Boards to alleviate boredom
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
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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
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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
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.