[Processdash-announce] Process Dashboard 1.13 is Now Available

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The Process Dashboard development team is pleased to announce the
availability of version 1.13 of the Process Dashboard.  To download version
1.13, visit:
http://www.processdash.com/

Version 1.13 includes these significant new features:

   - Several enhancements have been made in the Work Breakdown Structure
   Editor:
      - A strikethrough font is now used in the "Assigned To" column to
      indicate which individuals have completed a multi-person task.
      - "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons have been added to the toolbar.
      - The Team Member List will now allow you to reorder individual team
      members using drag-and-drop.
      - If you are starting a new project iteration, you can now use Ctrl-C
      and Ctrl-V to copy and paste team members from the old team
member list to
      the new team member list.
      - In the past, when individual team members open the WBS from their
      personal dashboard, the WBS Editor would sometimes unexpectedly open in
      read-only mode. This problem has been corrected.
      - In the past, the Team Dashboard's Team Project Parameters and
      Settings page displayed a checkbox allowing the team leader to decide
      whether team members could edit the WBS. This checkbox has been
moved into
      the Work Breakdown Structure Editor itself, in the "Edit > Preferences"
      dialog. As a result, if a team leader has locked down the WBS (forbidding
      edits by team members), they will need to reaffirm this choice
in the "Edit
      > Preferences" dialog of the WBS Editor after upgrading to version 1.13
      - If you insert a workflow underneath a component that has a LOC size
      estimate, the "Code" or "PSP" task in that workflow will automatically
      inherit that LOC estimate.
      - The selection colors have been modified to produce better
      readability on Mac OS X.
   - Several enhancements have been made in the WBS Common Team Workflows
   window:
      - It is now possible to define a workflow that distributes time across
      various phases using percentages, even if your team does not use size
      estimates or historical productivity rates.
      - The keyboard accessibility of the Common Team Workflows editor has
      been improved. Keystrokes such as Tab, Enter, Delete, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and
      Ctrl-X will now perform more intuitive, spreadsheet-like
behaviors when the
      focus is not in the first column.
      - The Task Size Units column now supports autocompletion.
      - The semantics of the "%" column have changed for tasks in a workflow
      that are performed by more than one person. Please consult the help
      documentation for more information.
   - Several enhancements have been made in the Task & Schedule window:
      - When an individual views one of their personal earned value task
      lists in the Task & Schedule window, they will see a "Notes" column that
      allows them to view and edit the notes associated with each component or
      task.
      - A strikethrough font is now used to indicate tasks that are 100%
      complete.
      - When an individual views one of their personal earned value task
      lists in the Task & Schedule window, the schedule pane (in the
lower portion
      of the window) now contains a "Notes" column. This column can be used to
      record arbitrary information about a particular schedule period,
such as the
      reason why a particular week has an unusual number of planned or actual
      direct task hours.
      - When you toggle from "Tree View" to "Flat View" and back, the
      currently selected task will be preserved.
   - A new charting and
reporting<http://www.processdash.com/enhancedChartExamples>extension
is available. This optional extension can display Gantt charts,
   burn-down charts, and several other useful views of earned values schedules.
   - The Defect Log Editor now provides a feature to Import defects from the
   system clipboard. This can be used to copy and paste defects from an
   external source, like a web page or an Excel spreadsheet.
   - The "Tools > Preferences" dialog now provides an "Always on Top"
   option. (This feature will only appear if you are using Java 1.6 or higher.)
   - If you pause the timer on the main dashboard toolbar, it will pause the
   "Fix Time" timer on the currently active defect dialog as well. If you
   subsequently resume the main dashboard timer, it will resume the defect fix
   timer as well.
   - The dashboard has always allowed you to set an "END" date for a
   personal earned value schedule. (This feature is typically used to record
   the date when an individual will unequivocally leave a project team, due to
   an impending reassignment.) When an individual with an END date is assigned
   too much work, their personal schedule may project that certain tasks will
   "never" be completed. Although that information is useful at an individual
   level, it can result in a frustrating lack of insight at the team level.
   Now, when one of these schedules is a part of a team schedule, the team
   rollup schedule will hypothetically rebalance these tasks to the rest of the
   team, calculate the date when the rest of the team might complete the tasks,
   and display that completion date in the team's "merged" view. The "Assigned
   To" column for such a task will indicate that the task has been
   hypothetically rebalanced to the team.
   - Fixes for several bugs:
#3064050<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064050&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064051<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064051&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064053<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064053&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064054<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064054&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064057<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064057&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064059<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064059&group_id=9858&atid=109858>,
   #3064060<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3064060&group_id=9858&atid=109858>
   .

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Upgrade Considerations*

   - Teams are encouraged to upgrade together. Some features may not work
   properly until all team members have upgraded, and exported their data at
   least once.
   - Teams using the built-in metrics collection framework will enjoy this
   functionality simply by upgrading. Teams that have defined their own custom
   metrics collection framework will need to refresh the
definition<http://www.tuma-solutions.com/metricsFrameworkEditor.html#upgrading>of
that framework.

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Download*

For more information, or to download the Process Dashboard, visit:
http://www.processdash.com/



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