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Announcing Lite Tracker for iOS v1.5

Today we released the latest Lite Tracker iOS app to the App Store. This is a major release that includes support for creating attachments, dynamic iteration calculation, and significant performance enhancements. We have also dropped support for iOS 4.x, which less than half of one-percent of our users have

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New in Lite Tracker: Full-Page Stories!

One of the goals of Lite Tracker is to give everyone on your team the same view of your project, and allow people to work with individual stories but without losing sight of the big picture. Some stories, though, and especially epics, can accumulate quite a bit content, including comments,

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Introducing Epics: They’re Like Stories, but Bigger

We’re proud to introduce a brand new feature to Lite Tracker: epics. Epics are a powerful management tool providing teams with big-picture detail. It sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s what epics offer—the ability to zoom out and zoom in at the same time. Now you can

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Updates to the Lite Tracker Story Redesign

Last week, we launched a complete redesign of stories, as part of our ongoing effort to make Tracker easier and more enjoyable to use. We’ve received a great amount of feedback about what’s working well in the new design, as well as what could be improved. As a

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New in Lite Tracker: Improved Stories!

Stories in Lite Tracker have been given a serious upgrade. For the most part it’s all pretty self explanatory—the functionality you’re used to is all there, just in a format that’s more intuitive, user friendly and hopefully you’ll agree, more appealing. Our advice, play with

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Lite Tracker API V2 to be Removed on Jan 27

We’re working on a new version of the Lite Tracker developer API, with a long list of improvements. The release of this is a few months away, but to prepare for it, we’re removing the old version (V2) of the API. This change (removal of V2) is tentatively

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New in Lite Tracker for iOS: Search, My Work, and New iPhone Interface

Version 1.1 of the Lite Tracker for iOS app is now available in the iTunes App Store. This update adds the Search and My Work panels, a redesigned iPhone interface, and many overall usability improvements. All the details after the jump, below. Search and My Work You can now

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Lite Tracker for iOS Update Now in the App Store

An update of Lite Tracker for iOS (released last week) is now available in the iTunes App Store. It includes a number of stability fixes, including better handling of local data store corruption, and the app should no longer crash when opening a project with no stories in the icebox.

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New in Lite Tracker: Auto-Suggest for Labels and Improved Google Sign-in

In this week’s update to Lite Tracker, we’ve made it easier to apply and remove labels to/from stories, with a new auto-suggest and click-to-remove widget. We’ve also made the Google Accounts sign-in integration more flexible. Easier Adding/Removing of Labels Labels in Tracker allow you to

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Lite Tracker—Now Officially on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch!

We’re excited to announce the release of Lite Tracker for iOS, the officially supported Lite Tracker app for the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch! You may find Lite Tracker for iOS to be familiar—it’s based on the popular TrackerBot, which Pivotal Labs recently acquired from Vulpine

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New in Lite Tracker: Multi-Story Select, Drag/Drop, and iPad Usability Improvements

Happy Friday! We’ve just rolled out some changes to Lite Tracker, which we’re hoping will have a very noticeable impact on usability, especially for those of you who manage large projects. You can now select multiple stories with a few clicks, using shift-click, and drag them together to

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New in Lite Tracker: Stay Signed in Across Browsers, All HTTPS, and Third-Party Tools RSS Feed

As we blogged about last week, all pages in Tracker that require you to sign in are now served exclusively over secure HTTPS. As part of this update, we’ve also improved how “remembered” sessions work. Select the remember me checkbox on the signin page, and you’ll stay signed

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Lite Tracker Analytics: Measure Your Development Process and Win an iPad!

GoodData, provider of an on-demand, cloud-based business intelligence platform, has just launched Lite Tracker Analytics, a brand-new application to help you measure your agile development process. Powered by the GoodData cloud BI platform, Lite Tracker Analytics allows you to analyze your stories, burndown of the backlog and icebox, as well

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New in Lite Tracker: Custom Point Scales

You can now create custom point scales for your Lite Tracker projects. This is one of our most commonly requested features, especially from teams that practice, and/or use the planning poker form of estimation. The default point scales of 1/2/3, 1/2/4/8, and 1/2/

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New in Lite Tracker: Story Tasks Now Draggable and Enabled by Default

We’ve made a few improvements to how story tasks work in Lite Tracker. They’re now turned on by default for all new projects, they can be added to a new story before it’s saved, and you can drag them to rearrange their order. If you haven’t

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New in Lite Tracker: Expanding Text Fields, Multiple Files, and Drag/Drop File Uploads

We’ve made a few usability improvements to Lite Tracker related to viewing and editing of stories, as well as file attachment handling. All of the story text fields now automatically expand based on the amount of text entered, and they’ll grow as you type. When you expand a

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New in Tracker: Story Assignment Notification and API Additions

We’ve added a new email notification to Lite Tracker which will let you know when someone assigns a story to you. There are also a few new additions to the API, related to projects and iterations. Story Assignment Notification In the typical Tracker workflow, stories stay unassigned as they

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Public Projects Directory and Feed Coming to Tracker

We’re launching a new public projects directory in Lite Tracker this Friday. If you own or use public projects in Tracker, continue reading, as these projects are about to get much easier to discover. This new directory, linked to from the Lite Tracker front page, will show a featured

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Changes to Lite Tracker Pricing

Last week, we announced that we’re introducing pricing for Lite Tracker. Since then, we’ve received a great deal of thoughtful and constructive feedback, and we’re very grateful that the majority of you have shown support of Tracker’s move to be a paid product. We really appreciate

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Introducing Lite Tracker Pricing

NOTE: This article has been updated with pricing changes announced on Jan. 28. First, we’d like to thank all Lite Tracker users. We couldn’t be more grateful for all of the support and feedback we’ve received from you. Today, we’re introducing pricing for Tracker. All of

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New in Lite Tracker: Bugzilla Integration and More

Happy New Year! Lite Tracker has some updates for the new year: we’ve added a built-in integration with Bugzilla, a popular bug tracking tool, redesigned the My Projects page to make it easier to use, and made the Zendesk integration more flexible. More details on all of this below.

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New in Tracker: Updated Look and Google Accounts Sign-in

The Tracker team has been busy since the hosting move last month. We’ve shifted our focus from improving Tracker’s performance and stability, to core product enhancement. This update introduces an updated visual design, as well the first wave of usability improvements. We’ve also added some new features,

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Tracker and Session Hijacking

Last week a certain new Firefox extension made headlines by making it trivial to hijack sessions over wireless networks, and easily access unsuspecting users’ accounts on a long list of major social networking and other websites. Lite Tracker had the dubious honor of being on that list. The plugin author’

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New Account Management Features in Lite Tracker

We’re introduced new features in Lite Tracker to help with account management. Accounts tend to stay out of the way for most people, but they can be essential for larger companies, especially consulting companies like ours. They allow users to separate their personal, open source, and company projects, for

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GitHub Service Hook for Lite Tracker

With GitHub’s help, we’ve added Lite Tracker to the list of GitHub’s built in service hooks, making it easier to tie commits to Tracker stories. To set it up, go to the Repository Administration section of your GitHub repo, click on Service Hooks on the left, and