I've been tinkering with it over the last week and while I really like that it has estimation and velocity tracking I dislike that I only have a fixed set of columns to work with, filtering requires more steps, and I find that it takes me longer to figure out what's going on.
I feel like the app team would have to fit its process into the tool rather then the other way around. Good for me to try it out though. --tomasz On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, Pivotal Tracker actually looks pretty slick. You don't get the same > level of customization that you do with Mingle. AFAICT with about 20 mins of > poking around (so I could be wrong about some of this), you cant create > arbitrary card types, enforce arbitrary workflows, create and save custom > views, generate arbitrary reports, create macros to do all kinds of crazy > things like complex graph generation, create custom lanes on the wall, > create different backlogs (eg release vs iteration), etc etc. However, maybe > my account doesn't have sufficient permissions to modify some of these > things and the flexibility is just hidden from me. > > It looks to have a LOT of the simplicity you get with Trello, with basic > enforcement of standard scrum-y tenants, basic reporting tools, and simple > workflow management - I think this would probably work well for most, but > some may find it too limiting. Then again, maybe the limitations are a good > thing - it's easy to get carried away in Mingle once you get over the steep > learning curve of managing a project there. Plus, there is no mobile app for > Mingle which drives me insane, and not just because I'm on the mobile > team... I took a quick spin with 'turning point' - one of the few pivotal > tracker apps in the android play store. Seems pretty straightforward and > like you can do a lot of what you can in the webapp. > > The API looks robust; but the devil is always in the details - APIs in > practice are usually different beasts than their documentation may lead you > to believe. With a quick glance though the docs, it looks like we would be > able to make tools like bingle and gingle to use the Pivotal API. > > From the feedback I've heard from Tomasz and the apps team, this might > actually be a really good fit for their needs. > > I'm really curious to hear from others who have Mingle experience - > particularly to hear if Pivotal Tracker would be an acceptable replacement. > > Swalling, I may have goobered a few things up on the Growth board in Pivotal > - I hope it really is experimental and I didn't screw things up for you guys > :p > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> This brings up a big issue with both FOSS and proprietary tools: how do >>> we get our data out and migrate it if necessary? >>> >>> Trello exports a board in JSON, and Pivotal will import/export CSV. Does >>> Mingle have data export functions? >> >> >> Yes. Mingle only exports a full project in a proprietary serialized >> format, but you can also selectively export cards into a CSV. I haven't >> tried it, but theoretically you should be able to create a query that >> returns ALL cards that you have and export them into a CSV. Mingle can >> import from the serialized format or from arbitrary CSV. >> >> -- >> Arthur Richards >> Software Engineer, Mobile >> [[User:Awjrichards]] >> IRC: awjr >> +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
