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Tickets: anything. Prefer redmine. Ok with Pivotal Tracker. Can use Jira, etc.
Collaboration: hipchat, skype, email, text, tickets, commit messages, and phone calls. Oh, and going out to lunch together.
Tried and liked Trello (simple). Tried and disliked Asana (complicated).
Why are there so many of these tools but none of them truly nail it? Asana, Sprintly, Pivotal, Trello, Basecamp, the list goes on. Plus there's Google Docs. I wonder why there isn't a general consensus about one must-have tool. Are they all watered down and so general that no one can really fall in love with any of the products?
One of the cool things I've seen people use Zapier for is to test out other collab tools ( https://zapier.com/zapbook/asana/trello/ ). You can test out Trello for a week by piping in data from Asana without the fear of losing a weeks worth of data in Asana if you don't like Trello.
However, would decent if they allowed selective Dropbox permissions (eg limited to a single folder). It's disturbing when startups (even a single individual/founder) has access to all my private data. It's not necessary most of the time either.
"Please trust us" seems suboptimal.
We've put up the Trello board on a big screen in the office and after some tweaking (eg. cutting the tasks in smaller bits) it's amazing how productivity rose, just because people are pushing the enveloppe for getting a ticket from the left to the right.
Also for a workflow of a ticket having several states (planned, in progress, done, reviewed, pushed, live), and going back and forth a lot, we just didn't find a nice way to do this in asana, without having lots of projects with several sub-lists, having to reconsider the workflow again and again, etc.
Asana looks more promising to me, when used in bigger companies (20+), having several departements, using there own projects or workspaces, with their own flows and way of working.
Right now I use Asana to manage everything personally, but I use Trello to manage our company. If it was up to me I would like to do everything in Asana. I would like to see Asana give mobile a good shot. Right now they have a 2-star iPhone app and no Android app. Trello on the other hand as both iPhone and Android apps, and they are work pretty well.
One feature I really like about Asana is that it can sync your tasks to your favorite calendar app without any fuss. This feature makes Asana perfect for managing personal tasks with ease. Both services are mature but still have some way to go.
From my point of view, I see Trello better suited for managing a team project, while I see Asana better suited for handling personal tasks and projects. Trello allows you to assign multiple members to one card (task, depends on how you used it), while in Asana you can assign only one person to a task and followers get an update. Trello does a great job of providing the big picture of a project and its progress throug…
Asana had constant issues with syncing the data.
We use Trello at work. We use it as a ticketing system/issue tracker, to-do list, and workflow system. I think it is great as far as it goes. It's got a great visual design, it's very simple and free-form. Frankly however it forces too many decisions on me. I don't want to have to think about all the things that you're required to think about. It's a bit too free-form. Tickets and issues and all that isn't something…
I work on projects on a pretty small scale (5 website, 1 or 2 of them need changes at a time -- some of them have 30 tickets, some have 3 or 4) and trello is perfect for me. If I fullscreen it I can get a good 'at a glance' look at everything i'm working on, and I have a colour code I use on labels to set the importance on projects. I feel like trello has a certain tipping point for tickets :: at a certain point, its…
My major plus points for it is how it automagically calculates velocity and adjusts the following user story schedule accordingly. I'm not a big fan of the right-to-left panel layout, but it's not a deal breaker. It makes my life easier, which is what I want in a software package.
I love the design of Trello and could possibly move to that, but I'd miss the scheduling/velocity/estimating features. Also, some projects have a ton of stories and feel that Trello would be unwieldy. I have used Trello for personal to-do list type stuff though.
From my point of view, I see Trello better suited for managing a team project, while I see Asana better suited for handling personal tasks and projects. Trello allows you to assign multiple members to one card (task, depends on how you used it), while in Asana you can assign only one person to a task and followers get an update. Trello does a great job of providing the big picture of a project and its progress throug…