A Day in the Life: Testing on the Tracker Team

The Tracker team as a whole takes responsibility for building in quality and making sure that necessary testing activities are done along with other development tasks. But we testers bring our own special value to the party, and we’re seeking another great tester to help us as we work

Saved Search Improvements and Search Sharing

The new year is a good time to take stock of where you are, identify any issues holding you back, and make the necessary changes. To that end, we’ve made dotted lines with a Sharpie around minor problem areas in our interface and tightened them up to make them

Case Study: Humana

Humana knows a thing or two about transformation. From its inception in 1961 as a nursing home company, through its period owning and running hospitals in the seventies and early eighties, the company founded by David Jones and Wendell Cherry has made a habit of reinventing itself. Now they are

Changes to the Lite Tracker Web Services Agreement

We’ve changed the Lite Tracker Web Services Agreement. The updated version includes clauses for the Apple App Store, as well as new language that covers use of all Tracker applications, including web, iOS, and Android. Here is a detailed list of the changes: * The Lite Tracker iOS and Android

Tracker Analytics—Now in Public Beta!

Tracker has always focused on facilitating collaboration and transparency at the story level, but it hasn’t always been easy to see the big picture or interesting/worrying trends in your projects. In other words, there are plentiful trees, but no forest. With our new Analytics beta, we’re ready

Performance Improvements, New Features, and a Peek at the Road Ahead

If you’re among the folks who have been wondering whether we’ve been trapped under a rock or lost the source code to Tracker, fear not! We are alive and well, and our coding fingers are in fine shape. Many of our efforts over the last few months have

Android Update—Version 0.9

Since we first released the Android Alpha over the summer, we’ve been hard at work revising and improving it to stay on the path we outlined. And now we’re pleased to release Android v0.9, with a host of updates. Get it now! * We removed the Everything panel

Guidelines for Agile Development Using Tracker

When you’re bogged down working on your day-to-day chores and features, it can be tough to stay focused on the broader goal of smooth agile development. And while we don’t pretend that we have all the solutions, Tracker is, after all, designed to facilitate precisely that goal. Luckily,

One Weird Trick to Switch from Polling to Push—with Zero Downtime!

Lite Tracker is an always-up-to-date tool that you leave open all day. When Tracker was young, the only way to accomplish that was some variation of HTTP polling. But the web has evolved since then, and so have the protocols. Websockets are supported by every major browser, and server-sent events

How to Use Zapier to Integrate Lite Tracker with GitHub, Trello, Harvest, and More

On its own, Lite Tracker is a robust tool for collaboration and planning. When it has the opportunity to play well with other apps, however, it can really shine. Our friends at Zapier have made that linking process easy by putting together the definitive guide for integrating Lite Tracker with