[Processdash-announce] Process Dashboard 2.0 -- Team Process Data Warehouse

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I am proud to announce the newest release of the Process Dashboard tool
suite. This release includes
many<http://www.processdash.com/changelog_version_2_0>new features;
the most important is that we are unleashing data to a whole
new level of usage - and future promise.

Teams using the TSP(SM) are exceptional due to the richness of the data
they collect.  But up to now, as a community we have mostly been limiting
our use of this data to simple, one-project-at-a-time analyses.  To a large
extent, this has been unavoidable because the data has been held up inside
the various tools we use.

This release changes that paradigm with the introduction of the Team
Process Data Warehouse <http://www.processdash.com/tpidw>.

The Team Process Data Warehouse is the result of several years of analysis
and design.  It is designed to hold data from any number of high-maturity
project teams across one or more organizations.  The data structure is
designed to allow fast, expressive queries across vast amounts of project
data.  It is not process- or domain-specific, so it can be used to analyze
data collected by teams that do not write software. And it has been
explicitly designed to be tool-agnostic, to allow the merging of data from
multiple different data sources (not just the Process Dashboard).

At the team level, this creates a wealth of new opportunities for custom
reporting and analysis.  To this end, a lightweight version of the
warehouse is now embedded in Team Dashboard 2.0.  This embedded warehouse
provides SQL-queryable access to the data for a single team, across all the
various projects and project iterations they have performed.  As always,
this team level experience is available free of charge. To download, visit
http://www.processdash.com/download

The ROI increases exponentially at the organizational level, where the Team
Process Data Warehouse opens the door to a new era of possibilities for
reporting, analysis, data mining, and data integration.  To take advantage
of these opportunities, organizations can deploy the Process Dashboard
Enterprise Server <http://www.processdash.com/pdes>.  This paid-for feature
set enables organizations to increase the impact of their data usage and
decrease the labor they need to realize it.  Contact Tuma
Solutions<pd...@tu...>for more information.

As a demonstration of this new power, the existing charts and reports in
the Team Dashboard have been reengineered to pull data from the lightweight
embedded data warehouse. Benchmarks show some reports appearing 100 to 1000
times faster than before.  The Team Dashboard also starts up and shuts down
many times faster.

But these changes are just the beginning.  The real power/opportunity comes
next, as the entire community can begin using off-the-shelf analysis and
reporting products to develop new/custom charts, reports, data analysis and
data mining tools. The team and organizational warehouses share the same
schema, allowing vertical reusability of these newly created reports and
tools.  Organizations that are willing to share their creations with the
rest of the community can receive design and analysis support from the
Process Dashboard development team <pro...@li...>
.

As part of this new paradigm of the Process Dashboard, we are also making a
number of new learning opportunities available to the community.

As we embark on this next phase of the high-maturity process improvement
journey, we would greatly appreciate your feedback.  I invite you to take a
quick survey (estimated time less than 7 minutes) that will help guide me
in providing the most value to you. Your feedback is very important, so I
will be sending another survey reminder in two weeks.
http://www.processdash.com/survey2.0

Looking forward to the exciting road ahead,


*David Tuma*
 Process Dashboard Architect
Tuma Solutions, LLC


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TSP(SM) is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University. The open source
team that writes the Process Dashboard is not affiliated with Carnegie
Mellon University. Neither Carnegie Mellon University nor the Software
Engineering Institute have reviewed or endorsed the Process Dashboard.