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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

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Post by bane »

hamidpalo wrote: post #28
andr3a wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's not a simple idea, it's a deep idea refined over decades and implemented simply. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

I work at Trello. We actually don't think of Trello as Kanban. Trello at its core is a collaborative list of lists. You can use Trello to implement a Kanban workflow but Trello is not an implementation of Kanban. A lot of people use Trello for things like to organizing their soccer teams where there isn't a hint of Kanban -- each list could be a game and people add themselves to indicate that they want to play.

Yeah, I and several people I know are regular Trello users and none of use it for Kanban. For us it's just a simple pipelined workflow tracking tool: todo, doing, paused, done

Some people use it for completely non-tech things, a couple I know use it to track their sales pipeline.

It's pretty amazing that there really wasn't something quite as simple made before it, it seems so obvious in retrospect. The implementation is spot on.

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

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Post by DigitalJack »

I like trello and use it for personal stuff occasionally, but the work I do just can't be hosted somewhere else. Legally. So I hate web apps and cloud this, cloud that, mostly because they are no good to me.

The type of work I do would change before the need for controlled local hosting will--in other words it might be that mine line of work will become obsolete or transform so dramatically that the requirement of controlled local hosting is moot. That would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.

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

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Post by wdmeldon »

petenixey wrote: post #61
johnyzee wrote: post #53

Cool to see Fog Creek succeed like this. I've been following Joel for almost fifteen years (the now defunct Fog Creek message boards were some of the best on the internet for a couple of years). From the beginning Joel made a simple assertion: Hire great people, give them a great environment, then sit back and watch them kick ass. He said this before all of this became conventional industry wisdom (and probably playe…

I agree. It's so strange now that I will often make references to Joel or his essays in talks and no-one will know who I'm talking about. I always have to explain that back in the day there were two big software essayists - PG and Joel. No youngsters knows Joel's stuff now - the internet's great at getting you today's news, yesterday's tends to get lost underfoot. Joel if you're listening please come back to blogging…

I entered this industry in February 2012, but his essays have still had a major impact on me as a developer. Part of the credit for this goes to Jeff Atwood, who has retained a lot more visibility than Joel, for frequently linking back to early internet writing.

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

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Post by thatben »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #40
[deleted] wrote: post #11

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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).

Yep, you're right, bad morning, I know better. At least my other account is now dead - just takes one thread!

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

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Post by filmgirlcw »

I love Trello. We use it as our editorial workflow board at Mashable (meaning it is where stories live from assignment (or sometimes conception) to the various editing/publishing phases. We use it to visually see what is publishing next, to see embargos or scheduled posts for different areas and more importantly, to see what everyone else is working on.

To me, that's the hallmark of a good tool: when it can be used in an industry it really wasn't designed for (publishing workflow) as if it was built for that purpose.

Props to Joel and to Trello!

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

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Post by bane »

richardwigley wrote: post #2

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

Yes, heavily.

I keep it simple: Todo, Doing, Paused, Done.

Colors indicate severity and I attach most task assets (documents, proposals, etc.) to the back of each card.

As tasks get done, they move through the pipeline. Some folks I know have an "inReview" list also before "done".

It's pretty simple that way. My only complaint is that when lists get too long it can be kind of a pain to manage them.

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

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Post by T-zex »

Flenser wrote: post #41
vojtech wrote: post #14

Co-founder of Trello Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post about today's news. Worth reading if you're interested in the thinking behind the deal: http://indexventures.com/news-room/news/trello-raises-10m-se...

The original post on his blog has more images: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2014/07/24.html

Thanks for the link. I was concerned, that the top story might not contain a Flat Wight coffee picture.
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