To everyone in our community–We’d like to reassure you that Tracker and the Tracker team are here for you and working to maintain business as usual during these unusual times. Read more...
Let’s face it, being a Product manager is stressful. Deadlines, metrics, team dynamics, changing priorities, attention to detail, big picture thinking, oh and backlogs that continue to grow and shame us with their mere existence. It’s also not uncommon to think we’re not doing as well as we could and that other organizations are probably doing a better job. Read more...
Got Opinions? We’d love to know what you’re thinking and would really appreciate it if you’d take our survey. Read more...
Join us for a panel discussion on product management’s role in modern cross-functional teams as the Product Stack welcomes Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence from Procore Technologies and author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, along with Agile Coach Jennifer Payne from ProductPlan, Product Manager Hadrien Raffalli from Pivotal Tracker, and VP of Products and UX Kevin Steigerwald from Jama Software. Read more...
We recently launched a Consultancy Directory, featuring consultancies representing a wide variety of sizes, services offered, and locations. So if you’re in the service business and use Pivotal Tracker, we’d love for you to add your business. Read more...
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...
As a team that engages in our fair share of presentations, we know how important it is to nail it, so we’re always looking for ways to improve our game. That’s why we’re extremely happy to be able to share valuable tips with our readers by offering a free download of the book, Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking, by Karen Catlin and Poornima Vijayashanker. This is a limited-time exclusive—good through the end of the year only—so please take advantage soon. Read more...
Many product managers transition into product management from project management. How to do this and what the differences in these roles are was the central topic of a recent panel discussion held in the Denver offices of Pivotal. Read more...
We are extremely proud to be a partner with Notion and Product Plan in hosting The Product Stack. Our most recent webinar, “Aligning Product Strategy with Customer Feature Requests,” is available below if you were unable to attend the live broadcast. Read more...
One of the main reasons people enjoy and stick with Tracker is that at heart, we’re a relatively straightforward to-do app for software teams. By keeping the features you need to get your job done—and only the features you need—at the forefront of the app, we ensure that teams new and old aren’t confused or distracted by the tool that’s there to facilitate the work. Read more...
Pivotal Tracker, Notion, and Product Plan recently banded together to create The Product Stack. Our goal is to foster a community where product owners can stay on top of their trade by sharing the processes and tools they use—at every stage of the development cycle—to manage their product. Read more...
We are excited to be sponsoring a $500 cash prize for the best Pivotal Tracker post submitted in AirPair’s $100K developer writing competition! Read more...
We’re very happy to announce that we are the exclusive sponsors of FemgineerTV, a series of webisodes geared towards tech professionals interested in entrepreneurship and leadership. Read more...
This is really exciting for us. Our first foray into localizing Pivotal Tracker. Our hope is to roll out more languages very soon for our iOS app. Read more...
To truly understand Tracker you need to appreciate how Labs does what is does. Onsi Fakhouri does a great job explaining just that. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post. Read more...
The next generation of Pivotal Tracker is now in public beta, rolling out to everyone gradually. If you’ve already had a chance to test drive it, we hope you like what you’ve seen so far! Read more...
We’re thrilled that Ramen exists and couldn’t be more delighted that they asked us to be a core partner. How could we not support a company that used Tracker to help them crush it at the 11/2013 LAUNCH Hackathon and win first place. Besides being an obviously talented and focused development team, their hearts and minds are dedicated to the same cause we espouse: Startups! Read more...
Normally we wouldn’t make any noise about a simple facelift to our marketing site, but we’re making an exception in this case because we’ve done a little more than that. Read more...
We are happy to announce the availability of Usersnap, the #1 screenshot tool for web development as a new third party add-on to Pivotal Tracker. Get annotated screenshots of the current browser content, directly delivered to Tracker. Read more...
“I’ve been looking for a couple months for the right third-party tools, and couldn’t find them, so I decided to make my own,” said Brian Noah from eGood. We love and admire that initiative in our users, especially when they build something this cool. The app he had to build is called Member Tracker! Read more...
Tracker Tracker is an open-source web app that allows you to see and work with stories from across multiple projects in one Kanban style view, with search and filtering. That’s huge. We have nothing else to say on the matter really. For anyone juggling multiple projects in Pivotal Tracker this is a must consider app. Read more...
With all these APIs floating around, don’t you sometimes wish that apps would just talk to each other and keep us humans out of it? We’re not there yet, but we’re getting close with CloudWork. Read more...
Last month we introduced an exciting integration between Tracker and Wazoku’s awesome idea software. Wazoku is ideally suited to all you Product Managers looking for the tools to capture the best product ideas from across the business, filter and prioritize them and then in a single click create the story in Tracker. Read more...
It’s not that designers and developers don’t or can’t get along. What the team at Redline realized is that they speak a different language. So to facilitate the communication between these two life forms they created this tool. Read more...
Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight is a fabulous new tool for Product Managers to manage and filter product development ideas. Now that they’ve integrated Tracker (We’re flattered to be their first third party integration), it’s borderline alchemical, transmuting raw ideas into stories is simple and seamless. Read more...
Airbrake is a great tool for identifying errors generated by other apps all in one place. I guess if you’re the offending app you might call it a rat, snitch, stool pigeon or fink, but to the rest of us it’s the canary in the coal mine that can save your butt. Read more...
When it comes to app match ups no-one does it cleaner than Zapier. The way I see it, they’re the bread that surrounds a PB&J sandwich. Sure the good stuff is in the middle, but you wouldn’t be able to enjoy it without getting your fingers dirty if it weren’t for the bread. Read more...
Email is an antiquated concept that is an unmitigated productivity killer. Personally I have a suspicion that it’s actually Skynet 1.0. That said, it ain’t going away tomorrow or next month and or even by the end of the decade. So what is a human to do. Read more...
Leftronic has produced a really nice clean dashboard to view all your company’s data in one place. Real-time data beautifully organized and rendered. View info from Google Analytics and Adwords, Zendesk, Amazon Web Services, New Relic, Salesforce, Pingdom, Mail Chimp and more on one customized screen. Read more...
Congrats to our friend Jeff Ma and his latest enterprise tenXer for being written up in the New York Times. Read more...
The courageous folk working on the GOV.UK website (an experimental “beta” replacement for Directgov and the first step towards a single government website) have regularly written about their experience and their blog is a worthwhile read. Read more...
We’re proud to introduce a brand new feature to Pivotal Tracker: epics. Epics are a powerful management tool providing teams with big-picture detail. It sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s what epics offer—the ability to zoom out and zoom in at the same time. Read more...
Is it a sign of the times that the cloud-based tools that allow us to work together better now need a tool of their own to work together better? A meta betta togetha tool in other words. Read more...
Learn all you need to know about the state of the art in Agile SaaS. Don’t miss this FREE five-week course from Professors Armando Fox and David Patterson of UC Berkeley, the authors of Engineering Long-Lasting Software. Read more...
This is the first of regular featured Pivotal Tracker customer profiles. If you’d like to share your own, let us know! Read more...
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