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...

Nina Mehta • Friday, June 7, 2013 • Productivity

Remote Control

Most people who have worked remote will agree—nay—commiserate on how hard it is. I’ve done it before, and while it never really gets easier, you learn to get used to it. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 • News

Seize Your Pivotal Tracker @username!

We’re about to introduce improvements to Pivotal Tracker which will help your team communicate more effectively. In order to do this, we’ll be making your (currently optional) Tracker username a requirement. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Friday, May 24, 2013 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Member Tracker

“I’ve been looking for a couple months for the right third-party tools, and couldn’t find them, so I decided to make my own,” said Brian Noah from eGood. We love and admire that initiative in our users, especially when they build something this cool. The app he had to build is called Member Tracker! Read more...

Paul Davis • Tuesday, May 14, 2013 • Productivity

Gansen and Kunesh on Agile Development in the Obama 2012 Campaign

The Obama 2012 campaign has been hailed as the most tech-savvy and data-driven to date, a sophisticated operation led by CTO Harper Reed. Reed had no problem finding developers eager to join the campaign—the challenge was finding people up for the formidable task before them. A Presidential campaign poses unique challenges: an environment where volatility is the only constant, developers must iterate often, yet there is little margin for error. To meet this challenge, Reed and his team placed an emphasis on people who could resolve problems and learn quickly, rather than focusing on a particular skill set. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 • News

Monday's Tracker Outage, New Status Page

This week started on the wrong foot with a 1 hour and 45 minute outage early Monday morning, that affected many of you. I’d like to apologize for this, and shed some light on what happened. Read more...

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...

Joanne Webb • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 • Integrations

Six Third-Party Tools for Automatic Bug Creation and More

Pivotal Tracker lets you stay on top of everything to do with your project, but sometimes your stories need a little something extra. Read more...

Christian Niles • Wednesday, March 6, 2013 • Updates

Pivotal Tracker for iOS 1.6.1: Fixes Romaji and Other Text Input Issues: 失礼しました｡

We’ve just released version 1.6.1 of the Pivotal Tracker iOS app, which includes fixes for a number of text input problems. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Wednesday, March 6, 2013 • Updates

Browser Support in Pivotal Tracker

As we recently wrote, 2013 will see major improvements to Pivotal Tracker, on a rebuilt foundation (including a brand new API), followed by major new features and an updated design. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Monday, March 4, 2013 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Tracker Tracker

Tracker Tracker is an open-source web app that allows you to see and work with stories from across multiple projects in one Kanban style view, with search and filtering. That’s huge. We have nothing else to say on the matter really. For anyone juggling multiple projects in Pivotal Tracker this is a must consider app. Read more...

Christian Niles • Wednesday, February 27, 2013 • Updates

Greatly Refined Story Editing in Pivotal Tracker for iOS 1.6

Today we’ve released Pivotal Tracker for iOS 1.6 to the App Store. With this release we’ve thoroughly refined the app to make updating stories easier and more enjoyable. 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...

Dan Podsedly • Tuesday, February 5, 2013 • Updates

2013 Tracker Update: New Features, New API, New Design

January has gone by quickly! Hopefully the new year is already off to a great start for you and your entire team. I’d like to share what we’ve been up to recently, and give you a preview of what to expect in 2013. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Monday, February 4, 2013 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: CloudWork

With all these APIs floating around, don’t you sometimes wish that apps would just talk to each other and keep us humans out of it? We’re not there yet, but we’re getting close with CloudWork. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 • Integrations

Tracker and Wazoku Webinar

Last month we introduced an exciting integration between Tracker and Wazoku’s awesome idea software. Wazoku is ideally suited to all you Product Managers looking for the tools to capture the best product ideas from across the business, filter and prioritize them and then in a single click create the story in Tracker. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Monday, November 26, 2012 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Redline.cc

It’s not that designers and developers don’t or can’t get along. What the team at Redline realized is that they speak a different language. So to facilitate the communication between these two life forms they created this tool. Read more...

Charlie Springer • Tuesday, November 6, 2012 • Productivity

Tracker Screencast: Release Markers

What’s a release? For us at Tracker it’s a marker in your backlog that represents the most important milestones. As you can see in the screencast, creating a release marker is just like making a story. Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Thursday, October 11, 2012 • Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Wazoku

Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight is a fabulous new tool for Product Managers to manage and filter product development ideas. Now that they’ve integrated Tracker (We’re flattered to be their first third party integration), it’s borderline alchemical, transmuting raw ideas into stories is simple and seamless. Read more...