TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard make working with
Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server Faster and Easier, enhancing
developer productivity
Newton, MA, September 9, 2009 – Telerik, a leading vendor of
development tools and user interface components for .NET, today
introduced
TFS Work Item Manager (Beta) and TFS Project Dashboard
(Beta), a new class of developer workload and resource management
applications built with
RadControls for WPF by
Imaginet Resources Corp.
Inspired by agile development methodologies, the free tools are
designed to facilitate project progress visualization, drastically
reduce project overhead and enhance accountability for development
teams working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server. Since the TFS
Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard have been used extensively
internally at Telerik and Imaginet for over six months with great
results, development teams can immediately utilize these tools and see
the same benefits.
“Telerik’s RadControls for WPF suite provided an amazingly
flexible foundation for the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project
Dashboard tools, allowing the team to quickly implement a user
experience that was fresh and intuitive. In addition, Telerik’s mature
software engineering practices truly inspired the team to find better
ways to visualize the software construction process as well as help to
rethink how to update Microsoft Team System work items,” said Joel
Semeniuk, Imaginet Co-CEO. “This partnership has resulted in a work
item management tool for all members of the software team as well as a
rich project feedback platform inspired by highly efficient
manufacturing processes.”
Brought to life by Imaginet’s extensive expertise in
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and influenced by Telerik
internal development processes,
TFS Work Item Manager is aimed to help
teams be more agile in their day to day work. TFS Work Item Manager
leverages the powerful capabilities of Microsoft’s Team Foundation
Server to help developers access and alter all their tasks in a
visually appealing and user-friendly way. With this innovative and easy
to use platform, teams will also enjoy improved collaboration resulting
in less time needed for managing work items, reports, and cross-team
efforts. In these lean times where development teams are being asked to
do more with less, the TFS Work Item Manager helps free up more
developer time to actually write code, not manage what they have to do.
TFS Project Dashboard assists the coordination of teams’
responsibilities even further. This unique stand-alone console connects
to Team Foundation Server and pulls workload data to be displayed as
various widgets. The application shows all significant indicators in
real time at a glance including build history, recent check-ins,
assigned tasks, bug history, and more. The instant and accurate reports
allow for improved accountability of personal tasks, workloads and
release schedules. The TFS Project Dashboard increases team
transparency and is designed to end the question from management of
“what are we doing” or “who broke the build?”
“TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard are an
excellent demonstration of how RadControls for WPF can be used to build
key line of business applications in an efficient and effective
manner,” said Vassil Terziev, Telerik Co-CEO. “Furthermore, these
applications are not just a showcase but ready-to-use tools that will
aid developers in release schedule planning. Our development teams use
the tools internally which also helped to built in them some of Telerik
development best practices. We are happy to share yet another free
productivity tool with the developer community.”
About Imaginet Resources
Imaginet is a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner that has globally helped organizations in the areas
of Team System training, .NET application development, Portal &
Collaboration solutions with Microsoft Office, SQL Server Business
Intelligence solutions. They are recognized as leaders in Application
Lifecycle Management best practices, consulting for Visual Studio Team
System and .NET development. Read more at
http://www.imaginets.com/