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Author: Nathan Swain

Nathan Swain
Productivity

Reverse story creation order in panels!

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The Tracker team is very happy to announce that it’s now possible to change where your newly added stories are placed in your panels! Instead of them being placed at the top, you now have the ability to send them to the bottom! Read more...

Nathan Swain
Updates

Managing Reviews Made Simpler!

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With the release of our newest major feature (Reviews), we’ve received a record amount of feedback from users like you! We’re using all of this fantastic feedback to shape how Reviews will evolve going forward, and also have some first round improvements that we’re ready to share with you. Read more...

Nathan Swain
Productivity

Customizing Your Tracker Experience

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Tracker’s interface is designed to provide a customizable experience to suit the needs of various roles and needs. This post will help ensure you’re getting the most out of Tracker, with features such as resizing and rearranging panels, cloning panels, splitting/combining current and backlog, pinned searches, workspaces, and more. Read more...

Nathan Swain
Updates

Tiny Icon, Much Passion!

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Tracker recently experimented with our browser tab favicon, with the primary purpose of introducing a new feature to show if you have unread in-app notifications. While doing so, we also altered the look of the icon and Tracker logo. Wow, did we ever receive passionate feedback about that! We definitely took that feedback seriously. Read more...

Nathan Swain
Productivity

Migrating to Pivotal Tracker from a Third-Party Tool

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Welcome to everyone who recently started using Tracker! If you were using a different project management tool previously, you probably have tickets or stories you’d like to get into your Tracker projects. One convenient way to migrate them over to Tracker is to place them in a CSV file that’s compatible with Tracker’s import tool. Below, we’ve outlined five easy steps to accomplish that. Read more...

Nathan Swain
Productivity

Getting the Most Out of Tracker with Team Strength and Velocity Override

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Being that we’re all human, sometimes things happen that might disrupt a project’s “normal” flow: we get sick, we take a vacation, we put in extra hours to make a deadline, etc. When life happens, it’s good to reflect that in Tracker so we can depict the most accurate Velocity, and thus plan our iterations using the most true-to-life data possible. In Tracker, we do this by using a fun little feature called Team Strength (TS). Read more...

Nathan Swain
Productivity

Working with Iterations in Tracker

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If you’re new to Tracker (or Agile in general), our methodology might seem a bit strange at first, especially when it comes to the behavior of Tracker’s iterations (i.e., sprints) and how your stories move through them. Hopefully this will serve to answer any questions related to this and get you on a path to tracking with confidence. Read more...