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PivotalTracker Best Practices

(For those who haven't heard of it, Pivotal Tracker "is a simple, story-based project planning tool that allows teams to collaborate and instantly react to real-world changes. It's based on agile software development methods, but it can be used on a variety of types of projects.") We're about to ramp up with a workflow based around this...

Convert XML collection (of Pivotal Tracker stories) to Ruby hash/object

I have a collection of stories in an XML format. I would like to parse the file and return each story as either hash or Ruby object, so that I can further manipulate the data within a Ruby script. Does Nokogiri support this, or is there a better tool/library to use? The XML document has the following structure, returned via Pivotal Tra...

How does PivotalTracker.com update its view in real time?

I'm trying to build a view similar to PivotalTracker where there are a variety of rows in different buckets. There is some polling to the server because rows could be updated by other users while you're working on it and the page should update on its own without having to manually refresh it. I know how to poll the server and get updat...

How to change the external datasource(i.e., MS Access) in pivot table using macros

Hi, I have a pivot table connected by an Access db as source data and is working fine. But the constraint is that the location of the Access(.mdb) file has been changed to a new folder, as a result my pivot is not getting updated or refreshed. I tried to find out the source using the Get Data button but with no success. Could someone ...

What is your workflow to coordinate Pivotal Tracker with Mercurial?

I want to use Pivotal Tracker for a new project but I don't know how to use it with Mercurial to make it easy to go from one tool to the other. What workflow do you use to link user stories/feature in Pivotal Tracker with your DVCS (Mercurial/Git)? Thanks in advance for your advices. ...

How to hook Pivotal Tracker to Redmine?

Our company is currently using Redmine, it's great for general tasks / troubleshooting (operation) but for development, I would like to adopt a more agile tool... and I found it in pivotaltracker. I googled but couldn't find any info., so that gave me a good excuse to try StackOverflow. Has anyone done it? I'm thinking of using Pivota...

Bug or feature for a cosmetic change in Pivotal Tracker?

If I need to fix something cosmetic in my application (e.g. fixing the color of an element), should this be marked as a bug or as a feature in Pivotal Tracker? Note: even though it's cosmetic, that doesn't mean that this fix will be trivial. ...

Pivotal Tracker + Assembla SVN

Is it possible to integrate Pivotal with Assembla? I want Pivotal to be able to see the commits made in the Assembla SVN repository ...