Easy and approachable to use yet surprisingly robust
March 22, 2016
Easy and approachable to use yet surprisingly robust
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Trello
Trello is primarily used by our digital, creative, and marketing teams. It provides one collaboration space for all teams to share files and track our workflow for ongoing projects. In some cases we also give external third party partners access to a particular Trello board so they can also view information and download assets/documents.
- Collaborating on shared tasks. Divide and conquer and track progress all in one Trello card.
- Asset/document sharing. Raw assets can be stored in one standardized area.
- Notifications when certain tasks have been updated/completed.
- The user interface is different from most other software so it can take some getting used to.
- User management is not as robust as we'd like. We wish user accounts would tie to a major corporate user account software.
- Search results are not as detailed as we'd like. They take you to a specific card but they do not highlight the specific item within a large card that was matched.
- More efficient project collaboration.
- Single standardized workspace for multiple project teams.
- Simplified communication with the entire team because all communication is tracked, timestamped, and saved within the Trello cards.
- Task checklists and status bars have allowed us to get more done faster because it's clear what has/hasn't been completed and who has been assigned each task.
- Asana and JIRA Software
We've found that Trello is our preferred tool to use compared to the competitors. Asana would be second place. Trello has the easiest to use interface, is attractive, has a lot of intuitive features, and has been a reliable collaboration tool. Asana has a lot of similar features but is more task-based than project/card-based so I think Trello is better suited for our organization that has multiple collaborators all working against the same common project goal. Trello has been known as the gold standard for agile project management and I feel that is an accurate assessment in my experience using it.