TeamPulse is LIVE!!

The TeamPulse team is excited to announce that our first official release of TeamPulse is now READY for general download. Here is a quick summary of the features for the Q2 2010 Release:   1. Community and Standard Editions Fully functional Community Edition is free with a limitation of 5 ...

What is a Persona in TeamPulse?

Personas are fictitious characters created to represent the different user types of a system. Personas will help you visualize the people behind the keyboard using the features of the software your team is creating. You will can describe exactly how personas use your software by describing the interaction in a ...

TeamPulse Helps Your Team Follow Best Practices

One of the features that has inspired the TeamPulse team over the years is Static Code Analysis. In Visual Studio 2010 (Premium and higher) you have the ability to have Visual Studio perform a check on your code to see how well your code conforms to different coding best ...

Capturing User Stories with TeamPulse

Defining requirements for a software system has always been a difficult task.  Capturing requirements as User Stories is a technique that has been extensively employed on Agile projects as a way to help describe functionality that will be valuable to users of the software being developed. According to Mike Cohn...

Team Transparency and TeamPulse

In June, Stephen Forte wrote a great blog post on Transparency and Software Teams. As Stephen mentioned, Telerik has embraced transparency as a key practice of an effective Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy. Quality is a result of feedback cycles – the tighter the feedback cycles on your team, ...