Lisa Crispin • Friday, April 5, 2013 • Productivity

Making Testing Visible in the Tracker Workflow

As a feature story progresses through the Tracker workflow, a lot of testing activities are also underway. Team members are collaborating to turn examples of desired behaviors into business-facing tests that guide development. Testers are performing manual exploratory testing on stories as they are delivered. Performance or security testing may be underway at some point in the development process. Read more...

Jared Carroll • Sunday, March 24, 2013 • Productivity

Why Are All the Stories in Pivotal Tracker Missing Descriptions?

I asked this to my pair on my first day here at Pivotal. Read more...

Ken Mayer • Tuesday, February 19, 2013 • Productivity

Its the Volatility That Will Kill You

Volatility is what Pivotal Tracker uses to measure the consistency of your team’s work output. You can use that number to help you estimate the first approximation to answer the eternal question, “Will I make the deadline?” Read more...

Marlena Compton • Tuesday, August 7, 2012 • Productivity

Tracker on the Agile Continuum

In Tracker support, I take delight in answering support requests we get from people on teams who are thinking through the way they make software and how Tracker fits into that process. Recently, a customer asked us if Tracker can support their team’s switch from a more Scrum-focused process to a more Kanban-focused process. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, August 1, 2012 • Productivity

Velocity Matters

Last week, we made a slight tweak to how velocity is calculated in Pivotal Tracker, to handle team strength overrides in a simpler, more explainable way. As a result, if your project has an adjusted team strength in a recent iteration, you may be seeing a slightly different velocity. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Wednesday, May 9, 2012 • Productivity

How Gov.UK Keeps Calm and Carries on with Tracker

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...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, September 8, 2011 • News

The Last Lean Startup Bundle by Eric Ries (with Pivotal Tracker!)

If you’re involved in a startup, you’ve probably already discovered the transformative Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup book, by Eric Ries, is coming out in less than a few week, and Eric is running a final pre-release promotion for it: The Last Lean Startup Bundle. The bundle offers various prizes and extras for things that every startup needs, such as credits for Amazon Web Services, KISSmetrics, Sauce Labs, and of course Pivotal Tracker. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Monday, August 29, 2011 • News

Pivotal Tracker is at Dreamforce This Week

Pivotal Labs is a DevZone partner at Dreamforce, and we’ll be there to talk agile and Pivotal Tracker. If you’re attending the conference, come to the DevZone in the Cloud Expo and say hi. We’ll be doing demos, showing upcoming features (including Epics), and entering visitors into a daily prize drawing. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Monday, August 29, 2011 • Productivity

New Pivotal Tracker Video: Introduction to the Concepts

We’ve just published a new video that introduces the concepts behind Pivotal Tracker. It talks about the Agile process that works best with Tracker, including story breakdown and estimation, prioritization, and workflow. If you’re new to Tracker, or would like to make sure you’re getting the most of out of the tool, this should be 8 minutes well spent! Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, June 17, 2011 • Updates

New in Pivotal Tracker: Multi-Story Select, Drag/Drop, and iPad Usability Improvements

Happy Friday! We’ve just rolled out some changes to Pivotal Tracker, which we’re hoping will have a very noticeable impact on usability, especially for those of you who manage large projects. You can now select multiple stories with a few clicks, using shift-click, and drag them together to a new location. Also, iPad usability has been greatly improved; for example, story panels can now be scrolled with one finger, and you can move stories via drag and drop Read more...