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Pivotal Tracker vs Trello: What are the differences?

## Key differences between Pivotal Tracker and Trello

Pivotal Tracker and Trello are two popular project management tools that offer different features and functionalities. Here are some key differences between the two:

1. **User Interface**: Pivotal Tracker has a more structured and detailed interface, focused on Agile development practices, while Trello offers a more visually appealing and flexible Kanban board layout.
2. **Workflow Automation**: Pivotal Tracker provides built-in automation features like story prioritization and velocity tracking, whereas Trello relies on third-party integrations like Butler for workflow automation.
3. **Reporting and Analytics**: Pivotal Tracker offers robust reporting capabilities including burndown charts and velocity reports, whereas Trello's reporting features are limited and usually require Power-Ups for advanced analytics.
4. **Collaboration Tools**: Trello excels in collaboration with features like comments, file attachments, and team-wide communication boards, while Pivotal Tracker focuses more on task management and progress tracking within the team.
5. **Customization Options**: Trello allows for extensive customization options with Power-Ups and custom fields, enabling users to tailor their boards to specific workflows, whereas Pivotal Tracker has a more rigid structure with fewer customization choices.
6. **Price**: Pivotal Tracker offers a free plan for small teams and startups, with affordable pricing tiers for larger organizations, while Trello offers a freemium model with limited features in the free version and various pricing plans with additional features for paid users.

In Summary, Pivotal Tracker and Trello differ in user interface design, workflow automation, reporting capabilities, collaboration tools, customization options, and pricing models.
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I'm comparing Aha!, Trello and Asana. We are looking for it as a Product Management Team. Jira handles all our development and storyboard etc. This is for Product Management for Roadmaps, Backlogs, future stories, etc. Cost is a factor, as well. Does anyone have a comparison chart of Pros and Cons? Thank you.

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Max Stuart
Technical Project Manager at ShelterTech · | 6 upvotes · 214.7K views
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I just switched to ClickUp for my development agency - I am the product team, and I relay everything there betwixt designers, devs, and clients.

Clickup = Jira + Confluence but better - more ways to slice and dice your data & documents, make custom views, mind map relationships, and track people's work, plan goals... I even use it to manage project finances and household to-dos.

They have a very comprehensive free tier that never expires, and on top of that they're extremely generous with trials of their paid features, have more-than-fair pricing, and top-notch customer support.

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Samriddhi Sinha
Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · | 10 upvotes · 100.4K views

Notion's novelty according to me is the fact that everything can be a potential document. Notion's as a product has two very contrasting features. One as a hybrid document editor that combines the goodness of Markdown of Dropbox Paper with a more extensive set of formatting blocks. The second as a task manager and an organizer like. Trello.

Every table on Notion can have multiple views saved for previews with different filters, sorting and table style applied. Also, elements in a table can also be a page making it easier to have a Kanban-style sub-task manager for a particular subtask on a Kanban board for your project.

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Ivan Begtin
Director - NGO "Informational Culture" / Ambassador - OKFN Russia at Infoculture · | 5 upvotes · 212.8K views

Both Asana and Trello support Kanban style project tracking. Trello is Kanban-only project management, knowledge management, actually card-management tools. Asana is much more complex, supports different project management approaches, well integrated and helpful for any style/type project.

We choose Asana finally, but still some projects kept in Trello

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Abhay Vashishtha

Procezo is an excellent free-for-life task managing tool with several benefits. Its clear, user-friendly interface is perfect for small businesses and startups as well as enterprise-level use. It makes it a seamless transition from any other project management tools. Its simple but effective layout allows new users to quickly adapt to its ever-expanding set of features. Procezo allows users to create boards and provide access to users or teams as required, set priority and precedence of the task and allowing for subtasks and discussions to be created. With unlimited tasks, users, projects and free support, Procezo is quickly making its way into businesses from across the world and the ultimate growth hack tool.

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I loved Slack. We used it for discussion. But somehow, it was always difficult to get things done. HeySpace is what replaced Slack and Trello as it combines the functionality of both tools.

So, now we keep on discussing as we did on slack, but once we to a point where we want to do something, we create tasks on a board and distribute them.

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Ram Kumar
CTO, Architect at Sarvasv.in · | 2 upvotes · 165.8K views

trello has a much simpler interface and easy to learn for any team member. asana might have more features and configuration options but do you really need a complex system for developers to manage tasks?

After Microsoft took over trello, it has become more restricted these days but still good for startups.

Keep it simple! Focus on your product, not tools.

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Pros of Pivotal Tracker
Pros of Trello
  • 74
    Agile
  • 59
    Easy to use
  • 51
    Nice UI
  • 37
    Scrum friendly
  • 28
    Simple estimation
  • 23
    Slack Integration
  • 13
    Velocity
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 9
    Great support
  • 7
    It does the estimation better than we humans
  • 3
    Nice ios app
  • 3
    The right kind of simplicity
  • 715
    Great for collaboration
  • 628
    Easy to use
  • 573
    Free
  • 375
    Fast
  • 347
    Realtime
  • 237
    Intuitive
  • 215
    Visualizing
  • 169
    Flexible
  • 126
    Fun user interface
  • 83
    Snappy and blazing fast
  • 30
    Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way
  • 27
    Kanban
  • 21
    Clean Interface
  • 18
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Card Structure
  • 17
    Drag and drop attachments
  • 11
    Simple
  • 10
    Markdown commentary on cards
  • 9
    Lists
  • 9
    Integration with other work collaborative apps
  • 8
    Satisfying User Experience
  • 8
    Cross-Platform Integration
  • 7
    Recognizes GitHub commit links
  • 6
    Easy to learn
  • 5
    Great
  • 4
    Better than email
  • 4
    Versatile Team & Project Management
  • 3
    and lots of integrations
  • 3
    Trello’s Developmental Transparency
  • 3
    Effective
  • 2
    Easy
  • 2
    Powerful
  • 2
    Agile
  • 2
    Easy to have an overview of the project status
  • 2
    flexible and fast
  • 2
    Simple and intuitive
  • 1
    Name rolls of the tongue
  • 1
    Customizable
  • 1
    Email integration
  • 1
    Personal organisation
  • 1
    Nice
  • 1
    Great organizing (of events/tasks)
  • 0
    Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects

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Cons of Pivotal Tracker
Cons of Trello
  • 2
    Can't seem to change the number of total points
  • 5
    No concept of velocity or points
  • 4
    Very light native integrations
  • 2
    A little too flexible

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What is Pivotal Tracker?

It is a collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.

What is Trello?

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

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