At Pivotal Labs, we like to keep our Tracker stories as small as possible, so that each story describes a single, concrete feature that delivers incremental value to our project’s customer. With small stories, there is rarely a need to break things down further, but sometimes it’s still

I’ve been wanting to use Lite Tracker on my iPhone, so I wrote a little proof of concept using the Tracker API. I thought that a native application would be much more difficult than a skinned web application using ActiveResource. I tried out Dashcode, Apple’s recommended iPhone-compatible front-end

The scene: Pivotal NYC. Jeff Dean walks up to Dan Podsedly, manager of Lite Tracker development. Jeff: Hey Dan, you asked what features we wanted in Tracker. How about a way to automatically mark all my Finished stories as Delivered, all at once? Dan: (with a sly smile) Well, we

Michael Buffington has posted the first of a what will hopefully be a series of tours on Lite Tracker, this one about how Michael uses Tracker as a personal GTD-style task manager. If you haven’t heard of GTD, it stands for “Getting Things Done,” a work-life action management method

Great article comparing Lite Tracker to Mingle, as an example of a tool that simplifies things, rather than trying to manage complexity “and getting in the way.” Agile Tool Vendors: Please don’t try to manage complexity—simplify my life! Thanks for the positive feedback, Matthias! Originally published here. Originally