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Visibility Builds Trust

by Matthias Marschall on February 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Last week, the CTO of a partner company came over to me and asked: “Hey Matthias, do you have any benchmarks on how many commits your developers do each day? And how many lines of code they produce? I would love to compare the performance of our teams to be able to show my [...]

Introducing Your Team to Agile Using Pivotal Tracker

by Dan Ackerson on February 22, 2009 · 3 comments

Last week I held my first meeting at NetDoktor, introducing the rest of the company to both what I’m doing and how I organize my work. Of course, I’d dropped the ‘agile’ word around the office from time to time and, suprisingly, most everyone had some idea of what it meant. Sure, it was some [...]

Howto migrate from Mingle to Pivotal Tracker

by Matthias Marschall on January 22, 2009 · 3 comments

After using Pivotal Tracker myself for a couple of weeks, I recently migrated our complete development from Mingle to Tracker.
Migrating existing data between tools using CSV is always a pain. It starts with Mingle using tabs as a separator instead of, well, commas. Of course, you have different field names to match up, and then [...]

Thoughtworks Mingle vs. Pivotal Labs Tracker

by Matthias Marschall on January 8, 2009 · 5 comments

As I’ve shown in my plea to Agile Tool Vendors: Please simplify my life, I currently see only Pivotal Tracker to be a tool which simplifies my life instead of managing complexity.
Enterprise Class vs Opinionated Software

We’ve been using Mingle for over one year now and it serves us quite well. During the course of the year, we used it to manage over 2000 stories, issues and chores, and we currently only have around 90 open ones left. The only major shortcoming in my eyes is the lack of a real [...]