Mike Schwab's dashboard

Mike Schwab replied on August 21, 2009 16:03 to the idea "Adding time created and time started to .CSV file" in Pivotal Labs:

Max, you can see timestamps for every state change on the Progress Report.

Mike Schwab replied on August 20, 2009 13:44 to the idea "Story tasks" in Pivotal Labs:

Tracker is designed to encourage breaking things down into fine-grained stories. Tasks are just reminders and should not need to be estimated. In our experience that is just too big an investment of time that should be spent on implementation.

Point estimates are relative and rather vague anyway. You shouldn't need to re-estimate a story after adding tasks. If you do, you could consider making some of the tasks into stories.

Mike Schwab replied on August 17, 2009 16:18 to the idea "Mark for delete feature" in Pivotal Labs:

Michael, you should use a label for this, and then delete them manually. If you do get to spend time with the whole team, you can quickly bring up all the questionable stories by searching for the label.

Mike Schwab replied on August 17, 2009 14:36 to the problem "No longer see hover-over speech bubbles on stories" in Pivotal Labs:

This is a new feature that makes it easier to discern which stories have comments.

Mike Schwab started following the question "Possible to include the project name in twitter updates?" in Pivotal Labs.

Mike Schwab replied on August 12, 2009 14:25 to the problem "Cannot edit a task to have question mark in text" in Pivotal Labs:

Alex, we are aware of this issue, and we will be ready to patch it up very shortly. Thanks,

-Mike

Mike Schwab replied on August 11, 2009 15:21 to the question "I can't get twitter integration to work. Is there a long delay?" in Pivotal Labs:

This appears to have been related to Twitter's outage last week. Let us know if you have further problems or delays.

Mike Schwab replied on August 11, 2009 15:18 to the idea "CSS themability" in Pivotal Labs:

You can apply your own stylesheet(s) using your browser (or Fluid).

Mike Schwab marked one of Mark's replies in Pivotal Labs as useful. Mark replied to the question "Getting iteration from a story via ActiveResource".

Mike Schwab replied on August 11, 2009 15:12 to the idea "Tracker should enable drag and drop transfer of stories between projects" in Pivotal Labs:

Maybe the project tabs could be used as drop zones. But what should happen if the story contains labels and members that don't exist in the other project? Should they be added to the second project or removed from the story?

Mike Schwab replied on August 11, 2009 15:09 to the problem "Pivottaltracker has no favicon: tab not easy to recognize" in Pivotal Labs:

Actually, Tracker does have a favicon. It is the red circle that we use for an O in Pivotal. Your browser may be having trouble displaying it for some reason.

Mike Schwab replied on August 07, 2009 20:30 to the question "Can I retrieve multiple stories via the API at once?" in Pivotal Labs:

You can do this by using a filter.

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/ap...

pivotaltracker.com/services/v2/projects/PROJECT_ID/stories?filter=id%3A1%2C2%2C3

(the %3A is a colon and the %2C's are commas, so the filter is actually id:1,2,3)

Mike Schwab replied on August 07, 2009 18:06 to the question "RSS feed for all project activity?" in Pivotal Labs:

tinomen, the RSS feed is at the top right of the dashboard, just above the activity feed.

Mike Schwab started following the idea "Delete/Edit Comments" in Pivotal Labs.

Mike Schwab marked one of kc's replies in Pivotal Labs as useful. kc replied to the question "How do I delist myself from a project that I'm no longer working on?".

Mike Schwab replied on August 06, 2009 14:01 to the question "Creating Chores is a Chore." in Pivotal Labs:

Jason, since you indicated that you are breaking stories into tasks, you will be happy to know that we have just added this as an experimental feature, which you can enable in your project's settings.

The enter key saves a task and your cursor goes right back into the new task field. It doesn't get any faster than that.

-Mike

Mike Schwab replied on August 06, 2009 13:52 to the idea "Add a 'Blocked' status" in Pivotal Labs:

EPM, have you tried using labels to indicate when stories are blocked? Labels function as saved searches, so your scrum master will always have an easy way to view all blocked stories.

You could also use multiple namespaced labels like 'blocked: design' and 'blocked: hosting'. That will give you a more actionable result than a generic Blocked state would.

Another approach would be to use tasks, which is a brand new feature. If a story seems blocked just add a task indicating what you think needs to be done to unblock it.

Mike Schwab replied on August 05, 2009 22:35 to the idea "Search for unestimated stories, or estimated points" in Pivotal Labs:

This is upcoming.

Mike Schwab replied on August 05, 2009 22:34 to the idea "Enable html markup in story descriptions" in Pivotal Labs:

Sean, you can already use bold and italics, and urls become links. We are considering allowing more HTML elements.

Mike Schwab replied on August 05, 2009 22:29 to the idea "Comments! Come out, come out wherever you are!" in Pivotal Labs:

We are considering a different icon for stories that have a description and no comments.