Truly the end of an era.
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Pivotal Tracker will shut down
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#32Unfortunate. Of all the PM tools I've used, I hated Pivotal the least. It made it easy to do the things that were frequently done. It limited customization down to a sane level. And it generally seemed to stay out of the way (significant look at Jira).
Agreed, as an ex-pivot I really liked PT (relative to Jira et al.)
It was clear the VMWare was going to gut the company, and Broadcom only made that clearer.
It was once a great company... (Pivotal Labs)
Now it's toast.
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#33They're not migrating users to another VMware company product? VMware can't sell Pivotal Tracker to some company that will keep it going longer (and perhaps try to migrate customers to their own product)?
Since VMware sold to Broadcom in 2023, they've been cutting jobs and increasing prices to squeeze every bit of profitability possible out of their remaining customers. I'm actually kind of surprised they aren't offering support past April 30 2025 end-of-life date for 50x the current pricing.
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#34I remember their (pivotal) culture was very unique. Maybe the developers have tired out of mandatory pairing
Reminds me of the BitBucket “spooning” video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wUOUmeulNs
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I have been on Pivotal Tracker for over a decade. Still am. Tried Jira and a few others, usually feeling like they are too taxing on the management part. What are alternatives that are light on the customization and day-to-day management?
end of an era linear.app seems ok
+1 for linear.app. It's somewhat similar in feel to PT. It's very responsive and has vim style key bindings. We switched a year ago and haven't looked back.
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#37Pivotal is the company whose CEO went to Burning Man and wrote a 100% unironic blog post about how it changed his life right?
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#38We have to use Jira at my current workplace and it's so complicated. Pivotal Tracker, which I used at previous workplace, was so simple and focused. Sad to hear it's shutting down!
I am fascinated by how complex JIRA is. We evaluated it in 2008. It seemed fine enough.
Looking at it 16 years later, and… what is this nonsense? It’s so customizable that it’s loaded with footguns.
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#39Unfortunate. Of all the PM tools I've used, I hated Pivotal the least. It made it easy to do the things that were frequently done. It limited customization down to a sane level. And it generally seemed to stay out of the way (significant look at Jira).
Agreed, as an ex-pivot I really liked PT (relative to Jira et al.) It was clear the VMWare was going to gut the company, and Broadcom only made that clearer. It was once a great company... (Pivotal Labs) Now it's toast.
I have never understood the VMWare/Pivotal thing, to the point where I assumed there must be two different companies named that for VMWare to have bought a company called Pivotal.
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#40This has been coming for a while. I feel bad for anyone still building on anything Tanzu these days. I expect we will see a similar announcement about some or all of those products in the coming years. It’s gotta feel stressful to those teams relying on these products.