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Kanban Tool vs Pivotal Tracker: What are the differences?
What is Kanban Tool? Visually manage your work. Kanban Tool is an intuitive solution used for visual project management and process work flow management with seamless time tracking and time reports. It allows to visualize workflow, manage tasks and projects with online Kanban boards and cards.
What is Pivotal Tracker? Build better software, faster. Collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.
Kanban Tool and Pivotal Tracker can be categorized as "Agile Project Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kanban Tool are:
- Kanban board
- Kanban analytics: CFD, Lead and Cycle Time, Breakdown chart
- Time tracking
On the other hand, Pivotal Tracker provides the following key features:
- Tracker Story- simple story editing and drag-and-drop prioritization
- Velocity and Emergent Iterations- Tracker calculates future iterations automatically, based on historical performance.
- Release and Scope Management- Completion dates are calculated automatically, based on velocity - your live measure of historical performance. See impact on scope as new stories are added immediately, and move stories around easily via drag and drop as priorities change.
"Very intuitive and integrates with a lot of apps" is the primary reason why developers consider Kanban Tool over the competitors, whereas "Agile" was stated as the key factor in picking Pivotal Tracker.
Pros of Kanban Tool
- Time tracking and time report + my work widget7
- Great for staying on top of the work, love it7
- Ease of use and endless customization7
- Very intuitive and integrates with a lot of apps7
- Advanced but easy to use tool4
- Simple visual project management4
- Simple interface combined with a perfect functionality1
- Big impact on collaboration between employees1
- Intuitive, user-friendly tool1
- Great at work and at home1
- Integrated application for your phone for free1
- The best tool1
- Multifunctional and very useful1
- It's efficient and easy to use1
- It helps me a lot to organize my daily tasks1
- Very useful tool, easy to use1
- Sense of control over my tasks1
- Project time tracking1
- User-friendly interface1
- Easy to manage visual tool- I enjoy my to do's1
- Developer Tools Power-Up and API1
- Provides elaborate analysis1
Pros of Pivotal Tracker
- Agile73
- Easy to use58
- Nice UI51
- Scrum friendly37
- Simple estimation27
- Slack Integration22
- Velocity13
- Great support9
- Easy setup9
- It does the estimation better than we humans7
- Nice ios app3
- The right kind of simplicity2
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Cons of Kanban Tool
Cons of Pivotal Tracker
- Can't seem to change the number of total points2