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Pivotal provided a nice middle ground and was so easy to use with just the right amount of customization and power user functionality.
But I always felt like there was a small group of users and it just never got a foothold in companies.
Pivotal is the company whose CEO went to Burning Man and wrote a 100% unironic blog post about how it changed his life right?
I used to self-host a Phabricator instance, which I liked a lot, but the upstream maintainer made the reasonable decision to step away.
My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while higher-complexity use-cases are addressed by enterprise SaaS.
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Looks like it, that's new! I tried Linear quite some time ago and it didn't "stick", I'll have to give it another shot. Thanks for the tip!
Linear is the best project management for software I've ever used, highly recommend. They've added many many amazing features this year... Incredible team over there that are just a joy to work with.
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Its pretty common. I think the difference is its a shutdown with a timeline.
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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.
It forced everyone to ruthlessly prioritize and make the hard decisions.
In this moment, do you want me working on this bug, or this new feature? You have to decide - you get one or the other.
It avoided the "Everything is a high priority" dilemma.
Are there any open source self-hostable tracking/project management tools that still have a committed team and forward momentum? I used to self-host a Phabricator instance, which I liked a lot, but the upstream maintainer made the reasonable decision to step away. My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while…
I was also very fond of Phabricator (all though my team preferred GitHub style pull requests) but I haven't had a need for it recently, so I haven't tried phorge myself.
Unfortunate. 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).
The thing that I always liked about Pivotal is that it was visibly obvious that there was only one queue. It forced everyone to ruthlessly prioritize and make the hard decisions. In this moment, do you want me working on this bug, or this new feature? You have to decide - you get one or the other. It avoided the "Everything is a high priority" dilemma.