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New in Lite Tracker: Story Following and User @mentions

It’s now even easier to collaborate with your teammates and keep the right people up to date. We’re very excited to announce Tracker story following and @mentioning! Get people’s attention with @mentions Ever wanted to include someone on epic comments or a story discussion, even if they’

The Lite Tracker Rewrite and Improved Story Linking

If you’re a long-time Lite Tracker user, you’ve probably noticed that for the last year or so, things have been fairly quiet in terms of new features. That’s because we spent that time on a complete, but focused rewrite of the core of the Tracker web application,

Tracking Nairobi Dev Camp

On the Tracker team, I love hearing great stories about our users and the things they are able to accomplish using agile methodologies and collaboration. I’m also a woman in tech and have a keen interest in supporting other women as well as other diverse groups who work persistently

Remote Control

Most people who have worked remote will agree—nay—commiserate on how hard it is. I’ve done it before, and while it never really gets easier, you learn to get used to it. One of the most glorious and unfortunate things about the internet is immediate access to distributed

Seize Your Lite Tracker @username!

We’re about to introduce improvements to Lite Tracker which will help your team communicate more effectively. In order to do this, we’ll be making your (currently optional) Tracker username a requirement. If you don’t have a username, we’ll create one for you based on your name

Tracker Ecosystem: Member Tracker

“I’ve been looking for a couple months for the right third-party tools, and couldn’t find them, so I decided to make my own,” said Brian Noah from eGood. We love and admire that initiative in our users, especially when they build something this cool. The app he had

Gansen and Kunesh on Agile Development in the Obama 2012 Campaign

The Obama 2012 campaign has been hailed as the most tech-savvy and data-driven to date, a sophisticated operation led by CTO Harper Reed. Reed had no problem finding developers eager to join the campaign—the challenge was finding people up for the formidable task before them. A Presidential campaign poses

Monday's Tracker Outage, New Status Page

This week started on the wrong foot with a 1 hour and 45 minute outage early Monday morning, that affected many of you. I’d like to apologize for this, and shed some light on what happened. It began as a network outage at our hosting provider’s data center,

Making Testing Visible in the Tracker Workflow

As a feature story progresses through the Tracker workflow, a lot of testing activities are also underway. Team members are collaborating to turn examples of desired behaviors into business-facing tests that guide development. Testers are performing manual exploratory testing on stories as they are delivered. Performance or security testing may

Why Are All the Stories in Lite Tracker Missing Descriptions?

I asked this to my pair on my first day here at Pivotal. “That’s on purpose. A user story is a promise to have a conversation. When we start a story, we’ll have a discussion with the client to fill in the details.” “Ok. So we’ll just