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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pivotal Tracker

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/APivotal 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

    Trello

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ATrello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.

    $6

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Pivotal TrackerTrello
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard
    $6
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12.50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $17.50
    per month per user
    Free
    Forever Free
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    Pricing Offerings
    Pivotal TrackerTrello
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.
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    Pivotal TrackerTrello
    Considered Both Products
    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Pivotal Tracker
    In my opinion, Trello is more of a pretty UI than a agile tracker. So, if you have a technical team where you want to increase efficiency, I would go with Pivotal Tracker.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pivotal Tracker
    I personally prefer Pivotal Tracker to Trello, but Trello has it's advantages. Trello, through its card system, allows for more organization at a more specific level than Pivotal Tracker does. Pivotal Tracker has better bug tracking with its status updates, and gives a project …
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Pivotal Tracker
    I wasn't part of the selection process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pivotal Tracker
    Our team has evaluated Basecamp, Trello, and others but overall preferred the simple and flexible layout of Pivotal Tracker.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Pivotal Tracker
    I used to be a huge JIRA fan, until I realized how much time I was spending fixing complicated custom workflows and statuses. I spend almost no time administering Pivotal Tracking. And it turns out, those complicated, custom workflows weren't helping us anyway.
    Incentivized
    Atlassian
    Chose Trello
    Trello is very good for communicating plans between developers and management. It's much better than my memories of Pivotal Tracker, tries to provide better tools for agile methodology, but I found it rather difficult to use well. For initial planning within our team we use …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Features
    Pivotal TrackerTrello
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Pivotal Tracker and Trello
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Trello
    9.5
    207 Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings9.8207 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.6172 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings10.068 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings10.0157 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.0131 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.0203 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings9.4141 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings6.5112 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings10.0150 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings10.0137 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings10.0181 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings10.084 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.197 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings10.070 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Pivotal Tracker and Trello
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    Pivotal Tracker
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    Ratings
    Trello
    5.0
    68 Ratings
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings5.048 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings5.041 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings5.054 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings5.042 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Pivotal TrackerTrello
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    9.8
    (207 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (45 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (80 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)