Dan Podsedly • Thursday, September 11, 2014 • News

Recent Tracker Outages and Planned Stability Improvements

Pivotal Tracker is a critical tool for thousands of teams, and providing a stable, reliable service is vitally important for us. Uptime is typically in the proverbial “three nines” (99.95% for the first half of the year), but in the last few weeks we’ve experienced a number of unexpected outages. The worst of which was yesterday, lasting almost two hours. This was disruptive to many of you, and we’d like to apologize. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Monday, August 25, 2014 • Updates

Updated Dashboard, Now with Volatility!

We’ve released the first of a couple of updates to the dashboard, aiming for a cleaner, clearer view of your projects. In this update, as well as a fresh new look, subscribing to RSS feeds has moved and there’s the addition of each project’s volatility. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Wednesday, August 20, 2014 • Updates

Introducing Annotations

Say farewell to time spent writing a long comment describing where something is wrong. Gone are the days of seeing a comment and wondering, “What?! I don’t see it.” Here(!) are the days of taking a screenshot, dropping a pin on it and appending a note to succinctly and specifically say what you want to say. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Tuesday, August 5, 2014 • Productivity

More, Better, Faster—CSV Import/Export Now with Epics!

Though your stories look gorgeous in Tracker, exporting to CSV is a handy way to make a backup, share a different view of particular stories, do bulk updates, make a report, or create a project template. To make getting stories into and out of Tracker easier for you, we’ve improved several aspects of CSV import and export. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Friday, July 11, 2014 • Updates

Annotations, Multiple Uploads, and Owners, Oh My!

We’re excited about the latest round of features in the iOS Tracker App! We think they’ll make you faster at giving feedback and we’ve removed some of the noise when navigating a story. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, July 10, 2014 • Updates

New in the Tracker Beta: Attack of the (Story) Clones!

It’s finally here: you can now make copies of your stories with one click story cloning! Break larger stories down more easily, create stories similar to existing ones, or use icebox stories with elaborate tasks as templates for new projects. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Tuesday, June 17, 2014 • Updates

Manual Planning in Tracker’s UI and API

As promised here, we’ve replaced the old Commit Mode feature with a new way to manually plan your current iteration. It’s available now in both the original and beta versions of Tracker. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Thursday, June 12, 2014 • Updates

Tracker iOS is Now Available in Japanese, German, and French

This is really exciting for us. Our first foray into localizing Pivotal Tracker. Our hope is to roll out more languages very soon for our iOS app. Read more...

Charlie Springer • Thursday, May 22, 2014 • Integrations

Code Climate: Making Quality Part of Your Tracker Workflow

I was chatting with the folks over at Code Climate the other day about their integration with Tracker. We blushed when finding out Tracker was one of their first integrations and thought we should take a minute to share a little more info about it! Read more...

Mark Michael • Friday, May 16, 2014 • News

May 15th Outage: Post Mortem

Thursday, May 15th, at approximately 3:30pm Mountain Time, our customers experienced 45 minutes of unexpected downtime. The root cause of the problem was a misconfigured load balancer. A planned maintenance event increased the traffic load for a short period of time causing the misconfigured load balancer to behave poorly and eventually fail. This resulted in a cascading event as each load balancer crashed when traffic was diverted to the next available load balancer. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Thursday, May 15, 2014 • Updates

Commit Mode Update and API Changes

When a team begins a new project, it can take some time for their velocity to stabilize. Tracker’s “Commit Mode” enables scheduling more or fewer stories into the current iteration, sprint or cycle than Tracker would plan automatically. This manual control over the stories included in the current iteration was originally seen as a temporary planning need, so it has only been available on a per-iteration basis. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Wednesday, April 30, 2014 • Updates

Beta Update: Scrolling Improvements, Internet Explorer Support, and More

You know that reload message? Well it was worth clicking today as the Tracker beta UI has quite a few improvements, including removing the “Unsupported Browser” message for IE 10 and IE 11. There are still some minor issues, but we’ve completed a full pass of testing, and you can use these browsers for your projects. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Friday, April 25, 2014 • Updates

Tracker iOS 7 App Now Available

You may be asking yourself, “Has something changed? Have you been working out? Did you cut your hair?”” The answer is Yes. Tracker has been redesigned for iOS 7. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Tuesday, April 22, 2014 • Productivity

Crunch Time—A Pivotal POV

To truly understand Tracker you need to appreciate how Labs does what is does. Onsi Fakhouri does a great job explaining just that. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post. Read more...

Nick Seemiller • Thursday, April 10, 2014 • News

Pivotal Tracker and the Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability

A serious security vulnerability was recently uncovered: CVE–2014–0160, AKA “Heartbleed.“ The Pivotal Tracker team has worked with our hosting provider and determined that none of our externally exposed servers were affected by this vulnerability. Read more...

Drew McKinney • Friday, April 4, 2014 • Updates

Beta Enabled for All Tracker Users, Plus Email Updates

Exciting news! All users now have access to the redesigned Pivotal Tracker, which includes an improved UI, multi-project workspace, cross-project search, in-app notifications and so much more. Read more about the Tracker Beta here. Read more...

Ashton Kemerling • Wednesday, April 2, 2014 • Productivity

Generative Testing

The Tracker Team spent the last week working on individual projects to improve the product. This post is the first in a series about what we did, and how it went. Read more...

Drew McKinney • Monday, March 24, 2014 • Updates

Threaded Emails and Project Notification Muting

We’ve streamlined the way email notifications are sent from Tracker, reducing inbox noise and improving email readability. We’ve also given you more control over which notifications you see in-app and in email. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Monday, March 17, 2014 • Productivity

Take Control of Your Pivotal Tracker Notifications

Email notifications allow you to stay connected with your project when away from Pivotal Tracker, and respond quickly when needed, for example to answer questions in story comments or accept delivered stories. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Monday, March 10, 2014 • Updates

Tracker Beta Roadshow: Spring 2014

The next generation of Pivotal Tracker is now in public beta, rolling out to everyone gradually. If you’ve already had a chance to test drive it, we hope you like what you’ve seen so far! Read more...