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Introducing: Lite Tracker for iOS 3.0! (Part 1)

We hope you’re sitting down, because this one’s a doozy of an update. In this post, we’ll take the wide-angle view of what you can expect in the iOS 3.0 update. In Part 2, we’ll zoom in to the finer points of the new features.

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Cycle Time Report—An Example Script Using Trackers API

Tracker’s API can provide information that’s not currently available through the Tracker web application. Read on to learn how to use the API to compute cycle time. Cycle time defined for Tracker Lean software development has given us some useful metrics to help identify problem areas in our

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Getting the Most Out of Tracker with Team Strength and Velocity Override

Being that we’re all human, sometimes things happen that might disrupt a project’s “normal” flow: we get sick, we take a vacation, we put in extra hours to make a deadline, etc. When life happens, it’s good to reflect that in Tracker so we can depict the

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Stuck Making a Tough Decision? Here’s How Three Readers Decided and Delighted Their Customers

Some choices in life are easy. Coffee or tea? Tea, please. But the choices you face as a software developer are a little harder. Jocelyn Goldfein, former Director of Engineering at Facebook, joined us on the second episode of FemgineerTV to talk about how to make smart tradeoffs in the

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Introducing the Tracker API Postman Collection

Postman is a rest API helper app that is available as a Chrome extension or as a packaged app. Postman lets you build HTTP requests piece by piece, and is particularly interesting to our testing team because it allows you to switch context quickly through the use of “environments.” Postman

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Weve Got New (Beta) Charts, and We Need Your Feedback

Tracker has just released its new (but still in beta) Charts to a limited number of customers. If you’re interested in checking out the new Charts for your projects, and are willing to send us feedback to help improve the design, please email our beta support. The new Tracker

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Collaborative Blogging Contest

We are excited to be sponsoring a $500 cash prize for the best Lite Tracker post submitted in AirPair’s $100K developer writing competition! AirPair has released cool features that allow authors and readers to collaborate on posts, just like normal code via forks and pull requests! Over the next

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Who Has Two Thumbs, Excels at Pair Programming, and Wants to Work with Us in Denver? Is it You?

At Lite Tracker, we’re trying to make life better for developers all over the world, one project at a time. Our philosophy is that a good tool helps you do your job and gets out of your way, allowing you to focus on what’s important. We’re looking

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Workspaces FTW

A workspace is a group of projects that you view all together on one page. Everything that you can do in an individual project—and then some—can be done in a workspace. You can estimate stories, plan iterations, attach documents, and accept or reject to your heart’s content.

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How We Manage Design Work in Lite Tracker

Long ago, way back in the early 2000s, Pivotal Labs was a growing Agile project management and engineering consultancy. Business was good, but organizing and visualizing project work was arduous. In response, Pivotal engineers created Lite Tracker, the project management tool we all know and love today. What was noticeably

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Working with Iterations in Tracker

If you’re new to Tracker (or Agile in general), our methodology might seem a bit strange at first, especially when it comes to the behavior of Tracker’s iterations (i.e., sprints) and how your stories move through them. Hopefully this will serve to answer any questions related to

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New Year, New Tracker, New Pricing

2015 is here, hopefully it’s off to a great start for you and your projects! It’s hard to believe, but Lite Tracker will be turning 10 this year. What started as an experimental internal tool at Pivotal Labs, a small consultancy in San Francisco at the time, grew

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Tracker Partnership with FemgineerTV

We’re very happy to announce that we are the exclusive sponsors of FemgineerTV, a series of webisodes geared towards tech professionals interested in entrepreneurship and leadership. Be sure to sign up now to get reminders for the show. We all look forward to your input so we can evolve

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Epic Tips for Epics

We’ve had epics out for quite some time now and I’d like to share some tips I’ve learned from teams at Pivotal Labs and Cloud Foundry. Prioritize your epics Just like stories, you should prioritize your epics. Is epic X more important than epic Y? Reorder your

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New Lite Tracker UI and API V5 Now Out of Beta!

There’s a fresh, newly redesigned Lite Tracker, with a ton of new features, optimized for growing teams. But you probably already know that, because most of you have been using it for months now! Thanks for all the great feedback, Tracker wouldn’t be what it is today without

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Google Drive and Sign-in Update

Now you don’t even need to sign in with Google to add Drive files to your stories. Clicking the new Drive icon in an expanded story will either use the Google identity you are currently signed in with or prompt you to sign in to Google. Then if you

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Attaching Google Docs for (Nearly) All!

As promised, we’ve added to what you can do when you sign in to Tracker with Google. Now, you don’t have to integrate Tracker with your Google Apps domain to be able to attach your Google Drive files to stories, after you next sign in via Google. When

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Tracker and the POODLE SSL Vulnerability

In response to the POODLE SSL vulnerability, we have removed SSL v3.0 support from Tracker. For the most part, this should not affect Tracker customers using the recent browsers we support. However, there may be some scripts, 3rd party tools or integrations using SSL v3.0 to access our

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New Navigation and More Workspaces

As we move ever closer to coming out of beta with the new Tracker UI, we’ve changed how you navigate Tracker in the header, making it consistent for everyone. Where’s my cheese? All the items in the header are click-able, and most have dropdowns with more options. For

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The Wonders of Workspaces

Visibility is a wonderful thing. Making your team’s work transparent lets every stakeholder judge current status and progress at a glance. This transparency also reveals impediments—is one story blocked by another? Is something holding up progress? Are some activities turning into bottlenecks? Seeing a snapshot of a team’

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A Guide to GitHub’s Service Hook for Tracker

GitHub’s service hook for Lite Tracker makes it easy to link your commits to Tracker stories. Setting up GitHub’s service hook Step 1. Decide which Tracker user’s API token you’d like to use for the service hook. Typically we advise to create a ‘pseudo’ user whose

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Tracker and Google Apps Update

For those of you who have integrated Tracker with your Google Apps domain, you are already attaching your Google docs to stories, and have been able to invite members of your domain to Tracker easily. Some of you just use Google sign in to get into Tracker with your gmail

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Recent Tracker Outages and Planned Stability Improvements

Lite Tracker is a critical tool for thousands of teams, and providing a stable, reliable service is vitally important for us. Uptime is typically in the proverbial “three nines” (99.95% for the first half of the year), but in the last few weeks we’ve experienced a number of

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Updated Dashboard, Now with Volatility!

We’ve released the first of a couple of updates to the dashboard, aiming for a cleaner, clearer view of your projects. In this update, as well as a fresh new look, subscribing to RSS feeds has moved and there’s the addition of each project’s volatility. Feed me!

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Introducing Annotations

Say farewell to time spent writing a long comment describing where something is wrong. Gone are the days of seeing a comment and wondering, “What?! I don’t see it.” Here(!) are the days of taking a screenshot, dropping a pin on it and appending a note to succinctly and