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Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#31

We would use Trello if they added two things: 1) simple way to delete a card, list, or board (not this archive nonsense) 2) multiple lists in a column

Stacked lists are my top request. I still use Trello with the default To-Do, Doing, Done lists. I wish I could group the To-Dos by different lists instead of labels.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#33
That's great!

Trello is one of those apps that you can dismiss too fast because you think it doesn't do enough, but which to come back to because everything else is too complex. I've been using it extensively, and it has almost gone viral around me. As in, every time someone needs to manage a project, I hear "Hey, what was this simple project management software you told me you're using for everything you do?", and there comes a new Trello user.

I even remember using it for managing my own time when I was working for a large Japanese company that was using excel spreadsheets to manage projects, so I could have a clear interface and use a quick and dirty piece of JS I wrote to generate the sacrosanct Daily Reports I was asked to provide.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#34
post #5

I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?

I've used it when needed (i.e. someone picks that to get started), but honestly Pivotal Tracker is the same thing with more features and even crusty old JIRA has an agile board view option it nowadays where you can drag card versions of the JIRAs around. So Trello is kind of an also-ran that doesn't compare well with the current leader or the industry standard.

JIRA's Kanban board integrates poorly with the rest of JIRA. And you need to define a workflow first. You typically wind up allowing any transition, in which case: what did it get you?

I greatly prefer Tracker, but I would. I work at Pivotal Labs. Everything in Tracker is inspired by how we work and it makes perfect sense in our context.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#35

We would use Trello if they added two things: 1) simple way to delete a card, list, or board (not this archive nonsense) 2) multiple lists in a column

I completely agree with your first point. Being able to actually delete boards would be great, rather than having 5 archived boards.

I disagree with your second, but am genuinely interested as to why you might want this.

The idea is with Trello and other kanban systems is you move tasks from the left to the right. If your intent was to create another type of transition, you're breaking the underlying concept. If your intent is to break up a single list into multiple small lists for organisation, could you use something like colour coding instead?

edit: have just read further down that they don't intend for it to be a strict Kanban system, so perhaps there's room for multiple lists in a column. I'm still interested in your specific problem though!

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#36

We would use Trello if they added two things: 1) simple way to delete a card, list, or board (not this archive nonsense) 2) multiple lists in a column

1. You can delete. Not on Trello right now but I think it's listed under 'more options'.

You're able to delete individual cards, but you can't delete a board – even if it's empty.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#37

I've been using Trello daily for over a year now to keep track of projects and tasks at work, and it has been great. While I sometimes freak out that Trello alone holds my work to-do list (instead of nice, safe paper and pen), I have yet to experience any significant downtime or lost data. Good luck to them!

You can export your data via their API. Here's one script for it: https://github.com/mattab/trello-backup

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

#40
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You're being downvoted because you're not adding anything to the conversation.

If you have _specific_ things you dislike about Trello, or advice for people to make it look more how you'd like, then _that_ would be something that people would be interested in (and vote up).

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