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Re: We use Trello.

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Post by bartoszpietrzak »

akshxy wrote: post #16
spolsky wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We plan to offer add-on and premium services that might be of use to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello already. For example you could imagine that large corporations that already have Trello throughout their organization might be happy to pay for centralized administration utilities. (PS I'm the founder of Fog Creek, creator of Trello)

Our team was about to migrated to Trello from Asana, but somehow we kept using Asana. I've heard similar stories recently where Trello is not that useful for startups but excellent for large corporations. One can expect what could be there future business model. P.S We're team of 5 idiots looking for one more :)

We're not a large organisation - we have 16 people in the team and various clients using Trello and, as you can see in the post, it's a perfect tool for our us.

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by pytrin »

Rovanion wrote: post #20

Completely off topic: That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does: v = function() { var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10); t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E)) Could someone point me to some u…

The effect is achieved by having a div with a specified height pushing down the article. As you scroll down the div naturally moves up with the rest of the content. The scroll event adjusts the position of the background image on that div, relative to the amount of scroll, until it stops when it goes off the screen.

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by __alexs »

arocks wrote: post #18

We have been using Trello for about two months and it is amazing how even the non-technical users could now finally "visualize" the project life cycle. Trello is disarmingly simple and like (early) Twitter, does one thing and it does it really well. This leads to users invent all sorts of use cases for it (again like Twitter). Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" min…

> Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model.

A more collaborative model, that we also borrowed from engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System#Common...

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by bartoszpietrzak »

Rovanion wrote: post #20

Completely off topic: That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does: v = function() { var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10); t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E)) Could someone point me to some u…

There's an out of the box solution (that lacks the performance of ours, unfortunately): http://stephband.info/jparallax/

@porada, author of the one on http://codetunes.com said he'll post something here.

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by rogerbinns »

spolsky wrote: post #8
melicerte wrote: post #4

Does anyone knows what is Trello business model? I always enjoy seeing "free forever" but, you know, only a few things really are free.

We plan to offer add-on and premium services that might be of use to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello already. For example you could imagine that large corporations that already have Trello throughout their organization might be happy to pay for centralized administration utilities. (PS I'm the founder of Fog Creek, creator of Trello)

One big problem with Trello at the moment is that it doesn't support multiple accounts (in the same way as Google do for example). I saw an interview somewhere claiming you use Trello for both personal and work stuff, and can't figure out how unless you use one account for both which is very bad practise.

You could use different browsers but that is a pain. And even that solution wouldn't work on mobile where you would have to keep logging out and back in again (really tedious, won't get notifications, impossible for users like me who don't even know our passwords as they are stored in a password manager).

This ultimately forces me to use Trello for work (and only one work at that) or personal but not both. In this day and age multiple accounts should really be standard (I'm looking at you Dropbox) but if you can't at least let work pay so I can have a practical personal account too.

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by _sv3a »

Rovanion wrote: post #20

Completely off topic: That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does: v = function() { var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10); t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E)) Could someone point me to some u…

Hi, I’m the guy who wrote the code. Here’s a gist for you: https://gist.github.com/porada/5047435

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by rschmitty »

__alexs wrote: post #23
arocks wrote: post #18

We have been using Trello for about two months and it is amazing how even the non-technical users could now finally "visualize" the project life cycle. Trello is disarmingly simple and like (early) Twitter, does one thing and it does it really well. This leads to users invent all sorts of use cases for it (again like Twitter). Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" min…

> Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model. A more collaborative model, that we also borrowed from engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System#Common...

Man TPS... been a while. While studying mechanical engineering in college we learned about TPS in an industrial system's engineering class.

The professor, I think a little bitter that it became known as Toyota's always like to say it was an American idea. At the time American auto was fat happy and lazy, not seeing the need to eliminate "muda". William Edwards Deming was trying to get his "lean" ideas across to American auto mfg, but they weren't interested.

He went to Japan/Toyota and and that team is where the Toyota Production System came to be. This is also a major factor in how Japanese autos really kicked the crap out of American for so long. Only once American autos realized how bad they were getting beat up did they finally put an effort into getting lean and started to study the TPS. You can see how long its taken them to (arguably) catch up.

Japan honored his teachings with the naming of their highest manufacturing award: The Deming Prize. A former Deming Prize winner, Yoji Akao taught similar ideas and now that is a high award for American quality, the Akao Prize

Anywho, just thought it was a cool story

Now you know why we like to say kanban and kaizen so much!

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by kurtfunai »

Rovanion wrote: post #20

Completely off topic: That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does: v = function() { var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10); t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E)) Could someone point me to some u…

Also regarding the header... that background image is just fantastic. Is there a wallpaper version?

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by mikeg8 »

If you are new to Trello, my biggest piece of advice (echoing the post) it to use mentions! Mentions have been critical for our team. The first month, we just assigned people to cards and assumed they would see all comments/changes to that card but it wasn't so. Trello has been amazing and we are still finding new things we love. My biggest request for the future would be time-tracking. They allow 3rd parties like Harvest to leverage their API for building extensions but Harvest pricing doesn't seem scalable to us and we haven;t found another solution that integrates well...

Re: We use Trello.

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Post by spolsky »

rogerbinns wrote: post #25
spolsky wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We plan to offer add-on and premium services that might be of use to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello already. For example you could imagine that large corporations that already have Trello throughout their organization might be happy to pay for centralized administration utilities. (PS I'm the founder of Fog Creek, creator of Trello)

One big problem with Trello at the moment is that it doesn't support multiple accounts (in the same way as Google do for example). I saw an interview somewhere claiming you use Trello for both personal and work stuff, and can't figure out how unless you use one account for both which is very bad practise. You could use different browsers but that is a pain. And even that solution wouldn't work on mobile where you wou…

Even with one account, you can put all your work-related boards in an organization and keep them separate from your personal boards that way. It's not exactly the same as the way Google does it.

I assume Dropbox doesn't allow multiple accounts because it would become a trivial workaround to their storage limits and seriously cut into the number of people they can get to upgrade to the premium version.

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