farhan

I can't speak for companies that are using those tools internally (you can ask @danpodsedly who's using Pivotal Tracker in-house for example).

I know that for our development projects (www.xtremelabs.com) with F500 companies, we do use Pivotal Tracker and Github, and they are typically ok with it.

Well.. was more thinking of answering any questions you may have :)

I run Engineering at a Pivotal Labs partner, Xtreme Labs (www.xtremelabs.com), so also happy to comment on experiences at my shop.

I run the ExtremeU program (http://bit.ly/WwgJR) and we are in our third week with 3 teams cranking away in our space at Yonge and King (Toronto). They can move fast because they are integrated with our agile development practices at http://www.xtremelabs.com (in the same space), they get expert onsite resources (dev, graphics, etc.), they get connected them with external gurus.

Our weekly speakers have been phenomenal (@ricksegal, @ryazwinski, @albertsupdates), they take questions and are available for help after their talks (which are recorded). I can't wait to bring in the remaining weekly speakers.

I think what Impact is trying to do is amazing. More power to them!

Farhan (@fnthawar)