Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and solutions for Microsoft .NET platform, announced the expansion of its product portfolio TeamPulse to include Git and GitHub integration for team productivity solutions and better transparency for business users. The latest TeamPulse R3 release also includes new REST API and .NET SDK as well as personas to drive feature requirements.

Agile development will continue to be a major focus on existing tools to enhance developer productivity. However, it will also continue its growing role as a provider of end-to-end solutions that address many areas of the software development process, such as requirements gathering, planning, production, maintenance, etc. Telerik said by integrating with Git and GitHub, the TeamPulse R3 Agile project management software bridges the gap between developers and business users by giving transparency to development projects while at the same time, letting developers update work within their preferred IDE. It also offers the same functionality for TFS and can synch both TFS and GitHub, simultaneously.

“With the many tools and existing systems already in play across the enterprise, having a project management platform that can easily integrate and improve adaptability of systems is a requirement,” said Christopher Eyhorn, EVP of ALM Tools, Telerik. “Today we take a huge step forward by integrating with the most popular developer technologies and ensuring a customer-centric development practice is top of mind for its user community.”

The new REST API covers all work item types, projects, teams, comments, time tracking data and acceptance criteria for developers to easily update the status of their work and integrate the agile project management software with any existing system. With this release, Telerik also introduce a .NET SDK which allows developers to create custom applications and widgets on top of TeamPulse and stemming from data generated by the TeamPulse agile project management software.

The new release of TeamPulse includes end-user personas for specific personal profiles such as creating more customer-centric development approach and deploying relevant functionality enhancements. Finally, the upgrade makes it possible to track testing efforts inside of TeamPulse. Developers can now track acceptance criteria for each requirement based on pass or fail results.

Telerik expansion comes on the heels of a number of recent updates. The TeamPulse recently got a face lift with support from an HTML5 interface. The HTML5 interface enables developers to quickly and easily perform daily activities such as tracking of project status and updating of project works.