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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pivotal Tracker

    Score5 out of 10
    N/APivotal 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

    ProjectManager

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AProjectManager is a cloud-based project management software. Features include file storage, client logins, unlimited projects and integration with Google Apps, Microsoft Word, Excel and Project.

    $18

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Pivotal TrackerProjectManager
    Editions & Modules
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    Team
    $18
    per month per user
    Business
    $32
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pivotal TrackerProjectManager
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    Pivotal TrackerProjectManager
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Pivotal Tracker and ProjectManager
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    ProjectManager
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Task Management3.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Resource Management3.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Scheduling7.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Email integration9.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Search5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Pivotal Tracker and ProjectManager
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ProjectManager
    -
    Ratings
    DevOps Tool Integrations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Pivotal TrackerProjectManager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Pivotal TrackerProjectManager
    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    Because I work with many people for whom Project Management is new, I wanted to use software that was user-friendly, fairly intuitive, and not filled with jargon. I like the fact I can use existing templates that (mostly) work for our needs, and I look forward to more things being added. They say support is 72 hours, but I’ve never waited for more than a few.
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    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    • Creating job schedules and milestones, which we provide to our clients as well as our vendors.
    • A one stop shop for downloading/uploading any job/site specific documents (issues, daily reports, photos, signoffs, etc.).
    • Real time communication with your clients. As soon as an issue has been raised within ProjectManager.com, everyone attached to that job with get an email notification of what has been communicated or what document has been uploaded.
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    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    • hope for expanded offerings. They seem to be in the works.
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    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    VMware by Broadcom
    It was generally easy to use once you got the hang of it. The searching and tagging of tickets was fine, commenting worked well, and release planning was good. However, it wasn't the most intuitive tool in the beginning. The UI is pretty outdated and could have used upgrades over time.
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    ProjectManager.com
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    We have not used any other project management software since using ProjectManager.com.
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    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.
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    ProjectManager.com
    • less time spent “looking for things” it’s all there.
    • Having all the deliverables and timelines together has been great.
    • I don’t have the version with employee time tracking, but we are considering the upgrade.
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    ScreenShots

    ProjectManager Screenshots

    Screenshot of the project dashboardScreenshot of project reportingScreenshot of a Gantt chartScreenshot of a task list viewScreenshot of a Kanban board with a task card moving between columnsScreenshot of the risk management interface, with built-in RAID log