# VMware Tanzu Labs Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Product Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/product-management-software) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 107 ## About VMware Tanzu Labs Pivotal Tracker is a product-planning and management tool designed exclusively for modern software development teams. Tracker supports an agile workflow and has been refined and optimized over ten years to provide just the right amount of structure to facilitate team communication and collaboration. Project status, workflow, conversations, and documents are easily accessible to the entire team—in one place—so product owners know where things stand and developers know what to focus on. Because Tracker was designed to be simple to learn and easy to use, product owners can be sure that the data they see reflects the true status of all their projects. -Team collaboration around a shared backlog everyone can see -Easy access to notifications and story creation -Project Analytics show big picture and fine details -Workspaces show all your work, across all projects and teams -Automated velocity provides an honest view of your team's future -More than 140 third-party apps and integrations -Project history shows everything that's happened -Native iOS and Android apps to keep on-the-go team members up to date Tracker is helping teams build better software by transforming how they build software—one story at a time. “The best agile project management tool, period.” —Kaz Walker, Sr. Developer, Foodee Media Inc. ## VMware Tanzu Labs Reviews ### 1. Excellent tool for project management and collaboration. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ancel K. | Business Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** With Pivotal Tracker, you and your team can simply reorganize any inquiries or tickets you or your clients may have, allowing you and your team to multitask to your strengths and avoid spending time on the more complex stuff. Pivotal Tracker allows you to define standards for how you work without feeling oppressive in your workflow. Pivotal Tracker is a really useful project management tool for everyday work, the platform is quite easy to use and browse, and I particularly enjoy the locking function. In addition, it is an easy software to implement and easy to integrate with other platforms. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** I recall being a little puzzled about how to browse the various pages when I initially used Pivotal Tracker; the user experience could be made a little more intuitively. Although it is a fantastic platform, it does feel a little old at times because tales can only be viewed as a list; I wish it had other forms of graphics, such as decks. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pivotal Tracker, which tracks project processes and tasks inside a project, helps a worldwide team to be on the same page about where a project is, what is being worked on, and by whom. At work, I use Pivotal Tracker to enter problems and feature suggestions for engineers; the software allows us to communicate effectively and is simple to use. ### 2. Great for Scrum **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabrielle C. | Product Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** As a Product Owner, there are several great aspects of Pivotal Tracker: the view, ease of creating tickets, & use of labels. For the view, I can set up my columns to see the state of the current sprint at a glance, as well as manage the priority in the backlog and add tickets into the icebox. I can also filter by the work assigned to each developer, which is useful during Sprint Planning. Creating tickets is very easy, you can set up different templates to capture all the necessary info for a bug or feature. The labels are also useful for seeing the state of a specific project. We use "epics" for our release and major projects. Overall, Pivotal Tracker is a great tool. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** When we were trying Kanban, Pivotal Tracker was not the best tool to view different states of the ticket as swimlanes. We made it work by assigning specific labels and new views to sort by those labels, but Kanban is not the best method to use with this product. Instead, the tickets are color coded by state and listed vertically in the Current Iteration. The column starts to get very long for some of our teams with large sprint workloads. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pivotal tracker helps me organize and prioritize the upcoming work for development. Using it with Scrum is helpful because my team reviews items in the backlog during Backlog Refinement where we can determine if any critical information is missing from the ticket before they start working on it. Once the ticket enters the current sprint, I can easily view the status of each item, whether it is in development, being reviewed, or ready for review. Before this product, my company used a very standard Waterfall method with a different system which did not allow us to see all the work that was being done in one place. ### 3. Pivotal Tracker is helps in streamlining the Project Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SHIVAM A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** The best thing I like about this application is that it is user-friendly and simple user interface. Navigating throughout the program is straightforward, having a neat and structured design that allows for simple access to project details and progress. Making and handling tasks, user stories, as well as epics are simple, allowing teams to rapidly outline project scope and split it down into workable portions. This level of clarity and structure improves efficiency and allows teams to remain centered on their goals. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Although Pivotal Tracker provides a strong set of attributes, there are some areas wherever it can be additional improved. The reporting and analytics features, although sufficient, may need more complex and easy to customize solutions. This will provide teams with much deeper information into project effectiveness, enabling better decision-making and resource allocation. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the greatest problems which Pivotal Tracker addresses is the absence of clarity and organization in project scope and tasks. The program excels at breaking down projects into feasible portions, permitting teams to outline and prioritize responsibilities, user stories, and epics. One other issue Pivotal Tracker resolves is the co-ordination and collaboration between associates, specifically in distributed or distant setups. ### 4. Ad Hoc Tool That Adds Value to Development and Engineering **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael H. | Fulfillment Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** The most helpful thing about Pivotal Tracker is that its features are simple to utilize. Pivotal Tracker resembles Jira, which helps me become familiar with its components. Stories can be moved between folders, epics and such, which makes me see a project more of a manageable personal space. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** What I dislike about Pivotal Tracker is that when visiting a project, no feature allows members to view their own stories. Without this feature, there is no easy way for members to search through particular stories that they have created or followed up with. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pivotal Tracker solves problems in various fields, which can pertain to Operations, Products or Engineering. For instance, when there is a task needs for Product team or Software Engineering team to work with, a story is created. With the integration included, Pivotal Tracker helps the whole company work together instead of working in silos. ### 5. Simplest yet Powerful Project Management Tool I adore like anything. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M S. | Product Line Manager @ Tanzu Portfolio, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Simple and easy to onboard yourself and your team in just a few minutes. It has many features that help me plan my work effectively for my team. It also encourages to improve! **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** The tool has many hidden gems - features like capacity planning and automating planning of iterations and amazing analytics - A single view dashboard for team level may help. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Tanzu Labs:** If you are looking to embrace Agile in the true sense and want to plan and finish work realistically, Pivotal Tracker is the product of your choice. It's no fancy product that works the best for true project management needs. There are so many features that help the daily planning, tracking and monitoring work from the PM's point of view and working on stories from the devs' point of view. The API support is amazing and there are a plethora of integrations. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning realistically and true agile way without being tormented for timelines and milestones. ### 6. Easy setup to get going fast **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Relatively easy to set up if you're short on time and need to move fast with your team. If Jira is too complicated for you to set up, pivotal allows you to create stories quickly and organize them to get on with your sprint. Their reporting is great and I love that it calculates how much you can accomplish per sprint. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** It is missing a few features (or maybe I'm not aware of them if they do exist) that Jira thrives on. I like to be able to see a history of work and Pivotal is more of comment based system. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using pivotal for sprint planning and project tracking in an agile development lifecycle with one week sprints. ### 7. CEO TechBits **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asif J. | Lead Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** All Project were manged on Pivotal for Beeline Communication LLC Chicago **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** its learning curve for new users, limited customization options, and pricing structure. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Team Collaboration Prioritization WorkFlow management Predictability Visibility Continuous Improvement Pivotal Tracker encourages an iterative and agile development approach, promoting continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback loops. ### 8. Pivotal Tracker manages our entire engineering workflow **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Overall product ease of use and tool flexibility **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Would like to have more robust reporting and analysis capabilities **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing our engineering development pipeline and process ### 9. Good for small, projects **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gevorg G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Simple to use . Reporting is also reasonable. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** UI styles , editors are old style and dont have link definition the integration with JIRA would be good to have The team velocity calculation is complex , don't ake an acount CORE and non estimatable tasks **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support tickests tracking Making Realeses ### 10. An advanced tool for workflow management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit S. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Tanzu Labs?** Being into consulting business, we deal with a lot of clients and their respective teams. It is a daunting job to keep track of multiple projects with multiple clients and teams. Pivotal helps us here being an agile tool to track various tasks. It is a must-have tool for people dealing with multiple teams. **What do you dislike about VMware Tanzu Labs?** They do have an Android app to access it from phones, but it is not as efficient as the web application. The app freezes a lot of time, and ultimately it crashes. **What problems is VMware Tanzu Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pivotal can help you understand if any stories are being shipped by a particular at any given point. It is a web-based solution and hence can be accessed from anywhere, ## VMware Tanzu Labs Discussions - [How do I create a pivotal tracker board?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-create-a-pivotal-tracker-board) - [What is a chore in Pivotal Tracker?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-chore-in-pivotal-tracker) - [Is Pivotal Tracker Free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-pivotal-tracker-free) - [What is pivotal tracker used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-pivotal-tracker-used-for) - [The Product needs to bifurcate the allignment of projects under different segments](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15020-the-product-needs-to-bifurcate-the-allignment-of-projects-under-different-segments) - 1 upvote - [View VMware Tanzu Labs pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu-labs/reviews/vmware-tanzu-labs-review-282870?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+10%3A51%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d5b8b34c-3b16-4392-9a91-efee5a3d8358&secure%5Btoken%5D=ac6add6bc3fb83a80207afb62a925bbdc5c973d1e3b54f5eb39dd26124772dda&format=llm_user) ## VMware Tanzu Labs Features **Communication** - Wiki Documentation - Community Forum - Customer Ideation **Planning** - Work Capacity - Task Ranking - Kanban Board - Custom Workflows - Release Forecasting **Workflow Management** - Time Tracking - Progress Monitoring - Budgeting - Team Scorecard ## Top VMware Tanzu Labs Alternatives - [Jira](https://www.g2.com/products/jira/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (7,436 reviews) - [Asana](https://www.g2.com/products/asana/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13,078 reviews) - [Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-project-portfolio-management/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (1,577 reviews)