Comments on: Pivotal Tracker – Closest to Agile

By: Wildbit » Pivotal Tracker – Closest to Agile - Thoughts on … « Site Super Tracker

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:29:45 +0000

[...] Today found this great post, here is a quick excerpt : Pivotal Tracker is task oriented. Everything you need to see in Pivotal Tracker is related to tasks (releases, comments, backlog, current tasks) and can be seen in task lists named current, backlog, icebox etc. … Read the rest of this great post Here [...]

By: Igor Baloš

Igor Baloš — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:06:23 +0000

Hi,

thanks, for searching related articles, try by clicking the name of members of the team. For example, mine will take you to QA topics:

http://www.wildbit.com/blog/category/quality-assurance/

Igor

By: Viv

Viv — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:44:00 +0000

This is really useful as id love to stick with lovely basecamp but think theres probably too much missing. Just one thing, its not easy to navigate to the other related blog posts from here. Would be good to flick through the other related reviews.

By: Igor Baloš

Igor Baloš — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:56:25 +0000

Hi Martin,

we have been using ActiveCollab before we have switched to Basecamp. So the ActiveCollab did not work for us. Basecamp has similar functionality with no tags, but we have found it much more easier to use.

Though it has some glitches I think Basecamp is better solution, though almost a year has passed since we have tried ActiveCollab.

We are trying Lighthouse at the moment, which looks promising.

By: Martín

Martín — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:50:27 +0000

Hi Igor,

We have started to use ActiveCollab for our project management. It is rather similar to Basecamp (thought less friendly), but it adds some cool features such as ticket management. You can create tickets, add taks to them, categorize and prioritize them, assign responsables and link them to milestones. Plus tags, Plus comments.

Everything else: like Basecamp, no as cute.

Can you give me your opinion?

By: Igor Balos

Igor Balos — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:46:40 +0000

Hi,

thanks Robert, we will check out TeamSupport too.

After spending some time with Pivotal Tracker, we think we need to keep on searching.

Although there are really nice features and I thought we could get used to UI, it’s too complex to use for us.

By: Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:19:57 +0000

Igor – Please check out TeamSupport.com.

TeamSupport is not just an issue tracking system – It is designed to integrate customer service product, management, qa, and of course development as well.

Of course, TeamSupport integrates natively with BeanStalk so you can tie commits to a specific ticket as well!

By: Krasio

Krasio — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:24:00 +0000

FYI,
I just saw that there’s new feature in Pivotal Tracker called story tasks. It looks very similar to To-Do lists in Basecamp – http://pivotallabs.com/users/dan/blog/articles/965-story-tasks-in-pivotal-tracker

By: Igor Baloš

Igor Baloš — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:45:03 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the comments, we will check out suggested applications.

By: Biljana Pesevska

Biljana Pesevska — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:51:08 +0000

Hi Igor,
I hope you will find the perfect project management tool for your organization.
In your reviewing process I will recommend that you include http://www.projectoffice.net. It more or less has the features you are looking for.
Since it is my company’s product, you can ask me for any questions you my have. :-)

Biljana

By: Coen Meerbeek

Coen Meerbeek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:54:36 +0000

Wildbit,

Interesting post you got here.
We had the same problem. Also using SCRUM and in search for a good management system.
We researched other tools and compared 10 tools putting them against our requirements and ranked them.
The result was 3 tools that were really good (VersionOne, TargetProcess2 and TeamworksPM)
We did a proof of concept with all three tools and in the end TargetProcess2 fitted the best.
TargetProcess2 is free till 6 users and is very easy to customize.
It has SubVersion integration, development is going strong, very quick responses from the developers. All in all we are very happy with this solution. Check it out!

Good luck with your search!

By: Krasio

Krasio — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:14:38 +0000

Hi, there is a tool called Scrum’d (http://scrumd.com), that looks like very similar to Pivotal Tracker (but I’ve never tried it).

By: Dan Podsedly

Dan Podsedly — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:14:00 +0000

Hi Igor…thanks for the review. One thing to note, it is possible to be emailed about all comments posted to the projects you’re a member of, by changing notification preferences on the My Profile page. Also, being able to reply to comment emails is a feature in our backlog, hopefully we’ll get to it fairly soon.