PivotalTracker

Pivotal Tracker is a project management and collaboration tool designed primarily for agile software development teams. It facilitates project tracking, progress monitoring, and team communication by providing a shared workspace where priorities, tasks, and progress are easily visible and manageable. The tool is designed to promote transparency and accountability across the team, making it easier to stay aligned and deliver products iteratively. Pivotal Tracker supports features like backlogs, sprints, story points, and real-time status updates to encourage an agile workflow.

Frends can integrate seamlessly with Pivotal Tracker to enable automation and streamline processes across development and business operations. By connecting Pivotal Tracker with other systems like CRMs, DevOps pipelines, and communication platforms, teams can eliminate manual tasks, ensure real-time data flow, and improve overall efficiency.

Business use cases

Automate Status Updates

With Frends, you can automate the process of updating task or story statuses in Pivotal Tracker. For example, when a developer pushes code to a specific branch, Frends can update the corresponding story in Pivotal Tracker to "In Progress" or "Completed." This ensures that stakeholders always have real-time visibility into project progress without requiring manual updates.

Synchronize with Time Tracking Systems

For teams that use third-party time tracking tools, Frends can synchronize logged hours with stories or tasks in Pivotal Tracker. When a team member logs time in the external time-tracking system, Frends can automatically reflect those hours within the corresponding Pivotal Tracker story. This eliminates the need for duplicating effort and ensures accurate reporting.

Integrate with Issue Tracking Systems

Frends can connect Pivotal Tracker with issue tracking tools like Jira or GitHub Issues. When an issue is created in the issue tracker, Frends can automatically create a corresponding story in Pivotal Tracker, ensuring alignment between tasks and bug fixes. Similarly, updates made to the story in Pivotal Tracker can be reflected back in the issue tracking system.

Automate Notifications for Task Progress

Keep team members and stakeholders informed by automating notifications. Frends can monitor activities in Pivotal Tracker and send updates to communication tools like Microsoft Teams or Slack. For instance, when a milestone is reached or a specific type of story is completed, a notification can be triggered automatically, improving collaboration and transparency.

Generate Custom Reports and Dashboards

With Frends, you can extract data from Pivotal Tracker and deliver custom reports or dashboards to the right stakeholders. The integration can gather data on team performance, story completions, or sprint progress, and send visualized reports to managers or project leads at specified intervals. This improves data-driven decision-making and helps track overall productivity effectively.

Link to CI/CD Pipelines

Frends can connect Pivotal Tracker directly to your Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools. When a build or deployment is executed, Frends can update the related tasks in Pivotal Tracker, allowing developers and other technical members to see when items have been processed or are ready for the next stage of development.

Automate Backlog Management

Frends can help with backlog management by automating the prioritization or creation of new stories based on patterns or triggers from other systems. For example, customer feedback received through a CRM system can be used to create or prioritize Pivotal Tracker stories automatically. This ensures that customer needs are immediately reflected within the development workflow.

By leveraging Frends with Pivotal Tracker, businesses can reduce complexity, foster collaboration, and maintain seamless workflows as part of their agile development practices.