[asfakeaccount]

I find that Pivotal is pretty opinionated with the workflow you use. Specifically, it is meant for an agile process that is exactly that Pivotal (the consulting group) uses to develop their client products.

[tootie]

Pivotal is extremely opinionated. Seems like people love it or hate it. JIRA is totally unopinionated and is what you make of it. I've had awful JIRA workflows imposed on me and it's the worst. My current company is generous with admin rights so we pick the flow we want for every project and it's great.

[jacques_chester]

Some nitpicks:

* Pivotal Tracker is the SaaS software you're thinking of.

* Pivotal Labs is the agile and lean engineering/design/product/data science consultancy, from which Pivotal Tracker first emerged as a product.

* Pivotal is the parent company formed from Pivotal Labs and other products (notably Cloud Foundry, Spring, Greenplum, Gemfire) several years ago.

Disclaimer: I'm work at Pivotal Labs.

[aptwebapps]

Yeah, Googled and ended up on the main site. Thought they were doing a _really_ bad job of explaining their software for a bit.

[jacques_chester]

Calling Tracker "Pivotal" is pretty common.

My first thought is we should add a "did you mean Tracker?" link somewhere, but that's got problems too. We work on a lot of software.

[jacques_chester]

Disclaimer should of course say "I work at Pivotal Labs".

This is what I get for not pair-posting.