TeamExpand Brings Timesheet Application to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 16, 2008 – TeamExpand, a developer of products complimentary to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), today officially announced the beta release of TX Chrono, a timesheet tracking application targeted at software development organizations standardizing on the Visual Studio .Net development environment. Web-based TX Chrono enables project managers and team members to submit, approve, and analyze timesheets. TX Chrono features a set of notification and reporting capabilities to make software development activities more visible and predictable. The product was launched at VSLive!, a premier Visual Studio developers conference, in San Francisco, CA.

TX Chrono features:

1.   Web-based timesheet submission and approval
2.   Individual and non-standard schedules
3.   Non-standard working hours per day or week
4.   Separate billable and non-billable tasks
5.   Custom timetables
6.   Pre-build and advanced reporting
7.   Analyze resource utilization and project metrics
8.   Automated notifications and alerts on projects, individuals, and activities

TX Chrono benefits:

1.   Improve productivity
2.   Monitor employee activity in real time
3.   Accelerate development cycles

Free download

The beta release of TX Chrono is available for free download at http://teamexpand.com/product/tx-chrono.

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“TX Chrono is a must-have tool for every software organization standardizing on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server,” said Leo Matveyev, President of SoftInform, Inc., a developer of enterprise search applications. “TX Chrono allowed my technical team leaders to manage their scarce resources more efficiently.”

“Every team leader wants to gain the control over his or her project that is necessary to assure the success of his or her teams,” said Andrei Yurkevich, CTO of TeamExpand. “TX Chrono can help project managers gain visibility over project-related activities, increase productivity, and ultimately accelerate release cycles.”

“Traditionally, users of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management (ALM) tools suffered from a lack of timesheet reporting capabilities,” said Alena Semeshko, TeamExpand Evangelist. “TX Chrono solves the time reporting limitations of Visual Studio Team Edition and Team Foundation Server.”

About Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a set of development tools for source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, designed for collaborative software development projects. It is available either as a stand-alone software package or as the server side backend platform for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). For more information, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem.