Pivotal Tracker API Update

The Pivotal Tracker API has now been available for just over a year, and we’re really pleased with the rich variety of tools and applications that our user community has built with it, to extend Tracker’s functionality. There are now integration tools, wrappers for various programming languages, mobile apps, an IRC console, and many more on the way (see the third-party tools page for a comprehensive list). Read more...

Track-r, Mobile Pivotal Tracker Application by Koombea

Koombea announced the release of the Track-r application for iPhone, a mobile client for Pivotal Tracker. Track-r is a free, open source application, and was developed using Rhomobile’s RhoHub and the Rhodes “write once and run on many” framework. Trackr uses RhoSync to sync data to your device allowing you to manage your work whether or not you have an internet connection. All of your data is synced with Pivotal Tracker the next time you get a connection. Read more...

Pivotal Tracker Nominated for Crunchie Award

Pivotal Tracker has been nominated for Best Internet Application in this year’s Crunchies Awards. If you’re a fan of Tracker, please help us win the award by voting here. Read more...

Mac OS X Dashboard Widget for Pivotal Tracker

There’s a new Mac OS X Dashboard widget available that allows you to create Pivotal Tracker stories easily, right from your desktop. Read more...

New in Pivotal Tracker: Adjustable Iteration Lengths, Explicit Project Start Dates, and More!

We’ve made some minor changes to Pivotal Tracker this week, and added a few new features. As always, we look forward to you feedback on Satisfaction. Read more...

New Pivotal Tracker Feature: Points Breakdown Chart

We’ve added a new report feature to Pivotal Tracker, to help you analyze how smoothly your project is progressing. Read more...

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...

San Francisco Tracker Users Group Meeting on June 24

We’ve launched a Tracker Users Group in San Francisco, and the second meetup is on June 24th at 6:30pm at the Pivotal Labs office on Market St. Read more...

New in Pivotal Tracker: Activity Feed, Time Zones, Remember Me, Twitter, and More!

We’ve added some new features to Pivotal Tracker. Read more...

First New York Tracker Users Group Meetup on Jun 30

We’re starting a Tracker Users Group in New York, and the first meetup is on Jun 30, at 6:30pm, at the Pivotal Labs office on Chambers St. Read more...

New in Pivotal Tracker: Labels Panel, Saved Searches, and More

Pivotal Tracker has just been updated with new features. There's a new panel on the project page that will help you organize and keep track of related stories in your project - Labels and Searches. Open it using the View menu, or with Shift-L. On this panel, you'll see all labels in your project, as links, with numbers indicating the number of stories that have yet to be accepted. Click on a label to see stories with that label. Read more...

New Pivotal Tracker Features

We’ve added some new features to Pivotal Tracker, including:

• Cloning of panels
• Pinned search results
• Auto saving of panel layout
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Option to stack current iteration and the backlog

Mar. 30 Tracker Outage

Here’s some information from Engine Yard (our hosting service provider) about yesterday afternoon’s data center outage, which affected a number of applications including Pivotal Tracker. Read more...

iPhone Interface for Pivotal Tracker

I’ve been wanting to use Pivotal Tracker on my iPhone, so I wrote a little proof of concept using the Tracker API. I thought that a native application would be much more difficult than a skinned web application using ActiveResource. Read more...

Pictures from the Jolt Awards

As Ian just posted, Pivotal Tracker won a Jolt award tonight. Read more...

Public Projects in Pivotal Tracker

If you use Pivotal Tracker for open source projects, and would like to increase visibility into what your team is working on, you can now do so by making your Tracker project public. Read more...

Deliver Tracker Stories from Capistrano

The scene: Pivotal NYC. Jeff Dean walks up to Dan Podsedly, manager of Pivotal Tracker development. Jeff: Hey Dan, you asked what features we wanted in Tracker. How about a way to automatically mark all my Finished stories as Delivered, all at once? Dan: (with a sly smile) Well, we have an API call for it. Read more...

New Pivotal Tracker Features

We’ve rolled out some new features in Pivotal Tracker. Read more...

Pivotal Tracker and GTD

Michael Buffington has posted the first of a what will hopefully be a series of tours on Pivotal Tracker, this one about how Michael uses Tracker as a personal GTD-style task manager. Read more...

Mingle and Pivotal Tracker

Matthais Marschall at AgileWebOperations.com posted an interesting article the other day comparing Pivotal Tracker to Thoughtworks Mingle. He recognizes that the two tools have a very different philosophy when it comes to configurability: Mingle supports a huge number of different configuration options, whereas Tracker is intentionally very simple and more prescriptive about process. Read more...