We've finished first TP 2.4 iteration today and decided to show intermediate results for all who interested. We've implemented quite many nice features during last two weeks and want to get early feedback (yes, we've released TP 2.3 two weeks ago and new release is coming within 3 weeks). TP 2.4 preview available at http://preview.targetprocess.com (admin / admin).

Implemented stories:

• Impediments management
• Task Board
• Paging in Iteration Plan
• Tp.Tray: ToDo component
• Change state action simplified
• Date and RichEdit custom fields
• Filter by custom fields in lists
• Scheduled reports (Bugs Burn Down by State)
• Finish Latest Iteration (automatically split/move user stories to the next iteration)
• Split User Story

We've completed impediments management implementation. The main goal is to make blocking stories, tasks and bugs explicitly visible. They are marked with impediments icon and you may click on the icon to see all impediments. Thus you clearly see what story is blocking and why. The functionality includes:

• Add/Edit/Delete impediments
• Impediments list (sorting, filtering, change impediment state)
• Bind impediments to user stories, tasks and bugs
• See blocked user stories, tasks and bugs and see related impediments in many places (for example, user story list, user story view, task board, todo)
• Private/Public impediments (private impediment available for impediment owner only)

As mentioned in latest post we are working on better SCRUM support in TargetProcess. One of the core feature is TaskBoard that powers daily Scrum meetings.

The usual actions for Scrum Master during Scrum meetings are:

• Change Task state (In Progress or Done for example)
• Assign tasks (or subscribe to task for developer)
• Add new task
• Add impediments and see blocking tasks and stories
• Update remaining time

TargetProcess TaskBoard supports all that things (see screenshot). It is already implemented in fact and requires just some polishing.