Explain Telerik TeamPulse?

About Telerik TeamPulse

- Telerik TeamPulse has been developed by Telerik as an agile project management tool in the year of 2010. 

- One of the characteristic features of the TeamPulse is that it can be integrated as well as hosted as local Microsoft team foundation server 2008, 10 and 12 services. 

- However, it cannot be integrated with the Microsoft visual studio.

- This Telerik product is available under commercial license. 

- The features of TeamPulse have been mentioned below:

1. Bug tracking
2. Integration with the telerik’s web UI test studio
3. Time tracking
4. Backlog management
5. E – mail notifications
6. Cross – project dashboard known as xView and developed with html5.
7. Task board
8. Storyboard with WP limits
9. TeamPulse can be integrated with Microsoft TFS (team foundation server) 2008, 2010 and 2012.
10. Requirements manager
11. Best practices analyzer

- The extension provided with the Telerik TeamPulse is the TeamPulse ideas and feedback portal which is based on html and is compatible with html5.

- Since TeamPulse is commercial software, it is not available for a hosted solution but it is to be used only on premise. 

- When you add TeamPulse to TFS the planning, tracking and collaboration improves automatically.

- With the real time project intelligence of Telerik TeamPulse you can improve decision making power. 

- It provides you with up-to-date views of the status of the project. 

- By using TeamPulse, you bridge the boundaries between the team members and their geographical location i.e., the communication is improved. 

- This tool has been exclusively designed for scrum and kanban teams i.e., any of these either kanban or scrum or scrumban can be used.

- It has been designed to reduce the delivery time, eliminate the waste and improve the work flow. 

- It also provides you a convenient way for collecting and managing the customer feedback. 

- It lets you create products that your customer actually needs. 

- TeamPulse lets you manage project well with the following:

1. Work burn down
2. Velocity
3. Cycle time
4. Iteration delta
5. Agile best practices and a number of other reports. 

- Telerik TeamPulse favors most of the agile projects.

- It lets one plan, manage and monitor the results thus improving the overall process. 

- TeamPulse has got a rich interface with in–context guidance making the integration with TFS faster. 

- Its other features include:

1. Automatic notifications
2. Bug tracking
3. Gantt charts
4. Interactive gantt charts
5. Privacy settings
6. Project templates
7. Reporting
8. Scheduling
9. Task feedback
10. Workload
11. Dashboard
12. Email integration
13. Issue tracking
14. Messaging or IM
15. RSS feed
16. Collaborative
17. Issue tracking system
18. Risk management capabilities
19. Web application

- The tool has not got any remote capability features. It comes with the following resource management features:

1. Time sheets
2. Compare project
3. Management software

- Teampulse has been developed with the view that all the clients, scenario and environment differ from each other.

- Large enterprises require a tool that is capable of scaling their workload. 

- Teampulse fits every scenario even though if you require some time to master it. 

- Firstly, you need to set up the project info, template, iterations. 

- Then you need to create your team and lastly take a view of the summary of your project. - It is recommended by the system to start with the stories.

- Being an enterprise tool, it has got many features which might make you feel like it might be quite complex to use. 

- But it is quite user friendly. 

Give an overview of IBM Rational Application Developer?

The Rational Application Developer was developed by IBM to provide a complete solution for the development of the applications which are otherwise are difficult to be built. It creates an integrated environment for you to work in. The work bench platform can be further extended to meet your specific requirements. 

The Rational Application Developer by default supports two SCM systems (software configuration management systems) namely:

1. SCM adapter plug–in: This is included for the CVS systems (concurrent version system). This is so because the eclipse only supports the open source SCM system which is none other than the CVS.
2. Rational clear case SCM adapter plug–in: This is automatically installed by the rational application developer. However the clear case client needs to be installed separately.

Before using either of the above mentioned adapters, you should enable the appropriate one. 

About Rational Application Developer

- Rational application developer is a great tool for the development of web application since its work bench offers you a number of tools that you might require for developing your applications. 

- The application may range from web sites to static web pages to complex web applications which make use of JSP files or java servlets.

- A web project consists of all these resources, web resources and deployment descriptors.

- Rational application developer can also be used for the development of portal as well as portlet applications. 

- The tools provided by the rational application developer run well on web sphere portal. 

- Rational application developer has it all that is required for the development of portal – views, wizards and specialized editors. 

- All these ease the creation of the portal sites. 

- Java development tools of the rational application developer assist you in building and running the java programs that have been optimized. 

- Tools consist of a UML diagram editor and a visual editor as well. 

- The client, data tiers and servers can be segregated using the J2EE specifications for the enterprise applications. 

- It has also got some relation data base tools using which the work regarding the data access applications can be defined. 

- You can work with the following:

1. Tables
2. Views
3. Filters
4. SQL
5. DB2
6. UDB routines
7. SQLJ files
8. SQL DDL files
9. DADX files
10. XML files and so on.

- Not only this, a number of enterprise applications can be developed and tested in the specialized environment dedicated to this by the rational application developer. 

- The following tasks can also be carried out:

1. Writing and editing business logic
2. Importing and exporting enterprise applications
3. Maintenance of the source code
4. Generating code using java development tools

- An already existing system can be redesigned to achieve better maintenance of the design. 

- This IBM product also comes with tools to assist you in discovering, transforming, and creating, deploying, building, developing, testing and publishing the web services. 

- Thus, it is a web service development package also. 

- A web service consists of many application functions that are related to each other and can be invoked over the internet. 

- These web services can be mixed and matched by the businesses for carrying out complex transformations involving just required amount of programming. 

- Rational application developer has proved to be quite a great tool in developing the EGL (enterprise generation language) applications. 

- EGL are the languages which help you write code for full functions applications as quickly as possible. 

- It lets you focus up on the business problems rather than its development technology. 

- It can be used for the creation of a text user interface, basic batch, as well as web applications.