Pivotal Integration: Autocomplete tasks and post actions from Pivotal Tracker
by WorkingOn
Pivotal Tracker
Working as a developer, and in management positions on development teams, I’ve had an opportunity to work with many different project management tools. I’ve noticed that development teams fond of the Agile Development Methodology and contract development firms deem Pivotal Tracker as a favorite. Pivotal Tracker is a powerful tool to gather requirements, build and break down sprints, and organize work. It’s structured to help teams move work through an efficient workflow, and uncomplicated time estimation helps set expectations.
One of the more interesting aspects of Pivotal Tracker is the idea of Epics. Epics allow your team to plan, discuss, and monitor the progress of high level, big-picture features. It’s not uncommon for a developer to be working on some small feature and think to themselves, “Why am I doing this? Why am I doing it like this?” When a story is tagged as an Epic, it’s easy to quickly remind yourself what the big picture is by clicking the purple epic tag, and see all the stories that make up the bigger project.
These are just a few of the great features that make up Pivotal Tracker. It’s not surprising that it was one of our most requested integrations.
“Pivotal Tracker helps to manage projects the Agile way. Integrating with WorkingOn allows us to save time in our weekly meeting.”
WorkingOn <> PivotalTracker
It’s simple to get Pivotal Tracker connected to WorkingOn and get back to work.
When you start, finish, or deliver stories or tasks in Pivotal, WorkingOn automagically saves your activity to your feed.
We recently added search to the WorkingOn activity feed, and we found that some of our folks have been tagging work with tags to make searching easier! We loved the idea, and wanted to make an integration that added some helpful tags to posted work. When you finish a task or story, we mark the activity with #done and mark as #delivered when the story is accepted.
We made sure that tasks and stories assigned to you are autocompleted on the website and through the Chrome extension.
Your daily progress report will include your Pivotal activity with links back to the story for reference.
Tools like Pivotal Tracker help manage your development projects, especially if your team (and maybe your clients!) is made up of a remote workforce or simply not all working in the same location.
Unless your distributed team can figure out how to do all of this with Post-it notes on the wall, I suggest you set up Pivotal Tracker and WorkingOn, and get back to work!
I hope this integration improves your workflow as much as it has for our own team! If you have any thoughts on how we could improve our Pivotal Integration (or WorkingOn), please let us know at hello@workingon.co.
