![]() Trello is even used by lawyers to prepare cases.ĬEO of Trello, Joel Spolsky compares it to his experience working on excel saying, “Trello is for anything where you want to maintain a list of lists with a group of people”. ![]() You can apply Trello to your grocery store list, home improvement projects and business tasks. The same way that Kanban developed from grocery stores, to car manufacturing, to software development. You can shape it to whatever project you have at hand. It’s a pretty stellar application in that way. How Hubstaff Uses Trello to Manage Workflowįor the purposes of this post we are going to talk about how we use Trello, but it’s important to keep in mind that Trello has virtually limitless possibilities. Today over 4 million people are using Trello to get things done. Their goal was to create a product that would help solve age-old, high level planning issues. That’s probably where the Trello founders were coming from when they launched Trello at TechCrunch in 2011. The Kanban system works because people process visual information 60,000 times faster than text! ![]() Today, the Kanban method has established itself as an effective and agile means of getting stuff done whether it’s in manufacturing, software development or marketing. Generally, Kanban boards involve “to do”, “in progress” and “completed”. It involves organizing projects by workflow. Kanban comes from the Japanese word meaning board and was popularized by Toyota (but stolen from the supermarket industry) as a way to improve the manufacturing process. If we want to be specific, Trello really isn’t a bulletin board at all, it is a Kanban board (you may have seen this being labeled as “scrum” on HBO’s Silicon Valley). Today, excuses are still a part of doing business, but we’ve seen a complete 180 on the amount of excuses that are project management or workflow related. We have a strict “No Excuses” ( Here’s a free book we wrote on how we manage) policy at Hubstaff, yet 9 months ago we had long email threads full of them. Until we started using Trello 8 months ago, we were plagued by them. You’ll assign something to Person A, ask about it a few weeks later and they’ll say, “I didn’t realize that was a priority”. Person A will blame person B, and Person C will say they couldn’t do their job because they were waiting on Person A. No matter how many meetings you have or plans you write up, someone will always be confused about who is responsible for what. If you own a business or have been part of a business, you know what we are talking about. Since the dawn of time, workflow and project management have been befuddling almost any group of people trying to accomplish anything. It takes something classic and adapts it to the wonderful world of technology, creating a tool that is helping streamline modern businesses everywhere. I think that’s why, when it comes to project management we are such fans of Trello. Bulletin boards have helped bring people together for a long time. They’re simple, they’re visual and they work. You can easily see what’s going on, what other people are up to, communicate with people who aren’t around you, and remind people of stuff. ![]() Sometimes even when it comes to technology the best ways of doing things are the old fashioned ones. ![]()
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