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Supercharge your team with focused, story-based collaboration. Quick agile adoption with a proven process.
Bottom Line
Pivotal Tracker is easy to use agile project management that assists in focused collaboration for software development teams. Every user shares the same knowledge base within a project enabling complete transparency. This allows users to proceed with work without having to constantly be reporting their progress, and team managers are able to easily assess the progress within their project.
Pivotal Tracker brings the enhanced communication of Clarizen and the functionality of Teamwork. If you are an agile software developer, you are likely to fall in love with the efficiency, simplicity, and user-friendliness of this app. For the rest of the world, this application does not offer as many perks as some of their competitors. I suggest taking a look at one of our top apps if you are not in the agile project management industry.
When you are first brought into the Pivotal Tracker workspace, you are provided with the option to create a new project or see a sample project. I always suggest choosing the sample project so you can get a feel for how the tool will look when it’s in full swing. You will then be shown the “most-used” areas in your space. After this, we suggest exploring around to see if their unique setup would benefit your team.
Standout features offered by Pivotal Tracker include a universal overview which allows everyone in the team to see a “managerial” perspective on the project, the open API is a welcome sight to most developers who will be spending the majority of their day using this software, and workflows that are optimized for estimating time to completion for all tasks and projects.
Pivotal Tracker can be used by large enterprise companies, but the tool is optimized for smaller groups within an organization. Project specific groups to be exact. This is reflected on their pricing page which is a bit different. See the pricing page below or at PivotalTracker.com.
Pros and cons
- Agile
- Open API
- Tracking and priority
- Intuitive design
- Universal view
- Mobile app
- Inflexibility
- Poor pricing structure
- Estimation inaccuracy
- Agile ONLY
- Odd terminology
- Lacking in features
Pricing
FREE
Up to 3 users
2GB storage
2 projects
Startup (small) – $12.50/month
5 collaborators
5 private projects
5GB storage
Startup (large) – $29.10/month
10 collaborators
10 private projects
25GB storage
Pro (small) – $62.50/month
15 collaborators
Unlimited private projects
Unlimited storage
Pro (medium) – $125.00/month
25 collaborators
Unlimited private projects
Unlimited storage
Pro (large) – $250.00/month
50 collaborators
Unlimited private projects
Unlimited storage
Enterprise – Contact Pivotal Tracker
Contact Info
- Email: Tracker@Pivotal.io
- Support Page: PivotalTracker.com/help
- Facebook Page: PivotalTracker
- Twitter: @PivotalTracker
FAQ
What integrations does the app offer?
- Google apps
- Campfire
- Web hooks
- JIRA
- Zendesk
What customer support options are offered?
- Documentation
- Training videos
What languages does App support?
Testimonials
Thor Muller - CIO at Off-Grid ElectricBob Young - CTO at Southwest Airlines
Patrick Rockwell
Founder, TaskReports.com
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I love Pivotal. Our development team was hesitant to adopt a brand new program like this, but we are so glad we did. Highly recommended for software companies!
We were looking for a more all-encompassing tool. Like Neha said, if you are a software team, this will likely work for you
Hot name in PM but not the best fit for our team. I think we are going with Asana
I have a team of 5 that needs a simple, easy to use tool. Any suggestions?
they’ve made agile development perfect!
At the end of the day, this is a strong tool if you are looking for a tool that everyone on your team can use.
We love Pivotal for dev, but our team is growing and our other departments dread spending another year on agile
Agreed. Great scrum/sprint management, however, my team is looking for a more hybrid or flexible methodology.
Pivotal Tracker has great features, however, I’m not too impressed by the UI. The screen can get crowded and extremely cluttered. We’re not a software company and this tool just seems too convoluted for us right now. Currently on here looking for a more easy to use customizable tool.
A good agile option
A great software for developers..other team members don’t like to use it.
We use pivotal tracker to handle development and design sprints at our web software startup.
Having visibility into which task is next in the queue and easily adjusting task priority when demands change is really helpful. It’s collaboration features are strong, its assignment tracking is very strong, and its reports are pretty good.
Great for dev teams
Great value for the cost! Having visibility into which task is next in the queue and easily adjusting task priority when demands change is really helpful. The description and comment sections are great to keep topics and discussions related to specific tasks all in one place. Being able to use markdown to format text is also really helpful and provides a lot of flexibility.For smaller teams and projects, the point estimate feature and much of the in-depth analytics hasn’t been that helpful for us in terms of making actionable decisions. With that said, for the right project and for large teams with many collaborators, I can see how these tools could be useful.
I used it to track my team’s project execution
Great for keeping track of team’s work that is commuted for a sprint and planning ahead future sprints. Need a way highlight design work and dev work independently and connect stories. Developing new features for our cloud platform and fixing bugs identified by users
More geared towards devs, our CS team has a hard time using the software
Helpful for tracking of bug fixes and story implementation
Try it out and make sure that your desired development workflow meshes with what PT does. Epics are clearly an afterthought and a second-class citizen in the world of Pivotal Tracker. If you’re not trying to use those as a primary entity, all good. If you are, you’ll be a little annoyed.
Agile tool
It’s a very focused product, and it’s very opinionated about how you should work. This is a good thing, for the most part, keeping Pivotal Tracker from being like the more feature-bloated offerings out there (e.g. Jira)