Dan Podsedly • Friday, March 4, 2011 •

New in Pivotal Tracker: Reply to Emails, Delete Comments, and Browse Public Projects!

Team collaboration with Pivotal Tracker just got better. You can now post comments to stories right from your inbox by replying to any story notification email. That’s not all that’s new in this update—we’ve also added the ability to delete unwanted story comments, you can add extra notes like company address or tax ID to your billing receipts, and there’s a new public projects directory. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Monday, February 28, 2011 • Updates

Public Projects Directory and Feed Coming to Tracker

We’re launching a new public projects directory in Pivotal Tracker this Friday. If you own or use public projects in Tracker, continue reading, as these projects are about to get much easier to discover. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Saturday, December 4, 2010 • Updates

New in Tracker: Updated Look and Google Accounts Sign-in

The Tracker team has been busy since the hosting move last month. We’ve shifted our focus from improving Tracker’s performance and stability, to core product enhancement. This update introduces an updated visual design, as well the first wave of usability improvements. We’ve also added some new features, including the ability to sign in to Tracker with your Google Account. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Tuesday, September 28, 2010 • Productivity

Defrosting Your Icebox

Pivotal Tracker makes it easy to add stories to you project. Hit Ctrl-A, type a quick sentence along the lines of “As a user, I can…so that…”. On most of our projects, we find ourselves discovering new stories all the time, based on the continuous feedback loop that Tracker encourages. Not all stories end up in the backlog, but it’s liberating to be able to capture new ideas and user feedback as they occur. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, July 21, 2010 • Productivity

One Team, One Tracker Project

I often hear questions from Pivotal Tracker users about how to organize teams and projects. We also see many requests for features that would make it easier to see stories from across multiple projects. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Monday, April 19, 2010 • News

Looking for Ruby on Rails Developers

Pivotal Labs has been at the forefront of agile development since it’s early days. We’ve taken what we’ve learned by applying agile concepts on a countless number of real world projects, and honed these skills into a very effective way to build software. Along the way, we also built a great project management and collaboration tool: Pivotal Tracker. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, August 6, 2009 • Productivity

Story Tasks in Pivotal Tracker

At Pivotal Labs, we like to keep our Tracker stories as small as possible, so that each story describes a single, concrete feature that delivers incremental value to our project’s customer. With small stories, there is rarely a need to break things down further, but sometimes it’s still useful to keep a to-do list while working on a story. This helps keep track of all the little things you have to do, and lets everyone else on the project know exactly what’s left. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, December 19, 2008 • Productivity

Agile Tools: Simplify, Instead of Managing Complexity

Great article comparing Pivotal Tracker to Mingle, as an example of a tool that simplifies things, rather than trying to manage complexity “and getting in the way.” Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, August 27, 2008 • News

Tracker in Agile Project Tool Review Post

Bruno Miranda posted a review of various agile project management tools including Mingle, VersionOne, TargetProcess, and Tracker. Read more...

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