Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker is an Agile Project Management tool.

It is in use by the following groups so far:

• TCM: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/280483
• Mozmill Tests https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/289215
• Mozmill Crowd https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/285911

Features we care about

• Easy to use
• Public accessible (read-only) and with different membership roles
• Makes prioritizing tasks simple and visually intuitive with drag and drop
• Categorization of tasks with labels
• Automatically moves tasks between the current list and the backlog dependent on the estimates of complexity - building up a queue of tasks
• Integrates with Bugzilla (see limitations below)
• Pretty graphs to show activity in the project with breakdown to members and specific date ranges
• Good overview about who is working on which tasks

How is it useful to QA?

• Managing QA projects where prioritizing tasks and having releases is important
• QA development projects

Bugzilla Integration

• You must create the bug in Bugzilla, then PT will find it
• Making a story in PT is NOT reflected in BZ
• Only Summary, Description come over from BZ
• Comments made in BZ are NOT reflected in PT
• Comments made in PT ARE reflected in BZ
• No control over BZ milestones from PT
• WE SHOULD WORK WITH THE BUGZILLA TEAM TO MAKE A BETTER INTEGRATION

Discussion

• (Henrik) Trial period is not that long. If we decide to use this tool we should request a plan early enough to move existing projects over. Looks like we could even get it for free.
• (Henrik) What will we track in Pivotaltracker vs. Scrumpad