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 • 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...

Lisa Crispin • Monday, April 27, 2015 • Productivity

Cycle Time Report—An Example Script Using Trackers API

Tracker’s API can provide information that’s not currently available through the Tracker web application. Read on to learn how to use the API to compute cycle time. Read more...

JoEllen Carter • Monday, April 6, 2015 • Updates

Introducing the Tracker API Postman Collection

Postman is a rest API helper app that is available as a Chrome extension or as a packaged app. Postman lets you build HTTP requests piece by piece, and is particularly interesting to our testing team because it allows you to switch context quickly through the use of “environments.” Postman also has some upgrades that can turn a simple API query into a powerful test that can run in several environments. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Tuesday, December 2, 2014 • Updates

New Pivotal Tracker UI and API V5 Now Out of Beta!

There’s a fresh, newly redesigned Pivotal Tracker, with a ton of new features, optimized for growing teams. But you probably already know that, because most of you have been using it for months now! Thanks for all the great feedback, Tracker wouldn’t be what it is today without such a passionate and involved user community. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Wednesday, October 15, 2014 • News

Tracker and the POODLE SSL Vulnerability

In response to the POODLE SSL vulnerability, we have removed SSL v3.0 support from Tracker. Read more...

Nathan Swain • Friday, September 26, 2014 • Productivity

A Guide to GitHub’s Service Hook for Tracker

GitHub’s service hook for Pivotal Tracker makes it easy to link your commits to Tracker stories. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Tuesday, June 17, 2014 • Updates

Manual Planning in Tracker’s UI and API

As promised here, we’ve replaced the old Commit Mode feature with a new way to manually plan your current iteration. It’s available now in both the original and beta versions of Tracker. Read more...

Joanne Webb • Thursday, May 15, 2014 • Updates

Commit Mode Update and API Changes

When a team begins a new project, it can take some time for their velocity to stabilize. Tracker’s “Commit Mode” enables scheduling more or fewer stories into the current iteration, sprint or cycle than Tracker would plan automatically. This manual control over the stories included in the current iteration was originally seen as a temporary planning need, so it has only been available on a per-iteration basis. Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Thursday, December 19, 2013 • Updates

Keeping Up with Updates to the New Pivotal Tracker API

The new Pivotal Tracker Developer API (V5) has been in public beta since the summer. Usage is growing fast, and we’re seeing some great new apps built against it. Check them out in the new App Bazaar! Read more...