On a side note, rumor has it Tracker Tracker was built to prevent a team’s possible migration to another tool. We’re literally speechless when our community does stuff like this, but not so tongue tied we can’t say thank you!

Here are just a few of the cool features and benefits we’ve lifted directly from the Tracker Tracker github page:

• Simultaneously view and manage stories across multiple projects
• Scrum-like UI displays one column per story state
• Search across all projects simultaneously
• All labels for all projects are visible and have epic-like mini progress charts
• Columns can be rearranged
• Labels, searches, column order, selected projects all survive browser restart
• It’s pretty easy to write custom columns and filters
• Forecasting charts

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With all these APIs floating around don’t you sometimes wish that apps would just talk to each other and keep us humans out of it. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting close with CloudWork.

It’s so straightforward I feel it’s something the Hulk might say – “Cloud Work!, Hulk no Smash puny keyboard”. If I were to use more than a noun and a verb to describe it, CloudWork connects apps via their APIs to help automate business processes. Yeah, I prefer the Hulk version. Also it doesn’t require any programming knowledge to use it (yes, there are people that read this blog that can’t code).

RIght now they connect Pivotal Tracker with Toggl, Google Calendar, Evernote, Zendesk and desk.com. I’m sure if you ask them to link to something else they’ll get to it pretty fast. They’re a cool team that is pretty on the ball. Please give it a try and tell us what you think.

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To truly grok this integration we are running some demo webinars in the new year. Register here to reserve your seat – This webinar will cover the basics of idea management and showcase the integration between the two products. There’ll also be opportunities to discuss the application and answer any questions.

Also, don’t forget that Wazoku have very kindly offered all Tracker users an exclusive discount of £0.75 / $0.50 per user per month. You can access a free trial here (don’t forget to enter the promo code PTPC25F).

Let the ideas flow and hope to see you in January on the webinar!

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It’s not that designers and developers don’t or can’t get along. What the team at Redline realized is that they speak a different language. So to facilitate the communication between these two life forms they created this tool

It’s simple to set up, simple to use and simple to incorporate into your Pivotal Tracker account – what else could you ask for?

Redline.cc is in beta – so cut them some slack (not that there’s anything to gripe about) and ask the designers you work with to give them try.

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Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight is a fabulous new tool for Product Managers to manage and filter product development ideas. Now that they’ve integrated Tracker (We’re flattered to be their first third party integration), it’s borderline alchemical, transmuting raw ideas into stories is simple and seamless.

What Wazoku provides is a structure to the process of collecting and capturing ideas and a place where these can then be evaluated and analysed. The benefit to you and me is that it can help manage your Icebox and increase collaboration on development ideas.

Above and beyond great functionality, the team at Wazoku are offering an exclusive 25% off for life, just for Pivotal Tracker users. Maybe it’s their Robot icon… but the “I’d buy that for a dollar” line from Robocop comes to mind.

Try it out, tell us what you think and be sure to enter this promo code on the sign up form: PTPC25F

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Airbrake is a great tool for identifying errors generated by other apps all in one place. I guess if you’re the offending app you might call it a rat, snitch, stool pigeon or fink – but to the rest of us it’s the canary in the coal mine that can save your butt.

As of today you can view Airbrake errors from within Pivotal Tracker and link activity back into Airbrake as a Tracker comment on the error it’s self.

The folks at Airbrake have explained in detail the two stage setup required to integrate Tracker with their app. Check it out here. If you’re new to Airbrake, it’s free for 30 days, so give it a try and tell us what you think.

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When it comes to app match ups no-one does it cleaner than Zapier. The way I see it, they’re the bread that surrounds a PB&J sandwich. Sure the good stuff is in the middle, but you wouldn’t be able to enjoy it without getting your fingers dirty if it weren’t for the bread.

As Zapier puts it, they make it easy to sync data between web apps; what’s more they can do this now with over 50 apps including Pivotal Tracker, Zendesk, Github, Wufoo, Mailchimp and Google this that and the other to name drop a few. Read more about their Pivotal Tracker integration.

The entire experience is drag and drop. The functionality is straightforward “if this then that”, or as Zapier calls it, Triggers leading to Actions. Plans range from Free to I need to think about this.

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Email is an antiquated concept that is an unmitigated productivity killer. Personally I have a suspicion that it’s actually Skynet 1.0. That said, it ain’t going away tomorrow or next month and or even by the end of the decade. So what is a human to do.

In comes Powerinbox – a company that has a “the glass is half full” perspective on the issue. What they do is bring apps to your email, just like the iPhone brought apps to your phone. For starters, you can view your facebook, twitter and linkedin feeds right from your email account.

Powerinbox is free and integrates with Gmail, Yahoo mail, hotmail and Outlook and more relevantly, they play nice with us, PIVOTAL TRACKER! To learn how check out their really informative blog post.

In a nutshell – if you’re reading this you are the resistance and very likely a Tracker user with an email account and a host of social media connections – so do yourself a solid and checkout Powerinbox.

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Leftronic has produced a really nice clean dashboard to view all your company’s data in one place. Real-time data beautifully organized and rendered. View info from Google Analytics and Adwords, Zendesk, Amazon Web Services, New Relic, Salesforce, Pingdom, Mail Chimp and more on one customized screen.

Most importantly they’ve made it easy to integrate Pivotal Tracker immediately with a ready to use template.
Check out their blog post to get the overview – but for the real meat – go right to their tutorial

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Congrats to our friend Jeff Ma and his latest enterprise tenXer for being written up in the New York Times.

tenXer tracks activities from your Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, Phabricator, Google Calendar, and Gmail accounts and provides statistics about your performance. To put it in terms our users are more familiar with, it’s about visualizing your “life Velocity”. You can read more on the benefits of tenXer on the tour section of their site

Thanks Jeff and the gang at tenXer for choosing to integrate with Tracker right out of the gate. If like us at Tracker, you use most of the services tenXer connects to already, there is really no good reason not to get a tenXer account today.

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