Gemini 3.5: Release Management
The upcoming 3.5 release is packed with new and enhanced functionality. In this post, we will focus on some of these new features that we believe will be of great use to Project Manager – Version Milestones, Version Burndown Charts, Resource Progress Charts and Version Progress Charts. All three charts are presented in the same window and render a clear, current snapshot of overall progress.
Version milestones can be added within versions from Project Administration > Version. Version milestones are independent of project issues and version start/completion dates. Version milestones are displayed in the Project Schedule, in the Project homepage. Optionally, version milestones can be superimposed on the Version Burndown chart.
The Resource Progress Chart offers a snapshot of progress made by each resource assigned to a particular version. The user has the option to select any version from within a Project. Counts and percentage of closed and open issues are displayed; closed issue in green, open issues in red.
The Version Progress Chart displays counts of open and closed Issues for each version in the selected Project. The user is able to see in a snapshot how each version is progressing.
The Burndown Chart graphs from the version start date to completion date and visually depicts the rate at which issues/tasks are being closed. It also shows how many issues are open today; the day the burndown chart is run. PMs can see exactly how the version is progressing and can estimate if they are on track to meeting the Version completion date. The user can select the time interval at which the burndown chart will graph Issue progress. Also, the user can select to superimpose version milestones on the burndown chart to get a clear picture of work progress.
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Looks interesting, when is 3.5 expected to go live?
For the new reporting features – I would really be interested in seeing the process for creating our own reports if we decided to go that route.
Looking forward to 3.5!
Thanks for keeping us updated. Looking forward to more blog posts and of course to version 3.5
I have recently bought the product, the version is 3.1.2 Build 2257. Would I be able to download and use version 3.5?
dnndev,
You can create your own reports with 3.5: just create User Controls that inherit from ReportBase UC and then decide who can see your report. It’s that simple.
Girish,
Yes, you can update from 3.1.2 to 3.5 – no data loss, straightforward conversion.