Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
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Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
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#2I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
#3I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
Me and my business partner use it for everything work related.
It's been excellent.
Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
#4I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
Yes, we (at https://codeable.io) use Trello for pretty much all internal (async) communications, from Sprints (user stories) to features, to ideas,...
No learning curve, exactly the right features.
And also there's something I like in Trello that Basecamp (I know comparing apples to oranges, but both can be used for similar purposes) doesn't support: closure. When something is no longer relevant, you archive it and it's gone, no more mental burden. Quite important when you have 100s of tickets.
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#5I 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.
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#6It's incredible how such a simple idea could become so big.
I'm sat here trying to think up some grand scheme that's going to make me my millions. Its a great lesson that really all I need is a simple idea. The key is in the execution. Take that simple idea and develop (and market) it to perfection.
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#7I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
My team tried it several times over the first 1 - 2 years it was out. I have not tried it recently. That said, at that time, we could never get it to stick. It was good for high level stuff, but like all project management software, we ended up constantly working to keep it in sync with reality. This was especially acute when using github because for any stuff that was code-related, we were basically duplicating tickets and tracking in both places. So github tickets were the real source of truth and Trello always lagged. Once that happens, the non-code milestones start to suffer as you start wondering why you're doing all this in the first place.
Tracking issues in github (and we use FogBugz as well) has the benefit of being where the "rubber meets the road", so it's effortless and transparent to keep up to date. Merging non-code tasks (e.g. design work) with code is still something we struggle to track and keep tabs on.
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#8I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
My research lab uses Trello to coordinate on protocols, results, and publications. Each project gets a board, with lists for each step in the process. Cards are used to describe what was done in the processes like a typical lab notebook. Add on comments and file attachments and we can collaborate remotely.
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#9I'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!
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#10Does anyone know how this type of spin out works? I would imagine FogCreek has an ownership stake in the company for "seed funding" Trello with resources.