Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, February 14, 2018 • BuildTV

Product Design: 3 Key Tips to Keep in Mind When Designing for Accessibility

The goal of the last episode was to give you solid understanding of accessibility, and all the things you could think about when designing a product with accessibility in mind. But we understand it might be a lot to tackle, which is why in this episode, we’re going to boil it down into three key tips that are critical and will make a big impact. Read more...

Thomas Osugi • Thursday, February 8, 2018 • Updates

Recovering Deleted Stories

Losing a story in Tracker is no fun, whether it’s because of a simple mistake or because Bob and his glitchy delete fingers were running amok in your backlog. In either case, we now have a solution—your Project Owner can go to Project Settings and view the 100 most recently deleted stories. With one click, you can recover any or all of those deleted stories and thwart Bob’s nefarious plans once and for all. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, February 7, 2018 • BuildTV

Product Design: Why Accessibility Needs to Be Prioritized in Product Design

When designing products, we think a lot about usability—how easy to use a product is. But we often overlook another aspect of product design: accessibility. So all this month, we’re going to dive into accessibility. Read more...

Lisa Doan • Tuesday, February 6, 2018 • Updates

Epic Renovations: Changing How Epics Auto-Complete (Plus Searchable Epics)

Since the dawn of time (Tracker), Tracker has marked epics as done as soon as all scheduled stories are done. This meant that epics that contained stories in the Icebox could be marked as completed…even though there was work that hadn’t been started. This was so that unplanned stories lurking in your Icebox wouldn’t keep your epic open forever. Read more...

Jeanette Head • Thursday, February 1, 2018 • Updates

Improving Accessibility in Pivotal Tracker

Last year at a conference, I attended an open spaces session on accessibility and it really caught my attention. Since then, I’ve been taking steps to help our team build an understanding and appreciation for accessibility and the ways that we can improve Tracker with accessibility in mind. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, January 31, 2018 • BuildTV

Startup Funding: What It’s Going to Take to Get That First Check From an Investor

After what might seem like endless reality checks, I’ve saved the best episode for last! In this week’s episode, we’re going to talk about what it’s going to take to get a yes from an investor. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, January 29, 2018 • Productivity

Getting Started With Agile: Growing Great Agile Teams

In this installment, we’ll begin diving into the four foundational values of the agile manifesto to better understand the reasoning behind today’s most popular agile methodologies. Read more...

Devin Brown • Thursday, January 25, 2018 • Updates

Preview Party: Previewing Markdown Before Posting

Tracker customers have been asking for Markdown previews for a while, and we’re excited to make good on that request. The latest update features an easy and convenient way to preview your Markdown in story descriptions and comments before you post them. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, January 24, 2018 • BuildTV

Startup Funding: Why Investors Keep Saying 'No' to Your Big Idea

Think you’re onto something big, and surprised you’re receiving so many noes from investors? It can really make you second-guess yourself, and shake your confidence…but it shouldn’t! Receiving a lot of noes is natural. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, January 17, 2018 • BuildTV

Startup Funding: When It Does and Doesn’t Make Sense to Fundraise for Your Startup

This week, we’re going to continue our theme and focus on what compels us to think we need to raise capital, like competition heating up, the belief that the business will stop growing, or that the idea we’re pursuing isn’t really big enough. Read more...

Cody Sehl • Tuesday, January 16, 2018 • News

Changing Group Behavior with Small Actions: Inclusion Thing of the Week

Combating bias and promoting inclusion in the workplace is something we can all agree needs to happen. The question, then, is how to make progress on it? Read more...

Carlin Sack • Wednesday, January 10, 2018 • Community

How Product Teams Integrate Pivotal Tracker with Trello to Boost Productivity

Collaboration and sharing information with teammates is essential to successful product management. You wouldn’t rely solely on a designer to prioritize your next sprint, would you? Just like certain teammates on your product team have certain specialities, so do the tools you use throughout your product management process. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, January 10, 2018 • BuildTV

Startup Funding: How Fundraising Will Impact You in 2018—Whether You Are a Startup Founder or Employee

While I’m all for optimism, I’ve also gotta stay true to them theme of Build: debunking myths and misconceptions when it comes to building tech products, companies, and your career in tech! So we’re going to spend the next four episodes of Build debunking themes around fundraising for startups. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, January 8, 2018 • Productivity

Can Your Iteration Length Change in the Middle of Your Project?

Most agile teams work in iterations, especially those teams that follow a cadenced approach, such as scrum. And why not, since an iteration-based approach provides many advantages to teams. But while there’s little argument concerning the value of iterations, finding the right iteration length for a team is no small feat. Read more...

Nathan Swain • Monday, January 8, 2018 • News

Tracker Officially Joins G Suite SAML Apps Catalog

We’re excited to announce that Pivotal Tracker has been added as a supported application in G Suite SAML SSO Pre integrated apps catalog! Read more...

Ronan Dunlop • Wednesday, December 20, 2017 • Productivity

Grooming Your Backlog: Skills Every Product Manager Should Master

We hosted our final Product Stack webinar of the year last week, “Getting in Shape for 2018: Product Management Best Practices.” You can watch the full video below, and join the conversation to stay informed about upcoming events in the new year. Read more...

Build Tip • Wednesday, December 20, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Succeed in Your First Remote Working Position

I don’t know about you, but I cringe at the thought of having to commute. The traffic, road rage, not to mention having to find parking—it was enough to make me throw in the towel seven years ago! Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Thursday, December 14, 2017 • Productivity

Keeping Your Team on Track

One of the most striking things that nearly all highly effective teams have in common is a small—but reasonable—set of clearly defined goals for each iteration. Rather than obsessing over secondary metrics, such as the number of stories closed or the total number of points completed, successful teams measure their success by their ability to deliver on the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the iteration. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, December 13, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Get Your Teammates to Adopt Product Design Sprints

Charbel Semaan and I are back this week and prepared to help you get over the pushback you received or will receive once you bring up the idea of product design sprints to your teammates. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, December 6, 2017 • BuildTV

How a Product Design Sprint Fast-Tracks Testing Your Ideas

How many times have you and your team spent countless hours building, bug fixing, and finally releasing a new feature only to hear feedback from a customer that it’s not what they wanted? Or worse, they don’t say anything. Why? Read more...