Process Your Life

Cohn’s Law
The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.

To avoid this situation we developed the metrics and reporting feature for Stages. First of all it will save time.

Erich already mentioned that project kit (now Stages) integrated an automated metrics collection and reporting engine which helps you in defining and measuring product, project and process metrics.

We integrated the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) into project kit (now Stages).

BIRT has two main components:

• a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports,
• a runtime component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment.

The second component is completely integrated into project kit (now Stages). There is a new metamodel element “metric” which acts as a container for BIRT reports. These reports will be rendered (or exported) by user request.

Beside the standard BIRT functionality the project kit (now Stages) metric integration has the following additional features:

• Access to Microsoft Excel files which handled by project kit (now Stages) (via a configuration management system)
• Access to almost all process information’s (like number/state of documents, methods, …)
• Access permission handling to reports
• Data collection scripts: project kit can run a data collection script (scheduler based) and stores the results in the database. A report can access these results and can display a trend chart.

Ok. Enough words. Here are two screen shots:

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