Pivotal Tracker is a story-based project planning tool used by teams to track work. It uses agile methods to maximize team velocity rather than individual points. The key elements in Pivotal Tracker include stories which represent tasks, labels to organize stories, releases to mark milestones, and charts to visualize progress. Stories go through states like estimate, work in progress, and done. Velocity is calculated based on the average points of accepted stories over recent iterations to estimate how much work can be completed. The tool allows multiple people like designers and developers to work on the same story. Product managers use it to prioritize and estimate stories for upcoming iterations and sprints.

1. 1Pivotal Tracker Getting Started Guide

2. DEFINITIONSPivotal Tracker Story-based project planning tool from Pivotal Labs.Based on agile software methodsAims to maximize team velocity rather than points scored by individualsProjectsEngage, Distro, Business, Operations, Backend (based on teams)IterationTime span of 1 working week is called an iteration.2

3. 3DEFINITIONSStory is a basic unit in pivotalRepresents small, concrete deliverable for a project.

4. Easily comprehensible and verifiable.

5. Placeholder for ongoing conversations.

6. Maybe estimated in points.Tasks: To-do list while someone works on a story

7. Task status does not affect overall story status.LABELS, RELEASES AND CHARTS Labelsare tags, associated with stories. They are used to organize stories. All labels in the project can be seen in the Labels & Searches panel.A Release is a special type of story that represents a milestone in the backlog. Releases may be tied to production code pushes or they may simply represent a group of related features.Charts available in Pivotal Tracker : https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help#whatchartsareavailableintracker4

8. TYPES OF STORIES

9. 6STATES OF A STORYEstimate the story Start Working on the StoryFinish the Story34 Commit SVN & Deploy to LiveVerify5

10. ESTIMATION OF POINTS7

11. DEFINITIONSVelocityAverage number of points accepted per iteration, based on recently completed iterations.How is velocity calculated?Accepted stories in the current iteration move to the Done panel.

12. Team velocity is a running average of the velocity of the past 3 iterations.

13. Remaining stories are grouped into future iterations based on velocity.8