1. 1 Pivotal Tracker Getting Started Guide

2. DEFINITIONS Pivotal Tracker Story-based project planning tool from Pivotal Labs.Based on agile software methods Aims to maximize team velocity rather than points scored by individuals Projects Engage, Distro, Business, Operations, Backend (based on teams) Iteration Time span of 1 working week is called an iteration. 2

4. Easily comprehensible and verifiable.

5. Placeholder for ongoing conversations.

8. TYPES OF STORIES

9. 6 STATES OF A STORY Estimate the story Start Working on the Story Finish the Story 3 4 Commit SVN & Deploy to Live Verify 5

10. ESTIMATION OF POINTS 7

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

14. DEFINITIONS : COLLECTIONS 9

15. CASE: MULTIPLE PEOPLE WORKING ON SAME STORY? e.g. designer & developer working on a feature (1 story) Designer gets the story first & estimates in consultation with dev After finishing design tasks, designer assigns the story to dev Developer finishes dev work, deploys feature and updates story Story can be accepted once the feature is deployed to live. 10

16. ROLE OF PRODUCT MANAGERS / PRODUCT OWNERS / TECH LEADS Put all ongoing work into Pivotal Current should contain stories being worked on this week. Accept/Reject stories ASAP Before weekly meeting, get everyone to update current status of stories Delete out-dated stories from backlog or icebox. Next week of backlog is the highest-priority stuff. Estimate stories yourselfto prioritize it in backlog Make sure next 2 weeks of backlog are estimated. Get estimates from engineers if possible, otherwise fill in with your own estimate. 11

17. HOW TO REPORT PIVOTAL STORIES IN EOD? TODAY 1) Fixed & Deployed http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/3480662 Reconcile the different channel typesChangeset: http://jboutelle.trac.cvsdude.com/slideshare/changeset/18670 Fixed and Committed http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/3735705 Refactor the channels code Changeset: http://jboutelle.trac.cvsdude.com/slideshare/changeset/18670 Worked on http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/3735705 Analytics front-end refactor , 40% complete TOMORROW Work on http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/3735705 Profile redesign for PRO 12

18. Happy PivotingThank You https://sites.google.com/a/slideshare.com/intranet/how-to-use-pivotal-tracker 13