How much time we spent on a particular release? Quite interesting question that can be answered using Custom Reports functionality. For example, last release of TargetProcess v.2.12 took about 5,500 hours. That is MUCH more than any of the previous releases. OK, let's try to create the report.

Step 1

Navigate to Custom Reports and click Create New report button. Select Release entity.

Step 2

Add Start Date and End Date fields to the report in Fields tab.

Step 3

Click to Summary Fields tab and specify new summary field as shown on the picture below

Step 4

Click Settings tab, specify report name and Run it.

Report Engine in TargetProcess is quite interesting beast. It allows you to extract data in different ways. For example, you may to create stories quality report that shows number of total bugs, open bugs, failed and passed test cases for each user story. Let's try to create the report in TargetProcess v.2.12.

First click to Custom Reports link on the top and then push New Report button. You will see a report wizard. Select user story entity, then click Fields tab. On this step you should select required columns for the report.

Then we need to configure Summary Columns as shown on the image below:

To apply new filter to summary column, click Filter button. In the popup window specify required filter parameters.

Click Settings tab, specify report name and push Run and Save button. And here is the final report:

We get emails from people who are just starting out with TargetProcess, and they go: where do we begin? What is an Iteration? What is a User Story? How do I plan Release? How to I create a Requirements Backlog? How can I learn fast? Our universal answer to these questions is a cute Getting Started page (Home - Getting Started). You could use it as a quick visual introduction to TargetProcess and as a glossary of agile definitions and methodology. We really did our best to come up with this page, and occasionally people who are not able to find it right away are just so glad as they're told that this page exists! :)

What's more, there's one very helpful button at this page - it's called Generate Sample Project - and it's at the bottom left of Getting Started page. It might take you a while to find this button, as it's really hidden at the bottom - but well the efforts will pay off for sure! :)

This is a joke but actually we're going to increase visibility of Generate Sample Project button in the next versions of TargetProcess. This button produces a canned sample project called Private Universe so you could rather spend your time learning the product, and not inventing some test project. The sample project does have requirements backlog in place, planned iterations, releases, time records, all the reports, burn-down charts etc. — in a nutshell, the complete set of TargetProcess functional features.