Dan Podsedly • Thursday, September 7, 2017 • News

Tracker's Journey Through the Cloud

Thousands of teams around the world rely on Pivotal Tracker every day to stay focused on their projects and know exactly what to work on next. As such, we strive to keep maintenance downtimes to a minimum, but eagle-eyed weekend warriors may have recently noticed status messages about “major” infrastructure updates on two otherwise quiet Saturday mornings over the last year. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, September 6, 2017 • BuildTV

Why It’s Important to Pitch Ideas Even If It Doesn’t Come Naturally to You

Have you ever had an idea for something, like a process or product that you wanted to improve? But instead of sharing your idea with others, like your friends or coworkers, you just kept it to yourself because the thought of having to “pitch it” felt icky and salesy? Read more...

Build Tip • Wednesday, August 23, 2017 • BuildTV

Why It’s Easier for Software Product Teams to Cram Features and Bugs Into Each Release Instead of Cutting Back

For every product release, our goals are the same—we want to show customers we care about meeting their needs and we want to stay ahead of our competition! So how do we get it all done? We cram as many features and bugs as we can think of. Cutting back is for complainers! Read more...

Arunava Bhattacharya • Wednesday, August 16, 2017 • Productivity

Kovair Omnibus Integration with Pivotal Tracker

Kovair Software has partnered with Pivotal Tracker to combine the power of Tracker with other ALM tools for seamless integration of data and execution flows across multiple tools with excellent collaboration and efficient execution. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, August 16, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Keep Your Passion Project Growing Despite Challenges

In the final episode on side projects for this month, we’re going to talk about how to keep your passion project growing despite challenges. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, August 9, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Keep Your Passion Project Moving Along When You Physically Can’t

In last week’s episode of Build, we began exploring the theme of pursuing a side project while keeping your day job. Jox Dixon and I did some mythbusting around the need to go all in. If you missed the episode, you can check it out here. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, August 7, 2017 • Productivity

Splitting Stories Across Teams

If you are releasing a feature across both platforms, you may originally start with that feature described as a single user story but then split the story in two as each team tackles their respective implementations. Read more...

Vera Reynolds • Friday, August 4, 2017 • Productivity

How the Tracker Team Uses Pivotal Push Notification Service

Did that story you were waiting for get delivered? Did the project manager answer that question you asked? One of the cool things about having Tracker on your phone is the ability to get notifications about your projects on the go. Please welcome push notifications for Tracker Android, and improved notifications for Tracker iOS! Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, August 2, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Keep Your Day Job and Pursue Your Passion Project on the Side

It’s a brand-new month, and we’ve got a new theme we’ll be tackling on Build! We’re going to be talking about building, managing, and growing a side project you are passionate about while keeping your day job. Read more...

Build Tip • Monday, July 24, 2017 • BuildTV

What is Tech Debt and How Do You Manage It

It’s crunch time! You’ve got eager customers who are waiting for you to ship product, your teammates are eager to complete the release and move on, and you don’t want to be the bottleneck. So what to do you? You rush through writing your code and put in a quick fix. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Thursday, July 20, 2017 • Updates

Image Gallery for Stories and Epics

Whether it’s capturing whiteboard scribbles or some bad CSS on a webpage, image attachments have been integral part of a Tracker story. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Wednesday, July 19, 2017 • BuildTV

How to Get Started as a Mentor

All this month, Karen Catlin and I have been digging into the theme of mentoring. We started out by sharing the debut “Build” episode on why some people are reluctant to seek mentoring, and last week we talked about how to approach mentors, set expectations, and thank them. In today’s final episode on mentoring for this month, we’re going to talk about what you can do to become an effective mentor yourself. Read more...

Cody Sehl • Wednesday, July 19, 2017 • Productivity

Notes on the March 2017 iOS Security Guide

I recently read through the March 2017 iOS Security Guide and made a few notes—it’s quite dense! I thought I would share these notes so other people can benefit from the time I put in, too. Additions and clarifications from external sources where noted. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, July 17, 2017 • Productivity

How to Get More Out of Your Iteration Review

Is your iteration review just a dog-and-pony show for your stakeholders? If so, then you may be missing out on one your most important opportunities to ensure that you’re on track to delivering a great product. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, July 12, 2017 • Updates

Android v1.2.2—Now with Blockers

As we approach the second birthday of the Tracker Android app—we can still remember when it was just a burping alpha—it’s worth noting how much it continues to improve. On that point, the latest update includes even more functionality that brings the Android of our eye more in line with the Tracker web app. Version 1.2.2 is available now—go get it! Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Monday, July 10, 2017 • BuildTV

Why You Might Not Be Getting What You Want Out of Your Mentoring Relationship

Have you already tried mentoring and found that it’s not working for you? Is it because you’re just not getting what you want out of it, or other people have convinced you it’s just not worth your time? Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, July 7, 2017 • Updates

Tracker Developer API V3/V4 Versions Deprecated

The current version of the Tracker Developer API (V5) was introduced almost four years ago, and has since continuously evolved to support new Tracker features, such as the recently launched story blockers. It supports JSON payloads, flexible response customization, CORS, access to analytics data, and much more. Read more...

Lisa Doan • Thursday, July 6, 2017 • Updates

Improved Project Member Management

We’ve updated the Project Members page to be faster, more reliable, and easier to use! The page hadn’t been revised in a number of years, and some of our larger customers had begun to see marked slowness in its performance. We took the opportunity to not only improve the design of the page but also to revisit its core functionality. Read more...

Poornima Vijayashanker • Thursday, July 6, 2017 • BuildTV

Why People Resist Mentoring and How to Make It Work

Last month, I mentioned we’d be changing the format of FemgineerTV and going with a new format. We’ve broken up each episode into weekly bite-sized segments, making it more convenient for you to watch during daily breaks or to listen on the go. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, July 6, 2017 • Community

Webinar: How Product Managers and Agile Dev Teams Can See Eye to Eye

We joined forces last week with our pals at ProductPlan and Notion—collectively known as The Product Stack—for a webinar called, “How Product Managers and Agile Dev Teams Can See Eye to Eye.” Check out the video and the raw transcript below, and stay tuned for more Product Stack events coming soon. Read more...