What is Pivotal Tracker?
Tracker, from Pivotal Labs, is a simple, story-based project planning tool that allows teams to collaborate and instantly react to real-world changes. It's based on agile software development methods, but it can be used on a variety of types of projects. Tracker frees you up to focus on getting things done, without getting bogged down keeping your plans in sync with reality.
Pivotal Tracker is completely free, there is no software to install, and it only takes a few minutes to sign up. There are no commitments, you will never receive any spam from us, and we will never share your email address or other information with anyone. To find out more about Pivotal Tracker, read the Getting Started Guide, as well as our Frequently Asked Questions.
The Tracker Story
If you're interested in the philosophy behind Pivotal Tracker, and it's development history, please read The Tracker Story. You may also be interested in this Ruby on Rails podcast episode about Pivotal Tracker.
It's Free!
Pivotal Tracker is a completely free service. Use it for commercial software development, open source projects, or as a personal to-do list.
Highlights
- Emergent Iterations
- Tracker calculates future iterations automatically, based on historical performance. Focus on prioritizing and completing your stories; let Tracker take care of planning future iterations, based on actual progress.
- One View of Project
- Move and prioritize stories easily with drag-and-drop. See everything that matters in your project in one glance, and there's no waiting for pages to load. When someone else on your team makes a change to a story, you see it instantly.
- Simple Workflow
- Jump right into your project with a simple workflow that emphasizes rapid delivery and early customer feedback. Simplify your process, rather than struggle to manage complexity.
- Import & Export
- It's easy to import stories from other tools, or export them to a CSV file. You can even use a spreadsheet program to update Tracker stories. Just export your project, move, update, or add stories with your favorite spreadsheet program, and import them back to Tracker.
- File Attachments
- Upload images and documents and attach them to your stories. Your files are stored safely and securely using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
- Labels
- Labels allow you to organize and find stories easily. Tag your stories with as many labels as you'd like.
- Simple Release Planning
- Planning a release is easy with Tracker. Just drag a release marker to the backlog below all the stories that you'd like in that release, and let Tracker take care of the rest.
- Email Notifications
- Receive instant email notifications when interesting things occur in any of your projects.
- Unlimited Projects
- Create as many projects as you'd like, and invite everyone. There are no limits, and Tracker is completely free!
- Charts
- Keep an eye on your project with Tracker's built-in charts, including release burn-down, iteration burn-up, story type breakdown, and historical velocity.
- Search
- Find stories quickly with Tracker's easy-to-use full text search, or use more advanced search criteria for more powerful queries.
- History
- See everything that's recently happened in your project recently, as well as the entire change history for a particular story.
- Reporting
- Generate progress reports from any of your projects, based on simple criteria.
- Visibility
- Include project activity in your RSS reader, follow projects on Twitter, and see Tracker updates live in your team's Campfire chat room.
- Developer API
- If you're a developer, it's easy to extend Tracker and build your own tools using the Tracker Developer API. There is a growing collection of useful third-party tools already available. And we have web hooks!
- Integration
- Prioritize and collaborate around stories linked to tickets in your bug tracking tool or support site. Tracker integrates with JIRA, Lighthouse, Satisfaction, Zendesk, as well as a flexible interface to support other tools. More integrations are on the way!
- SCM Hooks
- Tracker supports integration with your Source Control Management system. We support Subversion, GitHub, and Git, plus you can create your own hooks for other systems.
- Stable & Secure
- Tracker is hosted on Engine Yard, a highly scalable, secure Rails hosting service, with full 24/7 support.
- Active User Community
- Get support and share ideas with our active user community. There are thousands of other Tracker users out there!
- SSL Encryption
- Tracker supports SSL encryption, for secure, private transmission of your project data.
Download the Pivotal Tracker presentation.
