Telerik blogs
  • People

    Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1

    One of the most common questions I get asked is “does the TeamPulse Team use TeamPulse?” My answer is always “Of Course!!!” – The TeamPulse team is the biggest, most passionate, and most demanding customer of the TeamPulse product! We wouldn’t have it any other way. I thought I would take some time to detail some behind the scenes facts about the TeamPulse team; how we work, how we’re structured, and how we use TeamPulse. TeamStructure Just like a lot of teams in the real world, the TeamPulse team is distributed across geographies and time zones. Our entire team (Sales, ...
    August 22, 2011
  • Release

    TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here!

    We are happy to announce that we have just released the new version of our agile project management tool TeamPulse. With it we are introducing some great new features that make release planning and work item management as simple as possible. In R2 2011 you will also find a number of functionalities that will improve team collaboration and help you focus on what’s most important. Let’s take a quick look. Backlog Management The new Backlog management feature lets you view and organize all work items, like user stories, bugs, issues, and risks from a single place. In this view you ...
    August 19, 2011
  • Productivity

    Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse

    With the release of TeamPulse 2011 R2 we have introduced the ability to create and assign tags to items within your backlog (stories, bugs, issues, and risks). When a new tag is created within a project it is assigned a random color from an internal list of colors. These colors can be helpful visual indicators, but what if your team wishes to add meaning behind the chosen colors? It sure would be nice to have the colors match up with the words in the screenshot above. While there currently is no in-app method for defining tag settings, those unafraid of ...
    August 16, 2011
  • Productivity

    One Year since TeamPulse V1

    I can’t believe it’s only been a year since we launched our first version of TeamPulse. We actually announced to the world that Telerik was entering into the world of Agile Project Management tooling in April of 2010, however, our first “official” release wasn’t until July 27th of 2010. Today we released our 4th official release of TeamPulse; the 2011 R2 release: http://www.telerik.com/agile-project-management-tools/whats-new.aspx Our initial release shipped with what we thought were a “core” set of features that we could build upon very aggressively to support our long term vision: In our latest release, we really nailed some ...
    August 15, 2011
  • Release

    Introducing the LOB Chronicles - Building a CRM Demo

    Today we’re starting a new endeavor in the Xaml teams at Telerik to bring a new demo application your way.   The application that we have in mind is a Customer Relationship Management (better known as CRM) solution intended to help a fictional sales person through the trials and tribulations of his day-to-day experience.  Now keep in mind, we’re not looking to make an application that gets sold under the Telerik banner, rather this is an exercise to see how UX, design, architecture, and our team of eight can work together to produce and explain a brand new demo featuring some...
    August 04, 2011