GoodData, provider of an on-demand, cloud-based business intelligence platform, has just launched Pivotal Tracker Analytics, a brand-new application to help you measure your agile development process. Read more...
You can now create custom point scales for your Pivotal Tracker projects. This is one of our most commonly requested features, especially from teams that practice, and/or use the planning poker form of estimation. Read more...
We’ve made a few improvements to how story tasks work in Pivotal Tracker. They’re now turned on by default for all new projects, they can be added to a new story before it’s saved, and you can drag them to rearrange their order. Read more...
As Dan mentioned on Monday, Tracker uses an architecture in which a large number of polling requests are serviced by web servers communicating with an in-memory cache, and over the past few weeks we’ve hit a number of resource limits on our cache servers. Yesterday we found a small change that had a big impact on this resource load. Read more...
Atlassian has just announced a number of improvements to their Pivotal Tracker importer JIRA plugin. It now imports iterations and labels, chores and tasks are turned into new JIRA issue types, imported issues link back to the corresponding Tracker stories, and more! Read more...
To address some of the problems we experienced recently, we’re moving the Pivotal Tracker cache servers to dedicated hardware tomorrow (Wednesday) night, at 8pm Pacific Daylight Time. This move may require up to 15 minutes of downtime, but we expect improved stability as a result of the change. Please accept our apologies in advance for the inconvenience. Read more...
We’ve had a number of brief outages and/or periods of degraded performance in the last few weeks. I’d like to shed some light on what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to prevent them in the future. Read more...
This has been a common question recently, and so I’d like to take a few minutes and explain how the 60-day free trial works in Pivotal Tracker, clarify what your options are at the end of the trial, and also revisit what public projects are again. Read more...
We’ve made a few usability improvements to Pivotal Tracker related to viewing and editing of stories, as well as file attachment handling. Read more...
We’ve added a new email notification to Pivotal Tracker which will let you know when someone assigns a story to you. There are also a few new additions to the API, related to projects and iterations. Read more...
TrackerBot, from Vulpine Labs, is a great new app that brings Pivotal Tracker to your iPad and/or iPhone, complete with multi-touch, drag and drop, and off-line support. It’s available now in the app store. Read more...
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...
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...
As part of the recently announced Tracker pricing introduction, we’re offering a 20% discount for the first year. This discount is available until February 18, 2011. Read more...
Pivotal Labs has been at the forefront of agile since it’s early days. We’ve honed our skills on hundreds of successful projects, and evolved agile techniques into a very effective, and practical software development process. Along the way, we also built Pivotal Tracker, a very popular project management and collaboration app, which embodies that process. Read more...
Accounts in Pivotal Tracker are used for project organization and administration delegation. They are also what paid subscription plans are associated with. Read more...
Last week, we announced that we’re introducing pricing for Pivotal Tracker. Since then, we’ve received a great deal of thoughtful and constructive feedback, and we’re very grateful that the majority of you have shown support of Tracker’s move to be a paid product. We really appreciate all of your positive comments. Read more...
First, we’d like to thank all Pivotal Tracker users. We couldn’t be more grateful for all of the support and feedback we’ve received from you. Today, we’re introducing pricing for Tracker. All of the details, including price plans and transition information, are below. Read more...
The team at Flowdock, a real time team communication platform, just announced integration with Pivotal Tracker. You can now connect Tracker with Flowdock, and see your project activity in the context of your online conversations. Read more...
Pivotal Tracker has some updates for the new year: we’ve added a built-in integration with Bugzilla, a popular bug tracking tool, redesigned the My Projects page to make it easier to use, and made the Zendesk integration more flexible. More details on all of this below. Read more...
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