: Enhancements for study-centric data ready for promotion campaign man running 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250919_101514-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Replace PICOtron with a service that is not dependent on RM5 format
  2. More robust Risk of Bias import
  3. Identify continuous outcomes in study data import 

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal 1: Understand PICOtron enough to start preparing enhancements 

Sprint goal 2: One 3 amigo session with Chioma

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250905_101523-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Study-centric data: you can order interventions, covariates and outcomes to organize review criteria and define the order in which automatic analysis subgroups are presented.
  2. The date and time of the event can be defined when simulating EM decisions for the decision log

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal 1: This sprint, we channel our inner toddler: if we can touch it, we drag it.

Sprint goal 2: All team members know how to make ingested submissions

Demo

  1. Mark warnings as considered (Denis)
  2. Drag and drop analyses (Bakhtiar)

Sprint Review  

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250808_101521-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Adjust heterogeneity estimator and method for confidence interval in investigate sensitivity analysis feature - Bakthiar
  2. Default intervention labels for forest plots - Bakthiar
  3. Total number of participants for SCD contrast results - Rasmus
  4. Download flow diagram as SVG - Roman
  5. Ability to search within a category of a portfolio - Roman

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

  1. Study centric improvements man running 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250627_101525-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Simpler access to edit analyses
  2. Improved workflow for adding and editing figures
  3. Full-text view updated with improved text editor from proof view

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

  1. Enable inline comments on production check mark button 
  2. Environments refreshed for the first time in 6 years check mark button 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250613_101519-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Inline commenting system
  2. Banners in RevMan and Porto
  3. Completing or deleting the last task now automatically prompts milestone completion
  4. EM rescinded decisions are supported and tracked in the decision log

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

  1. E2E tests passes check mark button 
  2.  No Archie related code remains check mark button 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250502_101622-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Showcase of the new text editing component that aim to improve find and replace workflow and support copy editors in a better way (work name: proof view, plan to make available to all copy editors today)
  2. Users can add and insert additional/other references in one go with the DOI lookup from Crossref.
  3. Pre-print package updated to exclude Editors and Citation

Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal 1: get feedback from copy editors on proof view (ideally on production) check mark button 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250404_101532-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Granular org level permissions (read and write access to Cochrane portfolio) 
  2. Collapsing project management panel and showing Milestones and task summary in panel
  3. Pre-prints

'Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Sprint goal 1: All work releated to retire Archie released man running 

Sprint goal 2: Both proof views released (or one if it is significantly better) man running 

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250321_101507-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Dynamic analysis results for subgroups
  2. Change default for Summary effect CI to Wald
  3. Tables in landscape mode in PDF
  4. Improved performance when finding reviews in your organization


Sprint Review  

Sprint focus 🎯

Goal 1: We have clear data on performance of new view check mark button 

Goal 2: Copy editors have given feedback on the new view check mark button ​

Demo RevMan sprint demo-20250221_101521-Meeting Recording.mp4

  1. Include figure number in dynamic analysis results and stop supporting analysis number
  2. Change to student t-test for analyses using HKSJ
  3. Disable validation warnings and UI messages with recommendations for new random effects methods