Process Dashboard is a project management tool, an open-source initiative to create a PSP(SM) / TSP(SM) support tool. A tool to support individuals and teams using high-maturity, metrics-intensive project management methodologies [such as PSP (SM) and TSP (SM)]. Supports personal and team earned value tracking and forecasting; simplifies metrics collection and analysis.

The PSP (SM) is Personal Software Process (SM), created by Watts Humphrey of the Software Engineering Institute, is described in the books A Discipline for Software Engineering. Engineers using the PSP to develop program follow defined processes and collect detailed metrics on the time required to produce a product, the defects that were injected and removed at various stages in development, and the size of the finished product.

The TSP (SM) is Team Software Process (SM), also created by Watts Humphrey, is a process framework for teams of PSP-trained engineers. The TSP scales well and can be used by teams of 3 to 20 people to develop program products of significant size and complexity.

Teams of engineers using both the PSP and the TSP to develop program have consistently observed remarkable improvements in their work:
1. End-to-end productivity improvements of 20% - 150%
2. 99% reductions in system test defects, and virtually defect-free released software.
3. Schedule estimates accurate to within 10% (4% error on average)

The Process Dashboard supports:
1. Data Collection - Time, defects, size; plan vs. actual data
2. Planning - Integrated scripts, templates, forms, and summaries, PROBE, earned value
3. Tracking - Powerful earned value support
4. Data Analysis - Charts and reports aid in the analysis of historical data trends.
5. Data Export - Export data into Excel, or export data to text format for use with external tools.

The major strengths of the Process Dashboard are:
Ease of use
1. Optimizes ease of collecting the most commonly performed metrics (time and defects)
2. Other process aids (scripts, forms, templates, and summaries) are just a mouse-click away
3. Its small onscreen footprint allows the tool to coexist with integrated development environments
4. Tasks are arranged hierarchically, mirroring project work-breakdown structure

Flexibility / extensibility
1. New processes and new types of data can be added without programming
2. Process scripts, templates, forms and summaries are HTML, and can therefore be created with any HTML editor

Platform independence
* 100% Java implementation runs on Windows, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, etc.

Price
* Since the tool is open-source, it is distributed at no cost. Furthermore, it does not rely upon any commercially licensed software, so you don't need to purchase any program to use the dashboard.

Requirements:
* Java

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this project management software.