Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pivotal Tracker	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Pivotal Tracker is a project management program primarily for software developers. It is built from the ground up to facilitate the agile development cycle, and is optimized for structuring projects in sprints, or “stories.” The solution is now owned and supported by VMware, and is part of the Pivotal / Tanzu product line up.	N/A

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	Pivotal Tracker
Considered Both Products	Pivotal Tracker Verified User Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker Jira is very user friendly. It's ideal for people new to the software development lifecycle and the tracking of the work. They have simply nailed the intuitiveness. Pivotal Tracker might be the better long-term tool because of the flexibility that comes with it. But as … Incentivized Helpful? Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development Chose Pivotal Tracker I have used a number of systems like Pivotal Tracker over the last 15 years. I have had several occasions to use Wrike separate from and alongside Pivotal Tracker. Wrike was more difficult to use and seems to either be locked down by permissions, so I had to "fight" to do my … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker The only thing that PT compares to is Salesforce and we now utilize both platforms - Salesforce is a bit more organized in its automated task flow and allows us to connect our other platforms to it for efficient data transfer and data consistency. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Henderson Co-Founder Chose Pivotal Tracker I haven't used dev-specific tools other than Pivotal Tracker but it's useful because it is built for a specific use case. The simplicity of an Asana or Trello is great and they have their advantages, but the additional functionality mentioned was worthwhile and a compelling … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pivotal Tracker It's not necessarily a matter of better vs. worse when it comes to all of these different tools. They all serve a different purpose to different sized teams. I found Pivotal Tracker and monday.com to be a matter of preference while serving a similar purpose. Good for smaller … Incentivized Helpful? JP Juan Palma Software Development Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker keeps users 'close' to the software project(s) by allowing users to understand, in plain words, the tasks and expectations of each software release, whereas other tools are either way too close to the source code or require an extensive amount of maintenance. … Incentivized Helpful? BP Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker JIRA allows teams to tailor the application workflow to meet their needs, while "opinionated" Pivotal Tracker enforces a consistent workflow approach on all team members. While I, personally, may prefer to have a system configured to my particular habits and desires as a … Incentivized Helpful? Willian Molinari Backend Engineer Chose Pivotal Tracker We selected Pivotal Tracker because it is highly opinionated about the process. It worked quite well for what we were expecting from it. Other software we tried were much more flexible, so we could implement our own process there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Program Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker, Asana and Trello all have free versions making them ideal for smaller companies to try out. All of them blast Kannan boards and issue tracking capabilities. While Trello and Asana are great products in themselves, Pivotal Tracker edges them out with its wealth … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Barretto CTO Chose Pivotal Tracker I've used JIRA ages ago, and it was still a young product in its initial iterations. The UI was a clunky and was missing a lot of ease with drag and drop for individual stories, uploads, etc. Management of users was useable, but not as ideal as it could be. Incentivized Helpful? Craig Comperatore Project Manager II Chose Pivotal Tracker We selected Pivotal Tracker because of its simple, elegant workflow. This is the ideal; it's where we want to be. So we continue to improve, and as we get better, we get more out of the software. The other software products we evaluated were too complex, and we found that … Incentivized Helpful? Sergio Iacobucci Product Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker I wasn't part of the selection process. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Dunk Director of Technology Chose Pivotal Tracker We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Schneider Chief Operating Officer Chose Pivotal Tracker We were using JIRA and found it lacking in their UI and some of their services, especially communication. PT communicates much easier with simple links to tasks for execution and QA review. Basecamp is just really a super note taking and asset depot. I would not consider true … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Taylor Senior Drupal Developer Chose Pivotal Tracker Compared to other task management tools, Pivotal Tracker has the best blend of functionality and cost. When you need something simpler than JIRA, and not solely focused on code or UI related tasks like BugHerd, and have a more direct approach to completing tasks than Trello - I … Incentivized Helpful? BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker, for better or worse, provides a more structured and rigid workflow than most. That makes it easy to get started, but if you have your own workflow you want to integrate into it, it could mean it'll take longer to get used to or customize. It's still more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Pivotal Tracker Our team has evaluated Basecamp, Trello, and others but overall preferred the simple and flexible layout of Pivotal Tracker. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pivotal Tracker Our organization actually does not exclusively use Pivotal. We also have teams on solutions like Trello and LeanKit. It's all preference, those who buy into all the agile features that pivotal provides, love it. Those who do not need all the overhead, simply use a different … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Pivotal Tracker I used to be a huge JIRA fan, until I realized how much time I was spending fixing complicated custom workflows and statuses. I spend almost no time administering Pivotal Tracking. And it turns out, those complicated, custom workflows weren't helping us anyway. Incentivized Helpful? Wesley Wong Senior Product Manager - Mobile Chose Pivotal Tracker Overall I have found that I prefer using Pivotal over all the competitors I've tried. There are certain aspects of the other products which I do like but as a whole Pivotal does a better job. My one request is that I feel it is very much a web app and the other products have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker Rally is too complicated - there are far too many fields that all have the same meaning. It's a better agile tool in my opinion since it it was designed purely as an agile tool, but since the CA technologies acquisition, the tool has become more complicated and there are far … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Barnett JavaScript Developer Chose Pivotal Tracker Compared to Rally the tool seems more accessible because or the suite of apps available. It also feels more polished and stable than Rally. It definitely has more tools and features but again it can be overkill for a smaller team or project. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker I have also used Trello and JIRA. A small company with only a couple of projects may be best suited with Trello due to its cost and simplicity, whereas JIRA may be better suited for a large company that can afford a dedicated JIRA manager, due to its complex configurations and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Pivotal Tracker JIRA is very complex, while tracker is more straightforward to use. Tracker requires less micromanagement and upkeep. Asana is pretty but not useful for product and engineering build. It is more geared towards design projects. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Project management Pro Team members Pro Keep track
Top Cons	Minus Little difficult Minus Learning curve Minus User friendly

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User Ratings
	Pivotal Tracker
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (9 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Pivotal Tracker
Likelihood to Recommend	VMware by Broadcom The UI of the Pivotal tracker is really beautiful and amazing, which looks trivial, but we have it open all the time, so it's nice for us. In Pivotal tracker for me its very Easy to create tasks or stories anytime without facing any problems. Pivotal tracker provides us a ton of features to track the tasks and manage a team and the projects. Pivotal tracker allows for a entire team to be on the same page of the tool in regards to where is the project right now, right status of every task, what is being worked on and by whom. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	VMware by Broadcom It's great for tracking milestones and reporting team velocity per sprint. Maintaining a prioritized backlog that is sharable with different members of your team is relatively simple. There's a free version of the product for up to 3 collaborators working on 2 projects and the starting price for larger packages is relatively low. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	VMware by Broadcom In-story task management is still a weak point. The ability to @mention users in tasks and mark tasks as 'in-progress' would go a long way. Epics do not span projects. This becomes troublesome when scaling Pivotal Tracker's agile methodology to multiple teams. Splitting stories is often confusing for team members as there is no concept of a 'parent' story with child stories that have split off of it. There are only two levels: Epic & Story. Incentivized Craig Comperatore Project Manager II Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	VMware by Broadcom I love the simplicity, non-configurability, and price/performance of this tool. Hands down my favorite project management tool for agile. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	VMware by Broadcom It works good enough. I didn't have many problems with that. The user interface is a bit confusing though. The team took some time to understand where some configurations were. Incentivized Willian Molinari Backend Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	VMware by Broadcom We've never had to request support in the 5 years I have been using it. A solid solution! Everything I have had questions about is on the website. New features are in their newsletter with more details on their website. Often I am using the new features within a few minutes of reading the article. Incentivized Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development Read full review
Alternatives Considered	VMware by Broadcom We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a full set up of a project tracker. Thankfully Pivotal is a predefined solution with no configuration needed. Simply input your projects, design your Stories with Tasks and begin your tracking. Incentivized Brian Dunk Director of Technology Read full review
Return on Investment	VMware by Broadcom Time is money with development and a lot of things can fall through the cracks. Having a good system for making sure you're building the most relevant product for customers is really important so it was well worth it for us. The process we used worked for us and it helped us streamline our development which reduced a lot of things falling through the cracks and headaches. I'm sure there are other products that can do the same job just as effectively but Pivotal Tracker worked well for us. Incentivized Brad Henderson Co-Founder Read full review
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