Dashboards

Dashboards are light weight Web UI components intended to provide overview about the project status. It provides an easy drill-down mechanism to get more complete information. A group of portlets constitutes a dashboard. Each portlet is a UI element that displays a report of piece of information from the Rational Team Server data in real time.

Traditionally, stakeholders or team members may have to search and organize the data from disparate systems such as source control, issue tracking tools, requirements management tools, and others.

Dashboards makes it possible that everyone who has access to the system sees the same information at all times. Each time you access the dashboard, the reports are computed real-time. This has multiple advantages for the team like:

• The project manager can track the project health and trends at a single place

• Teams can use the dashboard data for the team meetings

• Team leads can see the individual project load and team progress and balance the workload...