danp's dashboard

Alan Francis replied on October 10, 2008 21:16 to the idea "Bugs and Chores should be estimable, without counting toward velocity." in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Dan, Thanks for the feedback.

As I mentioned in my other post [ http://tinyurl.com/4df5wx ] I *love* Tracker. I've been waiting for someone to write this tool for nearly ten years (and tried myself a few times :-)

I think, in my head, I don't need to see both totals at the end. Features are the only thing that actually count. All a bug does is knock out our ability to deliver some feature in that iteration. It has a size therefore, but has the effect of reducing velocity. We had to drop this 3-point story because of this 3-point bug. This is assuming that bugs aren't planned in to the iteration, but surface midway.

This is an awesome tool. Please take my little nitpicks as just that. I've been living and breathing XP since 1999 so I'm not short of a humble opinion or two :-)

Thanks,

Alan

Scott Fleckenstein replied on October 10, 2008 20:54 to the question "Is there an offsite status page ?" in Pivotal Labs:

Thanks Dan!

danp replied on October 10, 2008 19:02 to the idea "Bugs and Chores should be estimable, without counting toward velocity." in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Alan, thanks for the suggestion. The idea behind the current model is that as long as the ratio of features to bugs/chores remains relatively constant, Tracker will predict release dates reasonably well, without the extra overhead estimating overhead, and multiple types of points (feature vs total). It is frequently the case, however, that as you get closer to a release, the number of chores/bugs in the backlog increases, and in that state, date projections become less accurate. At this point, though, you're usually fairly close to the release.

It is possible to enable estimation of bugs/chores (in project settings), but then you lose the important distinction between feature output, and total amount of work completed. Perhaps a simple change would be to display both the total and feature velocity. We'll discuss it in our next feature planning meeting.

Thanks again, and hope Tracker is working well for you otherwise.

dan

danp replied on October 10, 2008 18:46 to the question "Is there an offsite status page ?" in Pivotal Labs:

We're adding a downtime notification message, unfortunately there will be one more downtime before the message can be used. In the meantime, feel free to subscribe to tracker-project@googlegroups.com (a Google Group) for notifications.

Winton replied on October 03, 2008 22:57 to the idea "Sending story comments via email" in Pivotal Labs:

Please add it. Also a link to Retrospectiva Bug Numbers would be awesome!

danp replied on October 03, 2008 02:18 to the discussion "New Tracker Update" in Pivotal Labs:

We're changing the font back to black, watch for that change early next week.

danp replied on October 02, 2008 23:34 to the idea "Consider making the new design slightly narrower" in Pivotal Labs:

Thanks, we're working on fixing this.

joemoore replied to "Consider making the new design slightly narrower", but it was removed. see the change log

Nate Clark replied on October 02, 2008 18:02 to the discussion "New Tracker Update" in Pivotal Labs:

Excellent work, Pivots! I love this tool, and now that looks even slicker and friendlier, my clients are more willing to use it. Fantastic!

When can I pay you guys money for using Tracker?

Brian Ryckbost replied on October 02, 2008 17:10 to the idea "Consider making the new design slightly narrower" in Pivotal Labs:

The project stories page

danp replied on October 02, 2008 16:55 to the idea "Consider making the new design slightly narrower" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Daniel...just to clarify, are you talking about the project stories page, or the new dashboard pages?

evansenter replied on October 02, 2008 16:33 to the discussion "New Tracker Update" in Pivotal Labs:

I agree with Jen, the gray on yellow is difficult to read. I switched the font to black in Firebug - it's much easier on the eyes.

jen replied on October 02, 2008 16:30 to the discussion "New Tracker Update" in Pivotal Labs:

Can the font in tracker be changed back to black? The gray text is hard on the eyes. Multiple people have complained about this.

Chad Woolley started following the discussion "New Tracker Update" in Pivotal Labs.

danp started a conversation in Pivotal Labs on October 02, 2008 04:26:

New Tracker Update

We've released a new Tracker update, with a number of improvements, including:

- new look/feel, with reorganized dashboard and project details pages
- usability improvements in the project story view, including auto-scrolling of panels while dragging, basic multi-select & actions (delete, move to icebox/backlog), reorganized header, etc.
- faster page loads of dashboard and admin pages
- lots of bug fixes

See the new Recent Updates page (http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/re...) for more info.

Please don't hesitate to provide feedback here. We plan on releasing often in the next few weeks to address feedback, as well as to add more new features.

Coming up next: API, better story conflict handling, and more!

Mark replied on September 30, 2008 21:53 to the problem "Changes to our backlog are not getting applied" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Jim,

We are trying to track down this issue, but aren't having any luck recreating the problem. Is your team still experiencing the problem? What browser(s) are you seeing the problem in?

danp replied on September 30, 2008 03:53 to the problem "Changes to our backlog are not getting applied" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Jim...we have started noticing this over the last few days as well. We're looking into the problem, thanks for letting us know.

Dick replied on September 25, 2008 20:00 to the idea "Sprint burndown chart" in Pivotal Labs:

I would love a copy of the googledoc also, if you could send it over, i would appreciate it. Thanks!

Dick
dick.mcmullen@csu.mnscu.edu

Dav Yaginuma replied on September 25, 2008 18:04 to the idea "I would love a public API for Tracker" in Pivotal Labs:

What about an RSS feed of at least the History tab?

Arena replied on September 22, 2008 18:23 to the question "Can we create a publicly viewable project?" in Pivotal Labs:

As you wish.