Laura Fletcher • Wednesday, December 18, 2019 • Productivity

A Reluctant Evangelist: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love product vision

When I was first getting into product, I was pretty wary of the old saw that a product manager should be an evangelist for the product. Every time I would hear that, all I could imagine was some smarmy guy in a sparkly blazer yelling at crowds of people who didn’t want to listen to him. Not really my cup of tea Read more...

Candice Yono • Wednesday, November 20, 2019 • Productivity

Story Cycle Time Now Excludes Weekends!

The Tracker Team has been working on an exciting update that makes your team’s Story Cycle Time more representative of the work that your team is doing. This update is now live for all projects and applies to your past and future cycle times. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, August 26, 2019 • Productivity

Shorter Iterations are always best...and Other Lies you’ve been Told

The prevailing belief that shorter iterations are always better for all teams is a fallacy. While both shorter and longer iterations have their own benefits, the right choice for your team depends more on the product that your team is building and where it is in its lifecycle. Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, August 12, 2019 • Productivity

Measuring the Business Value of your Stories

Many agile teams have become obsessed with speed. How fast can we release? How fast can we close stories? How fast can we deliver to market? What too few fail to realize, however, is that none of this speed matters unless what the team is delivering is actually providing value to their organization. Read more...

Jakub Szyszka • Sunday, August 11, 2019 • Productivity

Time Tracking with TimeCamp - How to Boost your Productivity in Pivotal Tracker

If you provide hourly-charged services - then see how TimeCamp can, with just a few clicks, automatically measure the progress of your projects and generate timesheets and client invoices for you! Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Tuesday, July 30, 2019 • Productivity

What to do when Individuals are Unhappy in their own Teams...Or the Fallacy of Team Rotation

Even with all the benefits agile offers, some individuals may be unhappy or even feel trapped in their current team assignment. In fact, it may even seem as if we encounter this more after teams begin following an agile approach. However, there are actually two, very legitimate, reasons for this. Read more...

Kelly Nightengale • Thursday, July 25, 2019 • Productivity

Introducing new Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server Integrations

We are excited to announce our new Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server integrations so that your Bitbucket branches, commits, and pull requests can now be seen in Pivotal Tracker! Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, July 15, 2019 • Productivity

Getting Started With Agile: Putting Agile to Work for You

In this final installment for the Getting Started With Agile series, we’ll discuss concrete strategies for applying each of the values so you can put these ideas into play with your own team. Read more...

Kelly Nightengale • Tuesday, July 9, 2019 • Productivity

Summertime brings new SCM integrations

Tracker’s new Source Code Management integrations let you visualize your development progress within Tracker using your favorite SCM. Help keep your team up to date and move work forward together with our new suite of SCM integrations! Read more...

Jeremy Jarrell • Monday, July 1, 2019 • Productivity

Why Traditional Reports Don't Work In An Agile Environment

If you’ve ever worked on an agile project, then you’ve probably realized that the types of reporting that are beneficial to an agile team are very different than those that are beneficial to a traditional team. Read more...