Project management and how we use Trello at CPUsage

I'm trying to get our QC Lab to start using Trello. They get anywhere from 10 to 50 chemicals per day that they need to sample, test, and release. And 3 different departments send them these samples, some on schedule, some as need be. I've thought of putting put a big screen with their Trello todos and showing everyone in the company how they're backlogged or performing on schedule. Anyone have experience with a public read-only Trello board in their offices? What has the reaction been?

How is Trello different from a task list with multiple status values?

e.g.

A shared task list can correspond to a Trello board.

Each task has a status field that can have multiple values (Pending, In Development, Done, In Test, In Beta, In Prod etc). If the list can be grouped by this status field, we have Trello "lists"

Cards are the tasks themselves.

Even Outlook + Sharepoint task list can do this.

Trello is one of those tools that's really powerful but really open ended. It's hard to get started with so it's awesome to see how others use it!

Nice article. I'd add a board for tracking serious customer service issues that come up, including bugs and feature requests.

Great article Jeff. Couldn't do it without Trello.