At Pivotal Labs, we like to keep our Tracker stories as small as possible, so that each story describes a single, concrete feature that delivers incremental value to our project’s customer. With small stories, there is rarely a need to break things down further, but sometimes it’s still useful to keep a to-do list while working on a story. This helps keep track of all the little things you have to do, and lets everyone else on the project know exactly what’s left.
To enable story tasks for your project, go to project settings, and check the ‘enable tasks’ option under Experimental. You should then be able to add tasks to stories, under the description field. Hover over a task to edit it, delete it, or move it up and down. You can also check off a task when it’s complete, but task status does not affect overall story status.
Story tasks can be viewed and updated via the API.
As always, we look forward to your feedback. If story tasks are popular, we’ll enable them for all projects, by default.
Great timing. I was just pitching PT to some co-workers and the tasks “thing” came up. Looking forward to playing with this a bit.
August 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Awesome! I love Tracker and that tasks feature just make me love it more! =D
Keep with the great work guys!
August 6, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Nice job guys, this was on my top 3 list of things that tracker needed to help adoption at the current gig.
August 6, 2009 at 3:09 pm
This is a fantastic addition – our developers will be very happy about this.
August 6, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Awesome addition! I wish the field were less dominating when no tasks are present.
August 7, 2009 at 7:59 am
This is a great feature, but I can easily see it getting abused and overused :(. Please provide a way to disable it.
August 8, 2009 at 2:33 am
It would be nice if a particular task has become too difficult to have a button to break that task off into its own story.
November 8, 2009 at 9:04 pm