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Pivotal Tracker

Provides a proven agile project management tool for delivering better products

What is Pivotal Tracker?

It is a collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.
Pivotal Tracker is a tool in the Agile Project Management category of a tech stack.
Pivotal Tracker is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pivotal Tracker's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Pivotal Tracker?

Companies
233 companies reportedly use Pivotal Tracker in their tech stacks, including Twitter, Glovo, and Accenture.

Developers
387 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Pivotal Tracker.

Pivotal Tracker Integrations

Slack, Jira, New Relic, Sentry, and Datadog are some of the popular tools that integrate with Pivotal Tracker. Here's a list of all 68 tools that integrate with Pivotal Tracker.
Pros of Pivotal Tracker
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Agile
59
Easy to use
51
Nice UI
37
Scrum friendly
28
Simple estimation
23
Slack Integration
13
Velocity
10
Easy setup
9
Great support
7
It does the estimation better than we humans
3
Nice ios app
3
The right kind of simplicity
Decisions about Pivotal Tracker

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Pivotal Tracker in their tech stack.

Nasser Khan
Product Manager at StackShare · | 5 upvotes · 72.7K views

Over time, as our teams became bigger and projects became more complex, we started to take agile processes more seriously and wanted more advanced (by our standards) project management abilities, like burndown charts, velocity tracking, etc. We also wanted to handle a lot of content management tasks that were primarily done by non-technical teams but often touched engineering.

After using Pivotal Tracker and Wrike, JIRA ended up being the right choice for us. Its design was flexible enough to do engineering project management, content management and other tasks like product roadmapping effectively. It had all the bells and whistles we wanted (plus many more we never got around to using). Given that it is a flexible service that tries to do everything, it is ideal for a team that can 1) dedicate significant bandwidth to upfront setup and organization and 2) empower admins to establish and enforce best practices among team members.

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Pivotal Tracker's Features

  • Tracker Story- simple story editing and drag-and-drop prioritization
  • Velocity and Emergent Iterations- Tracker calculates future iterations automatically, based on historical performance.
  • Release and Scope Management- Completion dates are calculated automatically, based on velocity - your live measure of historical performance. See impact on scope as new stories are added immediately, and move stories around easily via drag and drop as priorities change.
  • Simple, Effective Workflow- Jump right into your project with a simple workflow that emphasizes rapid delivery and lots of feedback.
  • Feedback Loop- A Tracker story is only considered done when accepted by the project's customer. This creates a constant feedback loop, starting in the very first iteration
  • Focus on MVP- Focus on delivering stories and shipping working software often are tightly woven into the fabric of Tracker.
  • Visualize Progress- Keep an eye on your project with Tracker's built-in charts, including release burn-down, iteration burn-up, story type breakdown, and historical velocity.
  • Real-time Collaboration- virtual team room, story comments, attach mockups, organize stories by labels
  • iOS App- Your backlog, icebox, and other panels are all exactly where you'd expect from using the Pivotal Tracker website.

Pivotal Tracker Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Pivotal Tracker?
Jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.
Basecamp
Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages.
Asana
Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.
Shortcut
Shortcut combines a simple, modern UI with enterprise-grade tools, allowing technology companies to plan and manage their projects effectively, visualize progress across the organization, and define deadlines and milestones based upon data.
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
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Pivotal Tracker's Followers
415 developers follow Pivotal Tracker to keep up with related blogs and decisions.