We are going to provide Academic License for TargetProcess On-Site. A TargetProcess Academic License will include 50% discount ($125 per license) and will be available to legitimate academic institutions (schools, universities, etc.). If you are interested in Academic License you may contact us.

We've started Help Desk implementation this week. It will spread two iterations. In the first iteration we will implement core Help Desk functionality like Add Request, View Requests List, Manage Requestors and Email Integration (TargetProcess will automatically retrieve email and convert some emails to requests). The second iteration will include advanced functionality like Help Desk Portal and Solutions.

Some very agile artifacts below :)

The functionality of internal messaging will appear in the next version of TargetProcess (it is already implemented in fact :). The message board was designed to resolve some communication issues in distributed teams.

Messages List View Message The messages will be sent to users assigned to bugs, user stories and other assignable entities automatically in the following cases:

• Adding the comment
• Adding the attachment
• Changing the state
• Adding the assignment
• Deleting the assignment

In other words you will get an internal email about adding something new to user story or bug assigned to you. Also you will be notified if somebody removes your assignment from user story. The possibility of sending messages with attachments to users presents as well: It is supposed that message board will help to avoid miscommunication and losing information about just added comments and attachments.

Today we've released new version of TargetProcess. This release was SCRUM oriented and many things for better scrum support were added like customizable terminology, Task Board and impediments management. Now TargetProcess fits greatly for SCRUM dev. process and if you use SCRUM you should take a look at it.

The other goal was better reporting. Now you may generate various reports for several projects using simple UI.

As usual, this release contains many usability and productivity improvements. For example, you may select current iteration or release in drop downs with one click, finish iteration with two clicks and split user story with easy.

TargetProcess is available as On-Site or On-Demand version ($25 per user per month). We are receiving more and more very positive feedback from customers. So go ahead and try TP, you will be satisfied :)