It tracks project and gives a node for a milestone achieved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything about the software so far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike applications such as Asana and Basecamp, which are largely just cloud based to do lists that work great for departments whose work load can actually be broken down into unrelated tasks, it's really geared towards developers who often work in a web of dependencies and with tasks that are part of a greater whole, that may be 2-3 layers deep in the hierarchy of that project's completion, that are rarely just completed or not, but instead have numerous statuses in between that make take days or weeks to transition through. In a lot of ways, Pivotal Tracker is just like Jira, but whereas Jira out of the box is basically a fully dynamic setup that forces you to architect out the connections you want and all the labels for your dev cycle, Pivotal Tracker comes out of the box as a template with the most commonly used features already set (your status options are : started, finished, deployed, accepted, your ticket types are: epic, feature, bug, chore). So unless you're hell bent on a fully customizable tool, Pivotal Tracker is great because you can get up and running right away, and will rarely find you need the changes to the existing setup anyways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish bug tickets still allowed you to set an estimated time to complete. I handle most of the "bug hunting" at my job, and so it's hard for management to get an idea of where my time goes because of this unless I'm communicating to them constantly what I'm doing and when (i.e. how much time a specific bug is taking up). Which in turn makes it difficult for them to know when an edge case bug is worth continuing to pursue or if they just want me back on the main deployment for that month. I have a great boss, so it isn't as much of an issue, but if I were working elsewhere, I would be pretty upset this feature didn't exist.

I wish that when I created a view of "my tickets", that it still broke them apart with little headers showing what project dashboard view they were pulled from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PT has a nice interface that allows us to document the information we need and displays it nicely and simply. It allows us to use markdown which is great for copying card information over to github PR's quickly. There are nice visual icons that allow you to quickly identify information about a card in the condensed view. The use of labels is pretty effective at describing the work related to a particular project or sub project and the expanded label view allows you to look at the overall collection of project tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it were easier to include screenshots in the card details itself as opposed to just in the comments. Otherwise, I don't have many other complaints or pain points about pivotal tracker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No one in my team seems to like this product. Pricing is decent I hear, because it can be hosted in-house; but I am not sure about that. It does offer a segregation of various Agile processes, which "theoretically" helps Agile teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface cannot be designed worse. It is very confusing for my team to use this tool even after a few months of usage, and a basic training. It only adds to the pain because we migrated from JIRA, which offers very logical "swim-lanes" for tracking. Not only the website, but the app is also very poorly designed. I don't know if they offer GIT/SCM integration to track relevant code changes for a story. I am also not sure about integration with other testing tools like QC/ALM. If it were easy, I guess it would have been done in my team by now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love how easy to get started with this without much training on using the program tools. Very self-explanatory, and easy to get used to it. Plus unlike other PM programs, you can add / view a lot of information on one page. So you dont need to be scrolling up and down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The color palette that the company chose is a bit of a downer. I wish it was cleaner with lighter/brighter colors. But again its just a personal preference, not a reflection on the functionality of the program at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pivotal's flexibility and user interface make scoping out new projects easy. I often use pivotal tracker as a blank canvas to sketch out what I need from a business perspective before opening up my stories to Developers for feedback. Business and Developers then sync to build stories into epics, which ensures all stakeholders understand the scope of the project and the timeline for project delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Formatting stories in Pivotal Tracker is a little difficult to learn. Pivotal has a strong online support community, but many of the formatting shortcuts are not instinctual and to write a good Pivotal story takes some work. If you are a part of an established organization having some form of documentation on writing/ formatting Pivotal stories would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, clear task management, great to measure short term progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quite difficult to implement longer term planning using this tool (for example, scheduling things at a quarterly level) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a project manager, I've used Jira and other tracking packages. Pivotal tracker is the easiest one to use, nice and lightweight, and easy for my clients to understand. My favorite features are how it automatically places stories into sprints based on velocity, and the existence of the icebox feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have refined their reporting tools recently, but they still don't meet my needs. I usually download the .csv and generate my own reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy it is to see what's happening and what's at risk. The product makes it easy for the team to collaborate and to keep projects on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. It's a great solution for teams including those with remote members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great scrum/sprint management. Great for tracking things without time estimates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't do prioritization well if you have a lot of stories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.