Pivotal never issued certifications of the kind you're suggesting and Pivotal Tracker was never the breadwinner for Pivotal. Most of the money came from Labs, data products like RabbitMQ or Greenplum and platform products based Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Today that remains largely true where Pivotal wound up at VMware.
Tracker was made because Pivotal Labs folks needed it and it was opened up to general use because clients asked for it. The idea that the rest of Pivotal's work was a plot to flog Tracker is risible. Ain't nobody gettin' rich selling complex software for $10 a month to the pickiest possible market.
My issue with Tracker was it's horrific spin on what agile is supposed to be and the two instances it was being pushed hard I found extremely problematic. And the cost of partnering with Pivotal overall was ridiculous. Doing things the "pivotal way". Companies were taken for a ride with the idea that they could "outsource" the management and implementation of their software development through their tools. People over Process.
> Companies were taken for a ride with the idea that they could "outsource" the management and implementation of their software development through their tools.
That was never the purpose. Never. I'm sorry you had a bad experience and I apologise for our role in it. But Pivotal was the real thing.
Tracker was made because Pivotal Labs folks needed it and it was opened up to general use because clients asked for it. The idea that the rest of Pivotal's work was a plot to flog Tracker is risible. Ain't nobody gettin' rich selling complex software for $10 a month to the pickiest possible market.