Released on: April 15, 2008, 4:43 am

Press Release Author: TeamExpand

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: TX Chrono timesheet application for Team Foundation Server
allows project managers and developers to submit, approve, and analyze timesheet
submissions, create reports, and receive custom notifications

Press Release Body: 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.

Featured quotes

“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.


About TeamExpand

TeamExpand develops products complimentary to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
(VSTS) and provides specialized application lifecycle management (ALM) services to
software organizations standardizing on Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft .Net.
TeamExpand services include VSTS customization, automation, process guidance,
support, training, and consulting. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts,
TeamExpand operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. For more information on
TeamExpand, please visit www.teamexpand.com.


Web Site: http://www.teamexpand.com

Contact Details: Alex Pipko, 195 Meadow St., FL 2 Chicopee MA 01013 USA, phone -
(213) 784 4915 fax - (703) 564 5628, alex.p@teamexpand.com