Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pivotal Tracker	Score7.2 out of 10	N/A	Pivotal Tracker is a project management program primarily for software developers. It is built from the ground up to facilitate the agile development cycle, and is optimized for structuring projects in sprints, or “stories.” The solution is now owned and supported by VMware, and is part of the Pivotal / Tanzu product line up.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	VMware by Broadcom Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker Jira is very user friendly. It's ideal for people new to the software development lifecycle and the tracking of the work. They have simply nailed the intuitiveness. Pivotal Tracker might be the better long-term tool because of the flexibility that comes with it. But as … Incentivized Helpful? Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development in Information Technology at Dark Horse Comics (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker I have used a number of systems like Pivotal Tracker over the last 15 years. I have had several occasions to use Wrike separate from and alongside Pivotal Tracker. Wrike was more difficult to use and seems to either be locked down by permissions, so I had to "fight" to do my … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker The only thing that PT compares to is Salesforce and we now utilize both platforms - Salesforce is a bit more organized in its automated task flow and allows us to connect our other platforms to it for efficient data transfer and data consistency. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Henderson Co-Founder at Droplii (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker I haven't used dev-specific tools other than Pivotal Tracker but it's useful because it is built for a specific use case. The simplicity of an Asana or Trello is great and they have their advantages, but the additional functionality mentioned was worthwhile and a compelling … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker It's not necessarily a matter of better vs. worse when it comes to all of these different tools. They all serve a different purpose to different sized teams. I found Pivotal Tracker and monday.com to be a matter of preference while serving a similar purpose. Good for smaller … Incentivized Helpful? Juan Palma Software Development Manager in Engineering at Ventus Wireless (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker keeps users 'close' to the software project(s) by allowing users to understand, in plain words, the tasks and expectations of each software release, whereas other tools are either way too close to the source code or require an extensive amount of maintenance. … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager in Information Technology at California State University, Northridge (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker JIRA allows teams to tailor the application workflow to meet their needs, while "opinionated" Pivotal Tracker enforces a consistent workflow approach on all team members. While I, personally, may prefer to have a system configured to my particular habits and desires as a … Incentivized Helpful? Willian Molinari Backend Engineer in Information Technology at Doist (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker We selected Pivotal Tracker because it is highly opinionated about the process. It worked quite well for what we were expecting from it. Other software we tried were much more flexible, so we could implement our own process there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker, Asana and Trello all have free versions making them ideal for smaller companies to try out. All of them blast Kannan boards and issue tracking capabilities. While Trello and Asana are great products in themselves, Pivotal Tracker edges them out with its wealth … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Barretto CTO in Engineering at Cureus (Publishing, 1-10 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker I've used JIRA ages ago, and it was still a young product in its initial iterations. The UI was a clunky and was missing a lot of ease with drag and drop for individual stories, uploads, etc. Management of users was useable, but not as ideal as it could be. Incentivized Helpful? Craig Comperatore Project Manager II in Research & Development at Moffitt Cancer Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker We selected Pivotal Tracker because of its simple, elegant workflow. This is the ideal; it's where we want to be. So we continue to improve, and as we get better, we get more out of the software. The other software products we evaluated were too complex, and we found that … Incentivized Helpful? Sergio Iacobucci Product Manager in Product Management at Qubit. (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker I wasn't part of the selection process. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Dunk Director of Technology in Information Technology at Systems 24-7 (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Schneider Chief Operating Officer in Corporate at betterPT (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker We were using JIRA and found it lacking in their UI and some of their services, especially communication. PT communicates much easier with simple links to tasks for execution and QA review. Basecamp is just really a super note taking and asset depot. I would not consider true … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Taylor Senior Drupal Developer in Professional Services at LevelTen Interactive (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker Compared to other task management tools, Pivotal Tracker has the best blend of functionality and cost. When you need something simpler than JIRA, and not solely focused on code or UI related tasks like BugHerd, and have a more direct approach to completing tasks than Trello - I … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker Pivotal Tracker, for better or worse, provides a more structured and rigid workflow than most. That makes it easy to get started, but if you have your own workflow you want to integrate into it, it could mean it'll take longer to get used to or customize. It's still more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker Our team has evaluated Basecamp, Trello, and others but overall preferred the simple and flexible layout of Pivotal Tracker. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker Our organization actually does not exclusively use Pivotal. We also have teams on solutions like Trello and LeanKit. It's all preference, those who buy into all the agile features that pivotal provides, love it. Those who do not need all the overhead, simply use a different … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker Rally is too complicated - there are far too many fields that all have the same meaning. It's a better agile tool in my opinion since it it was designed purely as an agile tool, but since the CA technologies acquisition, the tool has become more complicated and there are far … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Barnett JavaScript Developer in Information Technology at Aetna (E-Learning, 1-10 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker Compared to Rally the tool seems more accessible because or the suite of apps available. It also feels more polished and stable than Rally. It definitely has more tools and features but again it can be overkill for a smaller team or project. Incentivized Helpful? Wesley Wong Senior Product Manager - Mobile in Engineering at Trov Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Pivotal Tracker Overall I have found that I prefer using Pivotal over all the competitors I've tried. There are certain aspects of the other products which I do like but as a whole Pivotal does a better job. My one request is that I feel it is very much a web app and the other products have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker I have also used Trello and JIRA. A small company with only a couple of projects may be best suited with Trello due to its cost and simplicity, whereas JIRA may be better suited for a large company that can afford a dedicated JIRA manager, due to its complex configurations and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker JIRA is very complex, while tracker is more straightforward to use. Tracker requires less micromanagement and upkeep. Asana is pretty but not useful for product and engineering build. It is more geared towards design projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pivotal Tracker For teams less than a dozen or so, JIRA is total overkill. PT is just the right amount of complexity for our company. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Pivotal Tracker
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (9 ratings)