We've implemented VS 2008 Add-In. It will be included into v.2.9 release.

VS Add-In has some useful features like:

• Shows ToDo list with all user stories, bugs and tasks.
• Close assigned tasks and bugs.
• Automatic stop watch functionality for time tracking.
• Daily time fragmentation report.

ToDo List

Stop Watch

Time Fragmentation Report

We are starting development of TargeProcess Add-In for Visual Studio 2008. It will be released in v.2.9 (in April). The functionality is quite simple. There will be a ToDo list with integrated Time Tracking abilities. Not a rocket science, but really helpful thing for .NET developers who don't like anything unless it has VS add-in ;).

Here are shots of Task Boards for previous and current iterations. Nothing special with these boards: user stories on the left, tasks as stick notes, tasks statuses columns. Each developer has own color and this gives more personal visibility.

Iteration #12.3

Iteration #12.4

TP 2.2 will be released Feb-5 and it will have a very good feature for better time tracking - weekly time sheet. It will be possible to add time for whole week or in the end of each day very fast. Time Sheet is fully ajax-based and has such nice features as keyboard navigation, fading effect on add/delete time events, automatic remaining time calculation.

Why we've implemented Time Sheet? In general time tracking is "hard-to-setup" practice, since developers do not like add spent time. Most common arguments are "It is waste of time", "I am spending 15 minutes per day to add time! It is more than an hour per week and half a day per month!" . So time addition should be as simple as possible. Time sheet in TargetProcess makes that really, really simple. It will take no more than 5 minutes to report spent time: one place, no reloads, no hassle.