--- title: April Roundup! description: Catch up on what happened at Life QI in April. We released some new features in the Life QI system, so be sure to take a look! image: https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hubfs/April%20-%20Thumbnail%20-%20Image.png --- # April Roundup! ![Picture of Kerrie Preston](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hubfs/Kezza.png) Published on 30 April 2019 at 16:24 by [Kerrie Preston](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/author/kerrie-preston) ![April - Thumbnail - Image](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/April%20-%20Thumbnail%20-%20Image.png?width=1333&name=April%20-%20Thumbnail%20-%20Image.png "April - Thumbnail - Image") ##  This Month's Updates ... We mentioned in last month's roundup that there were some features being released in April ... they are now live on the system so be sure to take a look!   ##### You can now ... **1. **Access a full visual history of driver diagrams on projects **![driver-diagram-history](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/driver-diagram-history.png?width=540&name=driver-diagram-history.png)**   2. Plan and monitor your progress in projects and programmes on the updated Improvement Timeline  ![project timeline-1](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/project%20timeline-1.png?width=440&name=project%20timeline-1.png)   3. Visualize how active your project is and track changes made with the new timeline calendar ![timeline-calendar](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/timeline-calendar.png?width=454&name=timeline-calendar.png)   4. See the history of changes you have made throughout your project, with mini-timelines added to each field   ![Aim_timeline](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Aim_timeline.gif?width=440&name=Aim_timeline.gif)     5. Create and use project templates in the new Settings > Templates module ![projectTemplatesBetter-1](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hs-fs/hubfs/projectTemplatesBetter-1.png?width=435&name=projectTemplatesBetter-1.png)   6. Programme Changes  Checkout all of the changes that have been made to programmes [here.](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/exciting-updates-to-programmes)   #### New Updates:  #### 1. Improved performance - Live Now Work has been done to improve the performance of several areas of the platform. Most notably top level module lists like projects and programmes.   #### 2. 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