Many of the charts are very bland in appearance to the point of being hard to read on certain monitors. I have to use charts in my status reports that I still have to do in our transition to Agile (still have to live in two worlds, if you know what I mean). Let me use the burn down charts as an example. The ideal line is so thin and light colored that it is barely visible. The actual line is a little better but still very thin. I think Rally has some really nice looking charts. VA charts look like they were designed using some primitive chart generating libraries whereas Rally charts look very modern and have a lot of impact. When managers are using reports, having the information clearly visible and axes annotated correctly and with meaningful information is very important, Sure, for me, who knows what I'm looking for, the bland charts are sufficient. But why settle with sufficient? This tool has a generally good and consistent interface everywhere else, please put some polish into the charts. They should automatically scale when the window size changes. The line weights should all be increased for better visibility.
by: Mark P. | over a year ago | Reporting & Analytics
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I think the best way for VersionOne to resolve this issue is to create a data interface for reporting and to recreate the reports in a tool such as Crystal, then make those reports available to VersionOne customers. Then the customers can make whatever changes they feel are appropriate.
This is huge. I'm afraid you may not be getting all the votes for this request (and others related to highlighting blocked tasks, etc on the taskboard). I'm afraid folks evaluating various tools are choosing other tools (even if they don't have all the functionaly of versionOne).
Folks that need a collaboration tool for a few remote users and executive reportint really need the screens to have high visual impact for use in teleconferencing and stakeholder reporting meetings.
I second the request that the ideal and actual burn down lines be more bold: fatter lines and darker colors for both lines would be very helpful.
Every time I publish the Custom Reports into a Dashboard I receive complains about how the fonts are hard to read. We need to have the ability to change fonts on the generated charts from the Custom Reports feature.
I also second this, as font size adjustment capability would be a big improvement in usability. Also, line weight adjustment would be great.
Conference room projectin units do not show true colors, so when teams meet and present VersionOne burndown charts, for example, the "Ideal" line in the chart is invisible. It would be benefitial for VersionOne users to be able to customize chart trend lines, data lines, ideal lines, etc to meet their particular business and viewing needs.