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...

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...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, June 7, 2017 • Productivity

Lesser-Known Search Functions

When last we left our maiden voyage through lesser-known-but-crucial features of Tracker, we explored ways to make panels do your bidding. On this journey, we’ll examine the very nature of exploration itself—the search. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, May 17, 2017 • Community

Product Stack Denver—Panel

As promised, here is video of the panel discussion from our Product Stack event in Denver last week, emceed by Jay Zeschin, and featuring Jim Semick of ProductPlan, Dan Podsedly of Tracker, Jess Sherlock of GoSpotCheck, Aaron Duke of CirrusMD, and Kevin Steigerwald of Notion. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, May 16, 2017 • Community

Product Stack Denver—Keynote

Our first Product Stack event in Denver was a huge success! A large crowd of PMs and the PM-curious came out for a keynote from Jay Zeschin, CTO of Ello, as well as the full panel discussion. (There may have been some mingling and boozing as well; unconfirmed.) Here’s the full video of Jay’s talk about inflection points. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, April 18, 2017 • Community

Product Stack Denver—An Event for PMs

We’re bringing the Product Stack to the mile-high city on May 2! Don’t miss this exciting product management event! The Product Stack is a coalition of product manager allies—from ProductPlan, Pivotal Tracker, and Notion—focused on helping PMs build customer-centric products through successful product planning, more efficient sprint execution, and clearer insight into the metrics that matter most. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Monday, April 17, 2017 • Community

Case Study: 729 Solutions

729 Solutions originally began as a digital agency in the dot-com years, but under President and CEO/CTO Rob Fife, it’s morphed into a boutique agile shop that provides front-end UX/design and backend help to startups and Fortune 500 companies. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, March 30, 2017 • Community

Webinar: The Best-Kept Secrets of High-Performance Development Teams

Ever wondered what separates high-performance development organizations from shops that struggle to maintain productivity? Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, March 23, 2017 • Community

Product Stack LA: Panel Discussion

Last week, we shared an interview with Tracker’s GM, Dan Podsedly, at the inaugural Product Stack product manager event in Los Angeles. As promised, here is the full panel discussion from that night, hosted by Suzanne Abate of the podcast 100 PMs, and featuring ProductPlan’s Greg Goodman and Laure Parsons of Notion. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, March 9, 2017 • Community

Case Study: Guild Education

From their offices in Denver, CO, Guild Education partners with companies nationwide to expand the educational opportunities offered as part of their benefits package. Working with nonprofit universities that specialize in supporting working adults, Guild offers classes, programs, and degrees intended to help employees grow in their career. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Friday, January 6, 2017 • Community

Case Study: SenseGrow

Since 2014, SenseGrow has been providing software that allows their customers to connect their products to the Internet of Things. We spoke with Co-Founder and CEO Atindra Chandel about productivity, shaping agile processes to work best for his team, and their evaluation matrix. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, November 15, 2016 • Integrations

How to Integrate Kanban with Tracker

Kanban boards are a popular development tool that allow teams to visualize their projects’ workflow, with the goal of making progress clear to team members and stakeholders alike. They also foster an environment of continual improvement, which is partly why many software delivery teams use Kanban to manage their product development. Tracker provides the flexibility to incorporate facets of that workflow through a number of settings tweaks (like changing the nature of point estimates or using labels and epics to mimic different story states). Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Monday, October 10, 2016 • Community

Case Study: TINT

With clients as diverse as Wimbledon, Krispy Kreme, and Bad Girls Club, TINT is reimagining how companies present their social media content. From their charming offices in San Francisco’s Mission district, we talked with CTO Nikhil Aitharaju about how the content-marketing platform got started, the evolution of social media, and getting their agile sea legs. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, May 18, 2016 • Productivity

Building a Great API: Lessons Learned from Working with Dozens of REST APIs

One of the most popular features of Bugsnag is the integrations with the other tools and services your team uses. The integrations with issue trackers, team notification, chat, and alerting tools provide information to your team on errors as they happen so they can take the necessary action to get them fixed. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, May 3, 2016 • Community

Case Study: ZOLA Electric

ZOLA Electric is on a mission to make distributed renewable energy accessible for all. They know that clean, affordable, reliable solar energy improves education, health, employment and environmental outcomes. We spoke with CIO Thor Muller about their logistics, challenges, and how Tracker helps with both. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, March 16, 2016 • Community

Case Study: Whole Whale

After spending his earlier years working client-side at nonprofits, George Weiner decided that he wanted to direct his time and talent toward helping nonprofits make the best use of technology to better achieve their aims. That led to the creation of Whole Whale. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, February 11, 2016 • Updates

iOS Update—Version 3.2 is Now in the App Store!

Our mobile team has been hard at work over the last months improving the Tracker iOS app, and we’re excited to release the latest update: version 3.2. Get it now in the App Store! Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, February 3, 2016 • Updates

Saved Search Improvements and Search Sharing

The new year is a good time to take stock of where you are, identify any issues holding you back, and make the necessary changes. To that end, we’ve made dotted lines with a Sharpie around minor problem areas in our interface and tightened them up to make them glow brighter than ever. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, January 26, 2016 • Community

Case Study: Humana

Humana knows a thing or two about transformation. From its inception in 1961 as a nursing home company, through its period owning and running hospitals in the seventies and early eighties, the company founded by David Jones and Wendell Cherry has made a habit of reinventing itself. Now they are in the midst of yet another reinvention—as a healthcare provider with a laser focus on their customers’ well-being. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Monday, November 16, 2015 • Updates

Android Update—Version 0.9

Since we first released the Android Alpha over the summer, we’ve been hard at work revising and improving it to stay on the path we outlined. And now we’re pleased to release Android v0.9, with a host of updates. Get it now! Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, November 11, 2015 • Productivity

Guidelines for Agile Development Using Tracker

When you’re bogged down working on your day-to-day chores and features, it can be tough to stay focused on the broader goal of smooth agile development. And while we don’t pretend that we have all the solutions, Tracker is, after all, designed to facilitate precisely that goal. Luckily, the time we’ve spent getting deep down and dirty with Tracker has allowed us to suss out the better agile practices from the. . .less better ones. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, September 17, 2015 • Integrations

How to Use Zapier to Integrate Pivotal Tracker with GitHub, Trello, Harvest, and More

On its own, Pivotal Tracker is a robust tool for collaboration and planning. When it has the opportunity to play well with other apps, however, it can really shine. Our friends at Zapier have made that linking process easy by putting together the definitive guide for integrating Pivotal Tracker with a variety of useful apps to create an even more powerful ecosystem. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Tuesday, August 25, 2015 • Updates

Android Version 0.8—Now with More Stories!

Back in July, on these very Interweb pages, we discussed the release of the Tracker Android Alpha. We explained our reasoning for putting out a less-than-fully-featured app, as well as—framed by a certain Talking Heads song reference—what the road map looked like for subsequent versions. At this point, get your camera and passport ready, because we’re ready to make the next stop on our journey: version 0.8 of the Android Alpha. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, July 22, 2015 • Updates

We’re on a Road to Somewhere—An Android App!

There are all sorts of universal truisms in life: the lure of the cold side of the pillow, the joy of an empty airplane row, the need to release your product’s app on both the iOS and Android platforms. On this last point, Tracker has succeeded at the iOS half of the equation, but lagged behind on the Android front. No longer! We’ve heard (and sympathized with) you, Android users, and we’re pleased to finally release our Android Alpha into the Google Play wild. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Thursday, June 4, 2015 • Updates

New Feature: Preventing Accidental Story Deletions

Throughout the course of history, humanity has learned to develop new and improved ways to correct or mitigate its mistakes. In 1770, the first widely available rubber eraser replaced the use of crustless bread to get rid of errant marks. In 1942, an Iowan farmer became the first person to exclaim “Argh! Do-over!” after mistakenly plowing over his recently planted crops [citation needed]. And now, continuing in that great tradition, Pivotal Tracker is introducing a new feature intended to prevent accidental multiple story deletion. Read more...