v.2.15 - Kanban Board, Cumulative Flow Diagram
All the features described below appeared in TargetProcess v.2.15 (July-29)
TargetProcess v.2.15 requires .NET Framework 3.5. Please plan your upgrade accordingly.
Kanban Board
Problems: "We are using Kanban process and can't visualize flow in TargetProcess. It makes TargetProcess useless for our development environment".
Solution: Provide Kanban Board area with customizable states and limits.
Kanban Board visualizes flow of User Stories and Bugs. It supports some nice actions:
- Plan user stories and bugs from backlog using drag and drop.
- Change states of user stories and bugs using drag and drop.
- Set limits for states and highlight columns if limit is exceeded.
- Set columns order.
Check Kanban Board in action video:
Cumulative Flow Diagram
Problem: When we are using Kanban, usual tracking charts do not provide any value. We are not using burn down charts and need a metric to track process.
Solution: Provide cumulative flow diagram.
A cumulative flow diagram (CFD) helps to track User Stories and Bugs by state.
It helps to track average cycle time. Cycle time helps answer the question "if I asked you to start on feature x when will it go live?" Also it shows work in progress (WIP) and helps to find bottlenecks.
Source Control Integration Unification
Problem: Source control integration setup is not usable. You have to set something in general admin, something in project details and something in user details.
Solution: Unify source control plugins. Remove dependency on svn.exe.
Now you may setup source control integration for all projects in a single place. Also there is no longer required to install Subversion on the server.
Other Improvements
#17850 Can't change entity state in program area
#17851 Installation fails on DBs with case sensitive collation
#17135 Empty My Links component on Dashboard breaks ToDo list filter
#17826 CSV export does not work in program area
Bugzilla Plugin
#17336 ERROR: [Team.User]: Person should be in team
#17440 Plugin Log page style is corrupted if there are many (more than 60) defects added in last synchronization
#17589 Bug on migration from Bugzilla to TargetProcess - some capital cyrillic letters are lost
#17684 Resolutions and comments are case sensitive
JIRA Integration Plugin
#5723 Make import available either if some fields in Jira are Null for not required fields
#8150 Description field of issues is not imported and import fails if Jira issue has a comment in it
#16026 Cannot import bug from Jira if state mapping like 'resolved issue, resolved'
Perforce Integration
#17439 Korean letter between TP and Perforce
#17683 Error occurs and synchronization fails if Start Revision is 0
Visual Studio Plugin
#17587 Connection via HTTPS doesn't work
#14774 Better UI in todo list
Subversion Integration
#16093 SVN Integration problem (remained time unchanged)
#16094 Integration with SVN over HTTP and Active Directory
#16108 Allow multiline comments
#16764 Setting Plugin Settings 'Start Revision' to -1 doesn't allow to save modified settings
#17146 Exception in committed files if they are open via Source tab
#17147 Failed to view the attached committed file in TP if it's name contains #
#17239 Add Users mapping to SVN plugin profile
#17273 If Start Revision is changed to less number than it was set initially, committed changes will not be exported on next synch
#17486 Disable possibility to view deleted file
#17530 Access to project denied for -user-' in case of commitments to defects from deleted project
#8543 Subversion commits sometimes listed multiple times
#8562 SVN do not accept certificates
#15569 Non user friendly error messages
#15579 Integration fails with urls containing space character
#17615 Some defects states don't change after synchronization