Pivotal Labs

Pivotal Labs is an agile software development consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company develops Pivotal Tracker workflow software. It is a division of Pivotal Software.

Pivotal Labs
TypeDivision of Pivotal Software
IndustrySoftware development
Founded1989
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Key people
Drew McManus, VP
ProductsPivotal Tracker
Websitepivotal.io/labs
Engineers pairing at Pivotal Labs

History

The company was founded in 1989 by Rob Mee and Sherry Erskine.[1] In 2008 Pivotal Labs released Pivotal Tracker, which is used as their internal project management and collaboration software. That year, Pivotal Tracker won the Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Project Management category.[2] EMC acquired Pivotal Labs, and in March 2013, Pivotal Software was formed after spinning out of EMC and VMware. [3]

In October 2013, Pivotal acquired Toronto-based Xtreme Labs, a mobile app development company.[4]

In December 2019, Pivotal Labs was acquired by VMware. [5]

Products and Services

The company will use pair programming while doing its software development and also consults to other companies to help them use the method.[3] The company has provided consulting programming for several large technology companies in San Francisco.[6]

References
  1. "Pivotal Labs Team". Pivotal Labs.
  2. "Pivotal Labs Wins Prestigious 2008 Jolt Award". newsblaze.com. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  3. Metz, Cade (2013-11-12). "This Company Believes You Should Never Hack Alone". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  4. Swisher, Kara. "In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash". AllThingsD.com. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  5. Miller, Ron. "VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  6. "Twitter brings in big guns from Pivotal Labs to help rebuild its troubled infrastructure". VentureBeat. 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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