Ronan Dunlop • Wednesday, January 29, 2014 • Integrations

Ramen: Partners in Heart and Mind

We’re thrilled that Ramen exists and couldn’t be more delighted that they asked us to be a core partner. How could we not support a company that used Tracker to help them crush it at the 11/2013 LAUNCH Hackathon and win first place. Besides being an obviously talented and focused development team, their hearts and minds are dedicated to the same cause we espouse: Startups! Read more...

Lisa Crispin • Monday, January 20, 2014 • Productivity

Bugs and Chores: To Estimate, or Not to Estimate?

Most of us prefer to spend our time developing new features for our customers. But we usually have some overhead in the form of bugs and chores that takes some of our time. Since Tracker started out life on greenfield projects, it has a default setting that bugs and chores don’t get point estimates. The idea is that bugs and chores emerge over time, and while they do take time to address, they’re an ongoing and fairly consistent cost. Read more...

Lisa Crispin • Monday, January 13, 2014 • Productivity

A Healthier Approach to Estimating and Velocity

Tracker’s mission in life is to give teams an up-to-date snapshot of where they are and where they are headed. When we look at our project(s) in Tracker, we know for sure what we’ve done and what’s currently in progress. Tracker uses that information to help us visualize what we’re likely to be able to do for the next few weeks. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, December 19, 2013 • Updates

Keeping Up with Updates to the New Pivotal Tracker API

The new Pivotal Tracker Developer API (V5) has been in public beta since the summer. Usage is growing fast, and we’re seeing some great new apps built against it. Check them out in the new App Bazaar! Read more...

Joanne Webb • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 • Updates

Boolean Search in Tracker: And, Or, and More

To finish our recent round of Search updates, you can now refine searches, using AND, OR, a minus sign to exclude items, and use combinations of all search options in Tracker. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Monday, November 18, 2013 • Updates

Oooh Shiny! New Logo, New Site, and New App Directory

Normally we wouldn’t make any noise about a simple facelift to our marketing site, but we’re making an exception in this case because we’ve done a little more than that. Read more...

Volume Inc. • Monday, November 18, 2013 • News

Volume Inc. on Tracker's New Identity and Website

How did this new Pivotal Tracker’s identity system and website come about, anyway? It started with the need for Tracker to align its image and messaging in order to better identify and distinguish the product’s role as the industry leader in project management software. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, November 15, 2013 • News

New Pivotal Tracker Logo and Website

As you may have noticed, Tracker has a brand new website, and a fancy new logo, to match the rest of the Pivotal Labs family. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Thursday, November 14, 2013 • Updates

More Search Improvements

We’ve been continuing work to bring you a few more of the Search options you’ve been asking for. Read more...

Matthew Moriarty • Friday, November 8, 2013 • Updates

Following and Notifications Now in Pivotal Tracker for iOS

Pivotal Tracker for iOS 1.8 is now available in the App Store with some great new features to keep you in the loop with your team. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • Updates

Search, Webhook, and Other Tracker Improvements

The Pivotal Tracker team has its hands full, with much of our focus on a redesigned interface, with new features for teams working on larger projects. Beta access to that is just around the corner. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, October 24, 2013 • News

Unplanned Tracker Downtime Earlier Today

Pivotal Tracker went down without notice for all users today at 10:50 US Pacific time, for approximately half hour. This happened during a planned release to upgrade our production version of Solr (our search server) , as well as move our Solr-based search service to new hosts, for improved performance as well as improved search functionality. This release, like most of the releases that we do, should not have been noticed or have caused disruption to you in any way. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Wednesday, October 9, 2013 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Usersnap Your Screenshots

We are happy to announce the availability of Usersnap, the #1 screenshot tool for web development as a new third party add-on to Pivotal Tracker. Get annotated screenshots of the current browser content, directly delivered to Tracker. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Thursday, September 19, 2013 • News

"Aw, Snap!" Crashes Using Tracker in Chrome

If you’ve been seeing a lot of “Aw, Snap!”” crashes while using Tracker in Chrome, you’re not alone. An issue seems to have been introduced in Chrome 28 and several web apps and sites have been affected by it. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, September 6, 2013 • Updates

Pivotal Tracker for iOS—Now with Epics!

Version 1.7 of the Pivotal Tracker iOS app is now available in the App Store, with epics (finally!), as well as a number of usability improvements. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, August 16, 2013 • Updates

New Pivotal Tracker API Now in Public Beta

The new Pivotal Tracker developer API (V5) is now open to everyone! It’s completely new, all-JSON, much more comprehensive, and full of goodies. Keep reading for highlights and an example to get started. Read more...

Charlie Springer • Tuesday, July 2, 2013 • Community

Tracker Meetup in San Francisco

Attention Bay Area Tracker users! As you’ve probably noticed over the last couple of weeks, we’re back in action from a long winter of rebuilding Tracker from the ground up and have some new features out. There’s much more to come, and we’d love to have you at Pivotal Labs SF for a drink up and Q&A with the team. Perhaps even a sneak peek at the upcoming redesign and the new API! Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, June 26, 2013 • Updates

New in Pivotal Tracker: Story Following and User @mentions

It’s now even easier to collaborate with your teammates and keep the right people up to date. We’re very excited to announce Tracker story following and @mentioning! Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, June 20, 2013 • Updates

The Pivotal Tracker Rewrite and Improved Story Linking

If you’re a long-time Pivotal Tracker user, you’ve probably noticed that for the last year or so, things have been fairly quiet in terms of new features. That’s because we spent that time on a complete, but focused rewrite of the core of the Tracker web application, as well building a soon to be public, brand new API. Read more...

Marlena Compton • Monday, June 17, 2013 • News

Tracking Nairobi Dev Camp

On the Tracker team, I love hearing great stories about our users and the things they are able to accomplish using agile methodologies and collaboration. I’m also a woman in tech and have a keen interest in supporting other women as well as other diverse groups who work persistently to reach their goals in tech. One story I’ve been following lately is the story of Tracker user Martha Chelimo Njeri Chumo (“Njeri”) and her teammates. Read more...