This is my personal review for Trello
August 13, 2019

This is my personal review for Trello

Siddhartha Kathpalia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User

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.
I am not a fan of Trello's UI and look-and-feel.
Never needed Trello support for our use case which was very basic. Trello is easy to understand, another reason why support was never required.
I personally like JIRA much more than Trello because of my time spent on it across organizations and teams. I am aware of JIRA's capabilities which is why I like it more. I really like JIRA's UI especially because of how formal and well-aligned everything is.
Trello is a great tool for project management. You can create as many swimlanes as you want. If you have multiple steps from start to finish, then Trello is great because you can make as many swimlanes. The font and UI are not very formal and not very project-management-ish.

Trello Feature Ratings

Task Management
7
Resource Management
7
Gantt Charts
Not Rated
Scheduling
Not Rated
Workflow Automation
Not Rated
Team Collaboration
8
Support for Agile Methodology
9
Support for Waterfall Methodology
8
Document Management
7
Email integration
Not Rated
Mobile Access
5
Timesheet Tracking
Not Rated
Change request and Case Management
7
Budget and Expense Management
Not Rated
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
6

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