Ouch... I just learned that PivotalTracker will start charging for their online project tracking tool.

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I recognize their right to make money on what I consider to be an excellent tool, but on the other hand, I feel tricked...

I have a bunch of projects that I'm tracking in PivotalTracker and been pushing it where ever I've been consulting. The pricing model is a complete surprise also. a) it is too expensive, b) it doesn't fit the way I've been using PivotalTracker.

Because I've been consulting in many places, I have many collaborators and the price that I would have to pay may be as much as $3600 per year! That's a cost that I had not planned for.

I do apologize to my customers that may have started to use PivotalTracker under the wrong assumptions. I will make an investigation of alternative tools and post it on my blog as soon as I get some time to do the investigation (probably mid February as my schedule is ridiculous at this time).

Anyway, I'll be back with another post with alternatives as soon as I get around to it. Maybe I'll get some people together and build an open source alternative? Please let me know if you're interested.