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.

We've completed Iteration #12.4 and added some really nice features into Report Engine. It is possible to add summary columns, group entities and add simple charts. Here are some examples of real reports (they are working)

We will add some fancy functions during next two weeks and most likely v.2.7 with Report Engine will be released in the middle of December. So far you may play with Report Engine at http://preview.targetprocess.com (admin / admin).

Today we've completed third iteration of v.2.7. Report engine implementation going really well and right now it is possible to extract list of entities with

• defined columns (including related entities columns)
• set columns order
• defined filters (including related entities filters)

For example, you may extract all user stories with all columns like Name, Effort, Iteration Name, Feature Name where User Story Effort = 0 and User Story Feature Priority is Must Have.

It is required to add calculations to the reports engine as well as more flexible columns. In final release it will be possible to create let's say a report like that

ID	User Story Name	Test Cases Passed	Test Cases Failed	Total Test Cases	Open Bugs
12	Workflow per project	8	4	12	5
33	Custom field type (numeric)	4	0	4	0
45	Average column	3	0	3	2

Development of Program Releases Management is in progress as well. In this iteration we've added product backlog to release plan with sorting and filtering options. There are some things to do in next iteration like drag and drop planning, release date forecasting and some smaller things.

Also we've integrated Selenium tests with Cruise Control and at least we have good build process setup :)

We are continuing development of v.2.7. It will contain such things as program level release planning and custom reporting. Also we are re-styling user interface. You may check progress at preview.targetprocess.com (admin / admin)

Program level release planning will resolve many problems of large projects. It will provide full view on all projects releases and will allow to synchronize releases and re-plan them. Also it will show planned and forecasted product release dates.

Planning will work via drag and drop. We think that this feature will be great for product planning and high level progress tracking.

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 :)