TargetProcess 2.3 New Features

All the features described below appeared in TP 2.3 (Mar-16)

• People Allocations Management
• Web Services API
• Lookup Lists
• Custom Priority and Severity
• Batch Actions Improvements
• Iteration Planning Improvements
• Other Improvements
• Fixed Bugs

People Allocations Management

TargetProcess provides information about overall people allocations and powers decision making about re-allocations.

Allocations area answers the following questions:

Who is overloaded?

Also Load Report shows effort distribution between all people in company.

Who is available for upcoming project?

Who can be re-allocated to another project?

Often allocation percent does not give enough information for decisions making. For example, person may be allocated 100% but in fact has just few tasks and nobody knows what the person is doing in "spare" time. Allocations view provides detailed information about current assignments.

What assignments each person has?

So Allocations area provides all required information for people resources management in large software development department.

Web Services API

With Web Services API you may do almost anything with TargetProcess. You have access to all entities in TargetProcess. For example for User Story you may:

• add/edit/delete user story
• assign user to user story
• assign user story to release or iteration
• add comment
• retrieve list of user stories using HQL queries

// Retrieve all User Stories assigned to User

string userName = "admin";
string userPassword = "admin";
string TP_URL = "http://localhost/tp2/Services/";

// Get User
UserServiceWse userServiceWse = new UserServiceWse();
userServiceWse.Url = TP_URL + "UserService.asmx";
TpServicePolicy.ApplyAutheticationTicket(userServiceWse, userName, userPassword);

// Get User Stories assigned to user
UserStoryServiceWse userStoryService = new UserStoryServiceWse();
userStoryService.Url = TP_URL + "UserStoryService.asmx";
TpServicePolicy.ApplyAutheticationTicket(userStoryService, userName, userPassword);

string hqlAssignedUserStoryQuery =
    @"from UserStory as us where us.UserStoryID in 
        (select team.Assignable.AssignableID from Team as team 
        where team.User.UserID = ? 
        and team.Actor = us.EntityState.Actor 
        and team.Assignable.AssignableID = us.UserStoryID)";
UserStoryDTO[] stories =
    userStoryService.Retrieve(hqlAssignedUserStoryQuery, new object[] {users[0].UserID});

Lookup Lists

When you add bug it is quite hard to find required user story in drop down. Drop down list may contains several hundreds user stories and just unusable. In TP 2.3 this problem resolved with AJAX-based lookup list.

Lookup list allows to filter items by Name, sort items by ID and by Name. So you may easily find required user story and other related entity on addition.

Also entity can be found right from the text box by typing first two letters.

Custom Priority and Severity

You may customize values of Priority for Feature, User Story and Bug as well as Bug Severity in TP 2.3. Thus TargetProcess may be adopted better for your process.

Batch Actions Improvements

You may select several user stories and change they priority or assign to release/iteration.

Iteration Planning Improvements

Iteration planning now becomes really fast with batch drag and drop. You may select several user stories and bugs and drop them to the iteration.

Other Improvements

Fixed Bugs