This is my personal review for Trello
Overall Satisfaction with Trello
My usage of Trello happened with the Marketing team. Trello was being used to track all ideas and tasks across swimlanes to identify progress and status. Trello is a great tool for project management. But just like any tool, the way it is used is very important. It's important to know the different steps involved in your process(es) and have swimlanes created as per the steps. The last swimlane should indicate "completed and live". Unfortunately, our implementation was quite poor. We had many many swimlanes, not arranged progressively, making each swimlane redundant. Another poor usage was the fact that we had multiple Trello boards. While there was one for the whole team, there were also manager-reporter Trello boards. This made the open project management factor disappear in entirety. Moreover, we did not use Trello consistently. Keeping our own usage aside, I don't really like Trello's UI. I think a 2D version would do better than a 3D version. Also, the fonts are very casual, while project management isn't.
Pros
- Make as many swimlanes as you want.
- Commenting and making a thread on a card is quite convenient.
- You can add background images to your Trello board.
Cons
- UI is too casual.
- The font is too casual.
- We were not the best users of Trello, therefore cannot attribute an ROI.
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