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Help is Here!

We’ve always focused the bulk of our attention on making Tracker a straightforward—yet powerful—tool to help you deliver fine software. It’s grown into quite the precocious 10-year-old as a result though, and we felt it was about time to tackle Tracker’s 180 FAQ collection. We’

Case Study: ZOLA Electric

ZOLA Electric is on a mission to make distributed renewable energy accessible for all. They know that clean, affordable, reliable solar energy improves education, health, employment and environmental outcomes. ZOLA Electric is a for profit social enterprise because they recognise that responsible business is the best model to maximise the

Replace Owners and Requesters on Multiple Stories

There’s a brand-new addition to the Bulk Actions menu when you select multiple stories: people! From here, you can easily replace the requester or owners on a bunch of stories. Rather than opening every story to make the changes individually, you can now do it in one spot. As

How Customer PMs Helped Us Design Tracker Analytics v1

Of all of our customer requests, improved reporting and analytics is one of the most popular, consistently ranking near the top of the most requested features on our marketing and exit surveys. Until recently, we hadn’t taken the time to focus on improving our analytics. The biggest reason for

Collapsed Commits

Commit activity on a story can sometimes take over the conversation and make the activity stream unwieldy. No one likes to sift through seemingly endless commits to find what they need. To reduce the noise and the story length, we now collapse consecutive commits to show just the latest commit.

How Can Analytics Help You?

Now that Analytics are out of beta, you may be thinking, “Shiny! But how does this help me?” We’ll start to answer that by digging into some ways you can use the project Overview page to understand your team’s performance and identify areas for improvement. Here are some

Lite Tracker Analytics: Now Out of Beta!

It’s official! Lite Tracker’s new project Analytics features are now out of beta! As thousands of you have already discovered, Analytics bring a new level of visibility to your project and allows you to easily uncover bottlenecks and continuously improve your team’s performance. It’s a collection

Principles of Effective Story Writing: The Pivotal Labs Way

Different teams across projects and companies have different styles of story writing. Ultimately, it is up to you and the team to figure out what is most effective given the goals and context of the project. However, the core principles that guide our story writing here at Pivotal Labs can

Case Study: Whole Whale

After spending his earlier years working client-side at nonprofits, George Weiner decided that he wanted to direct his time and talent toward helping nonprofits make the best use of technology to better achieve their aims. That led to the creation of Whole Whale. “We’re a social impact tech company

Spring Cleaning: Finding Dead Code with istanbul.js

Many cultures have the ritual of spring cleaning, a deep clean to get areas that aren’t normally covered—scouring the oven, dusting the blinds, and getting rid of your old junk. At Lite Tracker, we decided to do a little spring cleaning in our code base to kick off