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    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

    Redmine

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ARedmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.

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    Community Pulse
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    VMware by Broadcom
    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. …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Features
    Pivotal TrackerRedmine
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Pivotal Tracker and Redmine
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Redmine
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Task Management3.01 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Resource Management3.01 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Scheduling7.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.01 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Email integration9.01 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.01 Ratings5.59 Ratings
    Search5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Pivotal Tracker and Redmine
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Redmine
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    DevOps Tool Integrations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Pivotal Tracker and Redmine
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    Redmine
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Pivotal TrackerRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    6.0
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    6.5
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    User Testimonials
    Pivotal TrackerRedmine
    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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    Open Source
    Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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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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    • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
    • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
    • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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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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    Open Source
    • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
    • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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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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    Open Source
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    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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    Open Source
    Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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    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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    Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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    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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    Open Source
    Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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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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    Open Source
    • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
    • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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