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More, Better, Faster—CSV Import/Export Now with Epics!

Though your stories look gorgeous in Tracker, exporting to CSV is a handy way to make a backup, share a different view of particular stories, do bulk updates, make a report, or create a project template. To make getting stories into and out of Tracker easier for you, we’ve

Updates

Annotations, Multiple Uploads, and Owners, Oh My!

We’re excited about the latest round of features in the iOS Tracker App! We think they’ll make you faster at giving feedback and we’ve removed some of the noise when navigating a story. Annotations A picture is worth a thousand words, and now you can add more!

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New in the Tracker Beta: Attack of the (Story) Clones!

It’s finally here: you can now make copies of your stories with one click story cloning! Break larger stories down more easily, create stories similar to existing ones, or use icebox stories with elaborate tasks as templates for new projects. This feature is only available in the Tracker beta,

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Manual Planning in Tracker’s UI and API

As promised here, we’ve replaced the old Commit Mode feature with a new way to manually plan your current iteration. It’s available now in both the original and beta versions of Tracker. If you choose not to use Tracker’s automatic planning feature, when you plan which stories

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Tracker iOS is Now Available in Japanese, German, and French

This is really exciting for us. Our first foray into localizing Lite Tracker. Our hope is to roll out more languages very soon for our iOS app. With regard to our main web app, that’s a little more complicated and it will take us a while longer to get

Integrations

Code Climate: Making Quality Part of Your Tracker Workflow

I was chatting with the folks over at Code Climate the other day about their integration with Tracker. We blushed when finding out Tracker was one of their first integrations and thought we should take a minute to share a little more info about it! Enter Kären from Code Climate.

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May 15th Outage: Post Mortem

Thursday, May 15th, at approximately 3:30pm Mountain Time, our customers experienced 45 minutes of unexpected downtime. The root cause of the problem was a misconfigured load balancer. A planned maintenance event increased the traffic load for a short period of time causing the misconfigured load balancer to behave poorly

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Commit Mode Update and API Changes

When a team begins a new project, it can take some time for their velocity to stabilize. Tracker’s “Commit Mode” enables scheduling more or fewer stories into the current iteration, sprint or cycle than Tracker would plan automatically. This manual control over the stories included in the current iteration

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Beta Update: Scrolling Improvements, Internet Explorer Support, and More

You know that reload message? Well it was worth clicking today as the Tracker beta UI has quite a few improvements, including removing the “Unsupported Browser” message for IE 10 and IE 11. There are still some minor issues, but we’ve completed a full pass of testing, and you

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Tracker iOS 7 App Now Available

You may be asking yourself, “Has something changed? Have you been working out? Did you cut your hair?”” The answer is Yes. Tracker has been redesigned for iOS 7. We’ve made many changes to the UI including: * Clean view of panels and stories * Redesigned story and epic editing * Improved

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Crunch Time—A Pivotal POV

To truly understand Tracker you need to appreciate how Labs does what is does. Onsi Fakhouri does a great job explaining just that. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post. CRUNCH TIME by Onsi Fakhouri It comes up on almost every consulting project I’ve worked on as a

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Lite Tracker and the Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability

A serious security vulnerability was recently uncovered: CVE–2014–0160, AKA “Heartbleed.“ The Lite Tracker team has worked with our hosting provider and determined that none of our externally exposed servers were affected by this vulnerability. Specifically, this vulnerability is known to exist in version 1.0.1 of the

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Beta Enabled for All Tracker Users, Plus Email Updates

Exciting news! All users now have access to the redesigned Lite Tracker, which includes an improved UI, multiproject workspace, cross-project search, in-app notifications and so much more. Read more about the Tracker Beta here. Activate the Beta as your default by clicking the Switch to Beta button toward the top-right

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Generative Testing

The Tracker Team spent the last week working on individual projects to improve the product. This post is the first in a series about what we did, and how it went. We at Tracker use TDD on a daily basis to make sure the code we write is correct. We

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Threaded Emails and Project Notification Muting

We’ve streamlined the way email notifications are sent from Tracker, reducing inbox noise and improving email readability. We’ve also given you more control over which notifications you see in-app and in email. Email improvements You can now view email notifications as threads of updates. In the past, Tracker

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Take Control of Your Lite Tracker Notifications

Email notifications allow you to stay connected with your project when away from Lite Tracker, and respond quickly when needed, for example to answer questions in story comments or accept delivered stories. On busy projects, though, the volume of notifications can be a little overwhelming. And with in-app notifications, introduced

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Tracker Beta Roadshow: Spring 2014

The next generation of Lite Tracker is now in public beta, rolling out to everyone gradually. If you’ve already had a chance to test drive it, we hope you like what you’ve seen so far! The beta is more than a visual update. We’re making Tracker easier

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Public Beta Starting for Redesigned New Lite Tracker

The rumors are true, there is a major redesign of Lite Tracker in the works, with a long list of new features. For those of you already using it as part of the private beta—thanks for all the feedback so far! Today, we’re excited to start a gradual

Integrations

Ramen: Partners in Heart and Mind

We’re thrilled that Ramen exists and couldn’t be more delighted that they asked us to be a core partner. How could we not support a company that used Tracker to help them crush it at the 11/2013 LAUNCH Hackathon and win first place. Besides being an obviously

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Bugs and Chores: To Estimate, or Not to Estimate?

Most of us prefer to spend our time developing new features for our customers. But we usually have some overhead in the form of bugs and chores that takes some of our time. Since Tracker started out life on greenfield projects, it has a default setting that bugs and chores

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A Healthier Approach to Estimating and Velocity

Tracker’s mission in life is to give teams an up-to-date snapshot of where they are and where they are headed. When we look at our project(s) in Tracker, we know for sure what we’ve done and what’s currently in progress. Tracker uses that information to help

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Keeping Up with Updates to the New Lite Tracker API

The new Lite Tracker Developer API (V5) has been in public beta since the summer. Usage is growing fast, and we’re seeing some great new apps built against it. Check them out in the new App Bazaar! Over the last few months the new API has evolved with bug

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Boolean Search in Tracker: And, Or, and More

To finish our recent round of Search updates, you can now refine searches, using AND, OR, a minus sign to exclude items, and use combinations of all search options in Tracker. Full details of all the ways you can search are in the FAQ, but here are a few examples:

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Volume Inc. on Tracker's New Identity and Website

How did this new Lite Tracker’s identity system and website come about, anyway? It started with the need for Tracker to align its image and messaging in order to better identify and distinguish the product’s role as the industry leader in project management software. Our process began with

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Oooh Shiny! New Logo, New Site, and New App Directory

Normally we wouldn’t make any noise about a simple facelift to our marketing site, but we’re making an exception in this case because we’ve done a little more than that. Besides the fact that we’ve made the marketing site more mobile friendly and aligned it visually