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Increase productivity and improve collaboration with Trello’s boards, lists, and cards.
Bottom Line
Trello is a Kanban tool built to encourage communication across team members and improve your workflow. This application brings transparency to a single project using categorized tasks, to-do-lists, and due dates within one clean interface.
This software allows it’s users to review projects and collaborate in real-time. Trello keeps everyone informed through task assignments, activity log, and email notifications to ensure that nothing gets left behind. Unfortunately, the tool is not very robust and could be seen as a replacement for email due to it’s lack of resource management, scheduling, and reporting. We feel that Trello is a combination of Basecamp’s social media-like interface with Asana’s basic functionality.
The onboarding process and ease of use is unbelievable thanks to a simple layout and instructions! The graphical nature and drag-and-drop functionality is very intuitive. Trello is free flowing and often referred to as a sticky-note filled whiteboard making it easy for anyone pickup (even your mom)!
Trello offers some awesome features such as customizable permissions, the ability to copy boards/cards and create templates for common projects or task, and unlimited file attachments. Their Card Aging Power-Up feature is by far my favorite. This feature enables you to see cards that have not been touched in awhile.
If you’re a start-up this is the tool for you as Trello seems to be geared more towards smaller teams. If you’re looking for a software that your team can grow with, I’m not sure this solution will be able to scale as larger projects with higher volume can become chaotic within the UI.
They offer an impressive free forever plan, however, if you’re looking for more functionality and integrations it’ll cost you. I would recommend reaching out to a Trello rep if you’re wanting to pay on a monthly basis as the pricing is not completely clear on the website.
Trello is a great application that can increase organization amongst projects and team members and improve your overall productivity. If ease of use and basic functionality are your top priorities in a project management software this tool would be great for you.
Pros and cons
- Fast onboarding
- Intuitive interface
- Templates
- Real time updates
- Free forever option
- Agile
- Missing functionality
- Does not scale
- No task dependencies
- No reporting
- No calendar
Pricing
Free
Unlimited boards, members, checklists, and attachments.
Attach files up to 10MB from your computer
Link any file from your Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or OneDrive
One free “Power-Up” per board
Business Class – $9.99/user/month
Unlimited Power-Ups
Unlock third party integration
Attach files up to 250MB
User/teammember control
Priority support
Enterprise – $20.83
Single Sign-On
2-Factor Authentication
Personalized onboarding assistance
File encryption at rest
Contact Info
FAQ
What integrations does the app offer?
- Elegantt
- Slack
- Marker
- G-Suite
- OneDrive
- See more
What customer support options are offered?
- Community
- Documentation
- Training sessions
What languages does App support?
Patrick Rockwell
Founder, TaskReports.com
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Trello boards are really easy to setup and also to use, even people who have never used it can use it’s basic functionalities within minutes.
It’s very easy to get started, and very flexible in allowing you to gather and organize information. Unfortunately, it’s suited for only high level idea and project management.
Good tool to help improve your workflow on small projects.
Great way to stay organized and extremely easy to get started with this app
I like the easy to use interface and the ability to arrange your work in any manner that suits you. You can create and organize as many or as few projects/cards as you want. We’re currently using the free version but find that a lot of the key features we need are with the business class package. I wish they had a little bit more project management functionality within it’s free version.
Trello is a good Kanban tool for agile teams.
This tool has really helped our team keep track of tasks and make sure nothing slips through the cracks.
A lot more advanced features could be added to make this app a better project management software.
It’s definitely worth trying, the learning curve is so low that you’ll figure out pretty quickly if it meets your needs. It’s been so helpful for managing my workload. I would like more templates/structure for cards. I can copy checklists across cards, but have to manually copy and paste text often.
Although Trello keeps you focused on the tasks you need to complete, it lacks visibility into overall progress for multiple projects or portions within a big project.
Kanban boards are perfect for keeping track of what needs to be done, but they become even more powerful when you combine them WITH a Gantt Chart that gives you visibility into the overall plan.
It’s important to provide your team with a tool that everyone can use in their own way, or at least has the function to do so.
Within every project (or non project) there is a logical progression of taking something big (like building a rocket ship), and breaking it into manageable pieces (finding a team of astronauts to fly, building the ship, selecting the fuel, coordinating a projected launch date).
If you were to use Trello to carry out something of that magnitude it wouldn’t be a good choice of a tool because it does not allow visibility of your overall progression, and only the smaller tasks.
But if you were to use Trello as your daily personal planner, or small personal project I think it’s perfect.
For visibility into an overall plan I recommend Projectplace.
Trello is an easy-to-use solution that can get your team collaborating in minutes. Unfortunately, it’s missing advanced project management features to make this solution an effective project management tool.
Great simple, free tool to organize projects in an intuitive way.
I really like the ease of use you get with Trello. It’s easy to add new cards and drag cards from one board to another. Don’t have to be a technical person to pick up the platform. At times the web version sometimes runs a bit slow. I also wish it didn’t take several steps to delete a card.
Trello helps you prioritize your work a little better. Be sure team members are all on the same page when using the platform.
Also, be careful when setting up your notifications..you can be flooded with emails that you may not want to receive.
Easy and quick way to track projects and status. Lacking a way to get a high level overview of all boards.
Helps our team stay on top of things
Trello helps our team to manage the project successfully. It let us assign activities to the team and they can move it to various pipelines based on project status. We have seen a better project management after moving to Trello. I hate that there is no recurring tasks offered on free version.
My team loves using Trello. It’s intuitive and easy to use. However, as our projects get bigger our boards get messier.
It’s very easy to use, and the interactivity between the team is very good.
It lets us communicate with one another and organize projects so it’s clear what’s being worked on and what’s ahead
It’s great for managers to keep track of progress!
Good way to keep track of things
Great project management system!
Trello is very easy to use, and great for keeping track of ideas. I enjoy the ease of use the most about about the tool. Users can easily organize their thoughts and to-do lists. Trello also makes it east to track progress. I would like to be able to customize my boards a bit more, such as more color options. I would also like to be able to have more control over sizing of text boxes.
Start simple with small projects and lists and grow as you become comfortable. Add your team members early to get team buy-in. Be smart about your lists. Too many makes a project too broad. Consider splitting larger projects into separate boards.
It’s clean, it’s fast, it does what you want
There’s a lot to like with Trello. You can make lists for projects and add cards for specific items that need to be done. Each card can be assigned to someone if needed and it’s easy to see who it is assigned to. It is also very simple to move items between lists, just click and drag. Checklists can be added with due dates and status updates can be shared with others. All of this is with the free version of Trello. It’s not the most visually appealing, but maybe I just haven’t played around with it enough to make changes. If you’re not sure how you want to organize your projects and lists, it can be a bit daunting at first.
A good way to manage tasks
Great tool. My team just needs a little more functionality than what they offer right now.
Very easy to use for something I use each and every day
Trello is a good tool for organized people to manage activities across multiple projects.
Great, Needs Some Customizability
Great integration with management platforms via API to have a better visualization on the progress of the project. The features available on free version is a great starting point for any company size. The missing feature to have ‘card templates’ to make it easier to create recurrent tasks.