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TeamPulse offers a highly intuitive UI which makes planning your Agile projects more effective and easier. You can quickly establish start and end dates for releases and iterations, set capacity and start moving work items from the product backlog to the iterations. In addition to scheduling work, in your plan you can also account for risks and issues to help your team be better prepared to manage change.

Manage your backlog

The TeamPulse Backlog is designed to keep all project Backlog items (like user stories, bugs, issues and risks) in one place, where they can be easily viewed, edited and organized.

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1. Prioritize work items with Drag & Drop
2. Use three different Quick Views - ‘Prioritized’, ‘Hierarchical’ and ‘Sortable’ - to see the Backlog items in different ways.
3. Use the Preview Panel to quickly see and edit the details of work items.
4. Use additional filtering, sorting, searching and grouping options to quickly find the information you need.

Plan an iteration

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1. Prioritize your backlog (the user stories that are not scheduled)
2. Set start and end dates, capacity, create create predecessor relationships among the iterations.
3. Schedule work in each iteration

Schedule your release

In the Schedule area you can easily create your release plan - set start and end date for the release, breakdown the release into short iteration, set their durations, set the capacity, and create predecessor relationships among the iterations. If changes happen, you can easily adjust your release schedule using the simple and untuitive UI.

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Decompose user stories into tasks

In a lot of cases, when you have a user story and you want to get the story to “Done”, there is more than one thing that has to happen. In TeamPulse, you can create tasks for user stories to help spread out the work throughout your team and provide better tracking for your project.

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Manage risks and issues

In addition to scheduling work, in TeamPulse you can manage risks and issues, which are part of every project. For example, if your team wants to use the upcoming version of a 3rd party web grid, but you know there is a risk that new version can get delayed, you can capture this risk and outline how you should address it if it materializes. By planning for risks and issues in advance you can help your team be better prepared to adapt to change.

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Leverage the unique Best Practices Analyzer to ensure your plan conforms to Agile best practices.

Unlike other solutions which just passively capture data, TeamPulse always you to analyze your project with the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) and address problems related to planning early on. For example, if you set the iteration duration to 60 days, when you run the BPA it will remind you that iterations should rarely exceed 30 days.
Learn more about the Best Practices Analyzer

Organize work items with the Area/Iterations Manager

In TeamPulse you can associate stories, bugs, risk and issues not only to iterations, but also to areas.You can add, edit, delete, or change the hierarchy of your areas and iterations through the Area/Iterations Manager. 

Synchronize work items with Microsoft TFS 2010

TeamPulse provides two-way synchronization of  work items with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. Thanks to this integration agile software teams can benefit from TeamPulse’s improved collaboration and visualization capabilities without having to sacrifice their investments in TFS.

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