We released TargetProcess 2.18.2 today with several fixes and cute pics  in Kanban board: visual bugs and tasks count for user stories.

This is not an ultimate health diagnostic utility for user stories, but it’s at least possible to see right away how many bugs and tasks are wrapped in in it.

If you have any better images for “bugs” and “tasks” :), you’re welcome to submit your comments to TargetProcess UX Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/uxtargetprocess

Just a quick overview of 2 small but nice features, new in recent builds:

Items count displayed in Kanban board columns

Take a look at the screenshot:

Now we’ve got color coding to indicate whether the count of items in a given column/state in Kanban board exceeds the allowed limit (by the way, setting limits is done in one of the grey boxes on the upper right called “Customize”.)

With red arrows on the screenshot above, we see that for In Progress column 5 items is a limit and 5 items are in progress. All OK - the color is grey — it’s about neutrality. For Coded column, we’ve got the red light — the limit is 3, and currently as many as 7 entities are in this state. With Ready to Merge column — no items are there, and the limit is 3, so we’ve got the light green color for this column. It’s almost like traffic lights

Ability to filter by State added to Search column.

See the screenshot:

For example, as a Product Owner you might want to filter out all the entities in Open state based on some keyword (search string) — “effort” as in the screenshot.

In the future we’re going to implement more advanced filtering for search.  As soon as next week we will enable search in Comments fields (not only in Name and in Description), so this small update with filtering by State is our first step towards powerful search capabilities in TargetProcess.

Please, refer to our change log for the complete list of all the updates and fixes in the latest builds.