Leftronic has produced a really nice clean dashboard to view all your company’s data in one place. Real-time data beautifully organized and rendered. View info from Google Analytics and Adwords, Zendesk, Amazon Web Services, New Relic, Salesforce, Pingdom, Mail Chimp and more on one customized screen. Read more...
Congrats to our friend Jeff Ma and his latest enterprise tenXer for being written up in the New York Times. Read more...
One of the goals of Pivotal Tracker is to give everyone on your team the same view of your project, and allow people to work with individual stories but without losing sight of the big picture. Read more...
The courageous folk working on the GOV.UK website (an experimental “beta” replacement for Directgov and the first step towards a single government website) have regularly written about their experience and their blog is a worthwhile read. Read more...
We recently launched epics, to make it easier to plan and track progress of large features at a high level. Whether you are in the early stages of defining your product or have a Pivotal Tracker project you are working in already, epics can help you manage your work more effectively. In this article, we’ll show how to create epics, for a hypothetical shopping site project. Read more...
We’re proud to introduce a brand new feature to Pivotal Tracker: epics. Epics are a powerful management tool providing teams with big-picture detail. It sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s what epics offer—the ability to zoom out and zoom in at the same time. Read more...
Bugzilla is a popular Tracker integration and fairly straightforward to set up. In general all you need is here. But if you do receive an error message instead of bugs loading in your Bugzilla integration panel, here are some tips to get past them. Read more...
We’re moving Pivotal Tracker to a new, faster database server with solid state drives tomorrow, and performing some other maintenance that requires downtime. To minimize disruption during work hours in as many parts of the world as possible, we’re planning this maintenance for tomorrow, Saturday, March 31, at 9am Pacific, and we anticipate it to take approximately one hour. Read more...
It’s official: Pivotal Labs, the company that made and owns Pivotal Tracker, has been acquired by EMC, and we are thrilled! You can read all about it here. Read more...
Is it a sign of the times that the cloud-based tools that allow us to work together better now need a tool of their own to work together better? A meta betta togetha tool in other words. Read more...
Last week, we launched a complete redesign of stories, as part of our ongoing effort to make Tracker easier and more enjoyable to use. We’ve received a great amount of feedback about what’s working well in the new design, as well as what could be improved. As a product team, we’re extremely lucky to have users who time and again have shown such passion—thank you, we really couldn’t do this without you! Read more...
Learn all you need to know about the state of the art in Agile SaaS. Don’t miss this FREE five-week course from Professors Armando Fox and David Patterson of UC Berkeley, the authors of Engineering Long-Lasting Software. Read more...
Stories in Pivotal Tracker have been given a serious upgrade. For the most part it’s all pretty self explanatory—the functionality you’re used to is all there, just in a format that’s more intuitive, user friendly and hopefully you’ll agree, more appealing. Our advice, play with it and then come back and read the rest of this post, especially if anything is confusing. Read more...
We’ve got a major update of Pivotal Tracker planned for this weekend, which requires downtime while we run a fairly major database schema migration. Read more...
We’re working on a new version of the Pivotal Tracker developer API, with a long list of improvements. The release of this is a few months away, but to prepare for it, we’re removing the old version (V2) of the API. This change (removal of V2) is tentatively planned for January 27, 2012, just over three weeks from today. Read more...
Apigee, a company that helps you use and develop APIs, just announced a number of new API consoles, including for Pivotal Tracker. The Pivotal Tracker API Console allows you to explore the API from within your browser, and makes it easy to test and debug your code that uses the API. Check it out! Read more...
We’re planning the first of an ongoing series of Webinars for Pivotal Tracker users for next Wednesday, Dec 21, at 11:00am PST (19:00 GMT). Read more...
Hojoki is a new collaboration app that promises to “make all your cloud apps work as one,” by integrating many of the most popular services that your team uses daily (including Pivotal Tracker, of course) into a personalized activity stream. Read more...
Version 1.1 of the Pivotal Tracker for iOS app is now available in the iTunes App Store. This update adds the Search and My Work panels, a redesigned iPhone interface, and many overall usability improvements. Read more...
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