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TP.Tray v.2 (BETA) Released
Posted by Michael Dubakov in release on February 25th, 2010
TargetProcess ‘Kanbanized’
Posted by Michael Dubakov in agile, release on July 31st, 2009
Yesterday we’ve released TargetProcess v.2.15 with basic Lean / Kanban support. It includes customizable Kanban Board and Cumulative Flow Diagram. It is just a first release to provide the most important functionality.
We at TargetProcess moved away from iterations to flow. As a result, most important features like iteration planning, burn down charts, daily progress, etc. became useless to us. This situation was quite strange. We were developing agile project management software, but it lacked functionality that we needed.
We’ve tried to find viable workarounds. For example, we’ve created endless release (to emulate Planned state) and endless iteration (to emulate In Progress state). It worked, but visualization was just not there, thus violating Kanban principle. Finally we decided to implement required functionality and did it in 1 month.
New Knaban Board is fantastic. It visualizes user stories and bugs flows nicely, highlights limits, shows priorities, etc.
Kanban Board
Next v.2.16 release will include options to switch off Iterations (if you don’t use them, they will not affect user interface), view release burn chart down by weeks, view other progress reports by release. And of course we are going to improve Kanban Board based on your feedback!
TargetProcess v.2.13.8: Better Permissions and Build Management
Posted by Michael Dubakov in release, usability on May 6th, 2009
We have released v.2.13.8 that includes several useful features.
Better Permissions
Sometimes you need to restrict permissions on People. For example, you don’t want to allow a customer see other customers in People area. Now it is possible via Role concept. Just create new role and disable access to People area.
Improved Builds Management
Build was quite restricted entity in TargetProcess. Now it has power behind. You may create custom fields for builds, add comments and attachments, search for builds, etc.
Also Build View has two new tabs:
- Working Items. Contains all stories, bugs and tasks that were completed in this build.
- Source. Contains all source code associated with stories/tasks/bugs in this build.
Assign Tasks Quickly
Some usability improvements were added to the quick assign control. Now you may quickly assign story or task to yourself. If you need to assign it to someone else, grouping by Roles help to find required person.
TargetProcess Announced v.2.14 Release With Full Waterfall Support
Posted by Michael Dubakov in agile, release on April 1st, 2009
We are extremely happy to announce the full Waterfall support in TargetProcess. No wonder it has the reputation of being the most flexible agile project management software on the market! New v.2.14 (special edition) will include features like:
Gantt Charts On All Levels
You will at least see nice and accurate Gantt charts in project, release and even iteration scope. Now you may define and manage Critical Path painlessly. Do you know your real iteration end date? With Critical Path you can predict it with 105% probability with minimal effort.
Extensive Dependencies Management
Dependencies management on tasks level is a really complex thing for any project. Now with TargetProcess you may pretty easy define all dependent tasks. Why stop there? TargetProcess is smart enough to generate potentially dependent tasks for you.
Waterfall Life-cycle Process Support
As you already know, TargetProcess has unique concept of Process. You may tune it to support your development process. Now it is possible with Waterfall as well! You may define all important project phases like Requirements, Design, Implementation, Verification, Maintenance.
Also you may enable such valuable practices as Big Design Up Front, Requirements Freeze and Fixed Budget. User interface adopted for the current project phase. For example, during Implementation phase you can’t add defects and run test cases. During Requirements phase you can’t commit code into repository. This forces development team to strictly follow Waterfall process which is definitely the very right road to the project success.
Micro-management Support
Micro-management is a very important thing in software development projects. You just can’t spent time procrastinating or learning new technologies. Developers should focus on code only, every minute is important! Software development is hard and complex adaptive system in its core; you should do your best to complete project on time and under budget.
Now with TargetProcess you may estimate tasks down to minutes! That powers another extremely valuable metric – individual velocity. You can control everything and that is just great!
TargetProcess development teams hopes you’ll enjoy new innovative functionality that we are providing with this special Waterfall-edition release. Please leave your comments!
TargetProcess v.2.13 released: Help Desk improvements
Posted by Michael Dubakov in help desk, release on February 24th, 2009
Yesterday we’ve released TargetProcess v.2.13. The release is fully dedicated to Help Desk improvements.
In short, we’ve improved Help Desk user experience and made some actions easier. Some usage patterns:
Action |
Old way |
New way |
| Check for unprocessed requests | Navigate to requests list, sort by date. Then sort by last comment date. Filter out ideas to see just issues and questions. | Navigate to Issues Queue |
| Reply to typical request | Find similar request using search, navigate to it, find appropriate comment, copy this comment and add to the new request. | Click Attach Solution, select required solution. |
| Maintain conversation | Open request, try to find latest comment in the messy comments thread, edit comments to remove bad formatting and redundant information | Open request and read clean comments thread. |
TargetProcess Future
Posted by Michael Dubakov in performance, release, usability on September 11th, 2008
Product development is hard. You have hundreds of customers and thousands of requests. It is impossible to please them all. You may bury the product with blind requests implementation, it is not a news for anybody. You should maintain clear vision and balance like a rope-walker all the time.
During last 11 releases we added new functionality. There was maybe 1 release targeted to peformance and usability improvements, but most of the releases targeted new features: integration, customization, horizontal features, vertical features, etc. We decided to stop.
Next several releases will be dedicated to performance, usability and design improvements. Here is what we are going to do:
- Unify design of the application and make it cool and attractive.
- Provide outstanding functionality for lists manipulation. People spend much time with data in lists (filtering, editing, etc). All lists will be fully customizable. It will be possible to create a list with any filter, grouping, inner lists, etc. It will be possible to inline edit everything in all lists. All that will be based on ExtJS grid and as a client side solution it will be faster than everything else.
- We have about a hundred of really nice requests/ideas/solutions from our customers regarding usability. We are going to implement most of them. Especially email notifications, personal customizability, lists manipulation, navigation, reporting.
- Improve overall performance twice.
These are our goals for the next several releases. Maybe quite many of our customers will not be happy. They demand new features like Eclipse integration, CC.NET integration, extended time tracking, budgeting inside TargetProcess, etc. But great performance and superior usability will bring more benefits to all of them.
We are feeling that it is time to eliminate many medium and small problems in TargetProcess to be able to move it forward with greater success.
TargetProcess v.2.11 Released. Selenium and NUnit on board
Posted by Michael Dubakov in integration, release, selenium on August 29th, 2008
Today we’ve released v.2.11. It has some nice features and the major are:
Navigation flows
Already mentioned in previous post. It is a great help for novice users to become familiar with TargetProcess. Also it may works nicely as an alternative navigation.
Selenium and NUnit integration
Automated acceptance testing integration is a long awaited feature. Integration as usual implemented via plugins and it is really easy to add integration with any testing framework that may provide results in parseable format.
Getting Started area
Nothing to add. Contains useful information about TargetProcess usage.
Sample project generation
It is easier to learn the system when it has some real data. Now you may generate sample project and examine all reports, lists, etc.
Also with v.2.11 we are providing source code of all plugins under BSD license. You are free to modify and change them to fit your needs. They will be available for download next week.
Apologize for v.2.10 release delay
Posted by Michael Dubakov in release on July 16th, 2008
We do apologize for v.2.10 release delay. Many of you waiting for it. We have the last problem to fix - Automatic Installer on Vista. It is already fixed and passes the verification now. We hope the official release will be announced tomorrow. Also there was a question whether Tickets included into v.2.10. Yes, they included. What’s new page will be updated soon.
TargetProcess v.2.7 Released
Posted by Michael Dubakov in release on January 6th, 2008
TargetProcess v.2.7 released several days ago. It has three huge enhancements
- Custom Reports / Report Engine
- Program Level Release Planning
- Workflow per Process
We were targeting better data manipulation and program planning in the latest release. You are putting data into TargetProcess all the time and it is obvious that you want to extract it just as easily. Custom Reports Engine allows you to make custom queries, select columns, set sorting and grouping, add summary columns and build charts. It is a really powerful thing that you can use for reporting in ways we can’t even predict. Then you may export results into Excel and do with this data all that you want.
Program level release planning is just superb for high level view of the program progress and planning. The interface looks like a greatly simplified Gantt chart (no worries, it is not MS Project-like chart 
that shows all releases for all projects inside the program. Users may modify release dates, assign features and user stories to multiple releases from backlog and immediately see forecasted program release date – all in one screen. AJAX-based user interface brings desktop-like experience for product managers to plan releases. It is really fast and fancy.
You may check new features description at http://targetprocess.com/tp27whatsnew.asp.
TargetProcess v.2.7 Released in Final Beta
Posted by Michael Dubakov in release on December 21st, 2007
We’ve released v.2.7 today. Official release will be ready next week, we are updating web site and there are some minor bugs to be fixed. New release includes some major features like Reports Engine, Workflow-per-Process, Program Level Release Planning as well as many small features like new rich editor, show all in lists (reverted back :), Perforce integration (experimental), tasks prioritization, default priority setting, search by custom fields and many more.
So far v.2.7 is available at public demo. Existing customers may request for upgrade right now or may wait till official release notification.
Marry Christmas!
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TargetProcess is an agile project management software. It is designed to solve distributed teams problems and support agile development processes.
Key Features
- Full Agile Project Management Support (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Hybrid)
- Productivity Tools (Tp.Tray, ToDo list, dashboards, Inline editing)
- Customizable Development Process
- Subversion Integration
- Integrated Bug Tracking, Help Desk, Time Tracking
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