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Process Dashboard: version 1.10 released
A tool to support individuals and teams using high-maturity, metrics-intensive project management methodologies [such as PSP(SM) and TSP(SM)]. Supports personal and team earned value tracking and forecasting; simplifies metrics collection and analysis.
The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.10 of the Process Dashboard.
Version 1.10 includes many significant new features, as described at:
http://processdash.sourceforge.net/news.htm
2008-09-22 18:26:54 UTC by tuma
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Process Dashboard version 1.9 released
A tool to support engineers & managers in the use & execution of the PSP(SM) and TSP(SM); automates metrics collection & analysis. Personal Software Process, PSP, Team Software Process, and TSP are registered service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.9 of the Process Dashboard.
Version 1.9 includes many significant new features, as described at:
http://processdash.sourceforge.net/news.htm
2007-09-17 20:25:20 UTC by tuma
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Process Dashboard version 1.8 released
The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.8 of the Process Dashboard.
In addition to new functionality, version 1.8 includes the fix for a recently-discovered security vulnerability which was present in earlier versions of the Process Dashboard. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. For more information about this vulnerability, visit:
http://processdash.sourceforge.net/security_advisory.htm
Version 1.8 includes many significant new features, as described at:
http://processdash.sourceforge.net/news.htm
2007-04-27 03:46:21 UTC by tuma
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Process Dashboard version 1.7-RC1 is now available
The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.7-RC1 of the Process Dashboard! Version 1.7-RC1 includes these significant new features:
* The Process Dashboard now contains extensive, powerful functionality to support project teams, including:
** Support for team projects (to roll-up metrics and schedule data from several individuals) and master projects (to roll-up metrics and schedule data from several teams)
** Streamlined project planning tools enable rapid creation of balanced, top-down team project plans
** Powerful reporting tools allow the creation of custom forms, charts, and reports that analyze project metrics and earned value at the team level
** Tracking of task dependencies assists with coordination of work within and across project teams
* The Process Dashboard now contains extensive support for internationalization. A Localization Tool is provided to help users translate dashboard messages into their native language, and share those translations with other users.
* Memory usage and startup time have been reduced dramatically for individuals with many historical projects.
* The dashboard contains several enhancements to earned value functionality:
** A new task navigation option makes it easier to work through the tasks in an earned value plan.
** The plan and forecast lines on the earned value charts can be toggled off.
** The earned value report can display your task list hierarchically, and display rolled-up calculations such as "percent complete" at various levels.
** Export a GANTT chart of an earned value plan to MS Project
** Export an HTML snapshot of an earned value plan, for status reporting and collaboration
* The Data Analysis center has been enhanced to support custom processes. Users who define a custom process will see customized versions of Report 3, 4, and 5 for their process.
* The dashboard can be opened in read-only mode, making it possible for a mentor/coach to look at dashboard data without worrying about accidentally changing data.
* It is now very safe to use a networked directory for storage of dashboard data; the logic that saves changes will detect and recover from sporadic network outages.
* Time values are displayed on dashboard forms in hours and minutes.
This version of the dashboard is a release candidate:
* Multilingual users are invited to create translations using the new Localization Tool, and send them to the Process Dashboard development team for inclusion in the final release.
* Please report defects to the Process Dashboard development team for attention before the final release.
2006-09-29 05:06:56 UTC by tuma
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Version 1.6 is now available
The development team for the Software Process Dashboard Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.6 of the Process Dashboard! Version 1.6 includes these significant new features:
* The earned value tool in the dashboard can now calculate estimated prediction intervals for forecast completion date and forecast cost. These intervals compare your planned progress to your actual progress using numerical methods and approximate pivotal statistics, computing a range of dates within which your project is likely to finish. The dashboard can calculate these ranges both for individual earned value schedules and for rolled-up team schedules.
* Traditional PSP(SM) earned value planning addresses only "direct time," omitting time spent on recurring activities (such as weekly meetings) and ongoing activities (such as communicating with customers and management, or participating on committees). Unfortunately, "direct time" is an unfamiliar metric for many organizations, which are accustomed to tracking "project time" instead. As a result, senior managers in some organizations take issue with earned value plans that reflect only 15-20 direct hours per week.
To help development teams avoid this potential misunderstanding, the dashboard now provides an innovative new feature: "level of effort" tasks can be added to earned value task lists. Although these tasks don't affect the earned value calculations, they do allow you to create a schedule that accounts for all of your "project time" - and this can help when you present plans to management for approval. To add "level of effort" tasks to an earned value plan, just enter percentages for these tasks in the "planned time" column instead of durations. (Planned direct time for the periods in the schedule is then calculated automatically by reducing the planned total time by the appropriate percentage.) To help you enhance the accuracy of future estimates, "actual time" for "level of effort" tasks is also displayed as a percentage.
* Earned value task lists in the dashboard have always been hierarchically organized. When the list of tasks for a particular project differs from the structure of your dashboard hierarchy, new features in the earned value tool allow you to "prune" and reorder tasks to better describe the work that needs to be done.
* At times in the middle of a project, you may decide that you wish to "re-plan" the remaining tasks and start with a fresh earned value schedule. The dashboard now makes this simple: just change the starting date on your earned value schedule to the current date. All work performed before the starting date of the schedule will be factored out of earned value calculations automatically.
* The "Data Analysis" center now allows you to generate custom charts and reports, simply by selecting options from drop-down lists. The data in these custom charts and reports can also be exported to Excel for further custom analysis.
* The time log now includes a column for the entry of optional comments.
* It is now possible to create and edit custom defect type standards.
2003-09-02 03:54:18 UTC by tuma
