Dan Podsedly manages Pivotal Tracker, Pivotal Labs’ award winning project management and collaboration software.
Dan has been building large applications since the Smalltalk era, and has been a practitioner and coach of agile programming methods since the earliest days of Extreme Programming. He has led projects in a variety of industries, built a consulting practice from the ground up, and was instrumental in the successful adoption of agile methods at some of the world's largest e-commerce companies.
Dan joined Pivotal in 2004 as Principal, and spent the next four years leading Pivotal’s largest client engagements. In 2008, Dan led the public launch of Pivotal Tracker, originally developed as an internal tool to help Pivotal developers improve their efficiency, and has grown the product into what it is today - a popular, well known force of agile transformation in the software industry used by hundreds of thousands of developers.
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I have to say thanks for the great tool. I’m going to start migrating from Mingle to pivotaltracker tomorrow (Christmas holidays is the perfect time for the move ;-) ).
I was already that close to start writing my own tool – but not anymore. The most surprising thing is that I don’t even miss a story-board view (the one thing I found most important in agile tools so far). Obviously you found the most natural way of showing the flow of stories (done ones get green and move to the top, colorful buttons showing the current status of a story, etc) even without such a Kanban like view. Congrats.
December 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm