Building upon the flexibility of the world-wide-web, the dashboard displays many scripts, forms, and reports in your web browser. See the Installation help topic for more info about which web browsers are supported and how to install them if necessary.
The connection between the dashboard and the browser is facilitated by a very small web server that is running within the dashboard. It is this web server, combined with some Java scripting, that provides all the live data communication between the dashboard and the browser. One consequence of this is that the various reports and charts that are displayed within the browser will not be available unless the dashboard is running.
An add-on module for the Process Dashboard provides nearly all the scripts defined in the book A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers by Watts Humphrey.
An add-on module for the Process Dashboard is available that provides nearly all the scripts defined in the book A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers by Watts Humphrey. However, you have not installed that module. If you would like to use the scripts listed below, click here for installation instructions.
The PSP forms and scripts in this add-on module are designed to be as close to the "real thing" as possible (the "real thing" being the forms and tables in Watts Humphrey's book). Where the online forms and scripts deviate, the text is color coded as follows:
Many of the process forms contain links to other forms that are used at that process level, making navigation through the forms simple and intuitive. Also, many of the process scripts contain little stopwatch icons on them. These icons provide another way to navigate and time a process phase. When you click on one of these icons, the current phase being measured will change to the phase indicated by the icon and the timer will start measuring time for that phase.
For information on how to access the forms, see the Accessing process scripts help topic.
The following lists detail the forms and scripts provided by the dashboard at each PSP level. Items marked by * are "live" forms that either update themselves with process data (e.g. the project summary forms) or can be expanded as necessary to permit multiple data entry (e.g. the size estimating template or the PSP3 cycle summary form).
At PSP0: