Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Today Telerik released our Beta 2 version of our FREE and popular Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard Tooling.
There are a bunch of bug fixes (it was a Beta 1 after all) that have been made and one exciting new feature.
We now have a way to assist with Iteration Planning. You choose a query (whatever you want) of the work items you want to schedule into Iterations or Sprints. You choose which Iterations you want to do allocation for, what your effort capacity is and we provide a drag-and-drop mechanism to fill your iteration buckets. We keep finding that it’s the simple things that have immense value. There was no great interface for doing this. Now you have a very easy to use interface that gives immediate feedback on how you are filling your capacity. You can see when dropping an item into an iteration takes more capacity than you are willing to allocate to it very visually.
Check it out on the Telerik site!!
As always, keep the feedback coming. Leave a comment here for general feedback. If you are having issues, please use the Telerik Support Forums here for WIM and here for PD. That way you can track our responses and the whole community can benefit from the conversation.
I had a requirement this week to create a video for a demo. I needed to demonstrate features that had already been recorded in other demos but I needed to grab those videos, cut and splice them together to produce a ‘new’ video.
I decided to try Expression Encoder 3 which I had heard about but hadn’t had need to use before.
(For simple team collaboration videos and screen captures I typically use Jing)
Well, Encoder rocked it out. I’m really not a Multimedia production kind of guy. I record audio and video as a mechanism to communicate, but don’t generally worry about quality. To me, ease of use is KEY.
Look forward to using Expression Encoder more often in the future. It was fairly intuitive, handled the video formats I needed and produced a pretty good result.