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We use Trello.
- mikeg8 14y agoIf 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...
- jonheller 14y agoI love Trello, and have been using it since it was first publicly available. It was such a refreshing change from the Project -> To-Do List arrangement of, well, pretty much every web based project management software up until that point.
- Davertron 14y agoI would love to try using Trello at work. I use it for my own personal projects just to keep track of stuff. We use Jira at work with a slew of plugins on top and our own custom processes, and it's AWFUL. It's complicated, there are different projects with different flows, ticket types, statuses, etc. The way we have it set up right now, you can't even move tickets into/out of a sprint once it's started! I'm not railing on Jira though; I'm not even sure I know how "stock" Jira behaves. But I do think it's interesting that Jira and Trello expose their flexibility in totally different ways.
- talmir 14y agoI use Trello at home and Jira at work. I like both, and rather think they are both pretty intuitive :)
- Davertron 14y agoI think normal Jira seems like it's just like every other bug tool I've ever used (trac, bugzilla, etc.), but where I work every single project has been customized differently.
- ClementM 14y agoSeeing your site for the first time ('codetunes.com'), and I love your visuals. They rock. Congrats to your graphic artist !
- szymo 14y agoThank you!
- akurilin 14y agoI loved Pivotal Tracker's user story "weight" feature where you couldn't assign more than x points worth of work to your team in a certain iteration, based on past velocity, as it simply wouldn't fit and spill over to the backlog. Is anything like that available in Trello as well? From what I've seen, you have to count the amount of work by hand. Also, I'm not quite getting the recommended way of "completing" tasks. Archiving just hides them, which makes it hard to go back and analyze how well you did in that iteration. Right now I'm just dumping everything into a "completed" list, although unless you archive everything that came before in there, you have to manually figure out what was completed in this iteration and what in the ones before. Creating separate "completed" lists for each iteration will probably not scale as it will generate dozens of lists you'll have to archive and filter through every time you're looking for something.
- xijuan 14y agoMy friend just introduced me to trello last week! And I really love this app! I use it for personal life too and put down things I want to say to my friends and share it with them.
- pkorzeniewski 14y agoI like the idea of splitting workflow into two boards, currently for every project I have one board and it can get clumsy with a lot of cards and lists.
- melicerte 14y agoDoes anyone knows what is Trello business model? I always enjoy seeing "free forever" but, you know, only a few things really are free.
- mattvot 14y agoYes, I was going to ask this too. Their tour page says "Trello is free, now and forever.". Call me a skeptic, but I don't see that holding true unless they have some money to keep it running.
- gecko 14y agoThat would better be phrased as, "any features that are currently free, stay free." Of course we're working on adding paid features to Trello; see spolsky's replies elsewhere in this thread, or my comment history, for more details.
- Kiro 14y agoIt's created by Fog Creek and I believe their other products bring in enough money to keep Trello free.
- neilkelty 14y agoThat leaves no incentive to keep running Trello.
- xijuan 14y agoOh yeah. I had wondered that too. Maybe they will be like dropbox and Evernote in the future. People can pay money to get the premium version with more features and space.
- gecko 14y agoThat's not quite what we have in mind, but it's close. Basically, any features that are currently free, stay free. Some new features in the pipe will not be.
- etrinh 14y agoOne of the areas where Trello really excels is representing agile workflows, as evidenced by the many organizations that use Trello for internal organization. That said, I think Trello's biggest strength is the huge amount of flexibility you get to develop and experiment with a system of organization that you're comfortable with. You probably wouldn't guess this just from a glance at Trello's UI, which is surprisingly clean and uncluttered. At its core, it's just a bunch of cards on a board (and you can use it as such), but as this article mentions, you can pull in more powerful features like checklists and labels to represent almost any workflow you can think of. It's a surprisingly powerful, modular system.
- pkorzeniewski 14y agoI agree completely, I've tried many project management apps and the main problem I had with them was the lack of flexibility - each had their own idea how project management should look and you didn't have a lot to say. Trello on the other hand really allows you to adjust the workflow to team and project needs, the concept is both simple and powerful.
- janto 14y agoDoes anyone know how this compares to, say, AgileZen? I have only superficially used both.
- arocks 14y agoWe 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" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model. Plus with all the cards being visible to everyone by default, the unproductive role-based access measures will be also rid off for good.
- kamaal 14y agoTrello is great, I feel it will greatly influence teams which require collaboration and status tracking. But the way I see it, a lot of discipline with be required to 'update' it every now and then. Some thing that I felt will always be a problem with any process. Every time a process like this springs up, I get enthusiastic then the enthusiasm wears away. So as far as I'm concerned I still feel nothing really beats managing project from a notebook. You can't really get any thing as flexible and a limitless creative tool called pen/pencil on any electronic device. And the ability to just express your ideas as they are on paper is unbeatable. GTD was life changing. Kanban boards are not.
- Davertron 14y agoThat's all fine and good if you're the only person working on the project, but when you have multiple people involved, you need something more than a notebook.
- freehunter 14y agoI have, use, and love my digital note pad, the Asus EeeNote. While it was only sold in China and has since long been discontinued, it is an amazing device for me and tracking my life and my projects. What the device is basically boils down to a Wacom digitizer laid over a black and white screen with a Linux kernel powering the backend (and Qt powering the front-end). While it was still supported, it offered automatic uploads of your files to Evernote, though it has not been updated since Evernote changed their sign-in process so this no longer works. It does have a micro SD card slot and an incredibly old version of Firefox (Firefox 2 I think). Since it is a Wacom tablet, you can rest your hands on the screen all you want, and the screen is textured so it feels almost like writing on paper. It can also be plugged into a PC and act as a Wacom digitizer on your screen for Photoshop, OneNote, or anything else you need to use a pen for. Unfortunately it was never sold outside of China and was quickly discontinued. Other markets got the Asus PadFone instead, which was more expensive and not nearly as simple as a digital notepad. What you describe (a notebook, with lament over collaboration) could be solved with a well-supported device like the EeeNote. It truly is as flexible and limitlessly creative as a pen and paper [1]. It's a shame Asus never gave it a real try. [1] http://i.imgur.com/tYQlX1C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tYQlX1C.jpg
- Rovanion 14y agoCompletely 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 unminimized version of this code, I really like it?
- pytrin 14y agoThe 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.
- bartoszpietrzak 14y agoThere's an out of the box solution (that lacks the performance of ours, unfortunately): http://stephband.info/jparallax/ http://stephband.info/jparallax/ @porada, author of the one on http://codetunes.com http://codetunes.com said he'll post something here.
- porada 14y agoHi, I’m the guy who wrote the code. Here’s a gist for you: https://gist.github.com/porada/5047435 https://gist.github.com/porada/5047435