We use Trello.
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Trello is disarmingly simple and like (early) Twitter, does one thing and it does it really well. This leads to users invent all sorts of use cases for it (again like Twitter).
Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model. Plus with all the cards being visible to everyone by default, the unproductive role-based access measures will be also rid off for good.
A more collaborative model, that we also borrowed from engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System#Common...
The professor, I think a little bitter that it became known as Toyota's always like to say it was an American idea. At the time American auto was fat happy and lazy, not seeing the need to eliminate "muda". William Edwards Deming was trying to get his "lean" ideas across to American auto mfg, but they weren't interested.
He went to Japan/Toyota and and that team is where the Toyota Production System came to be. This is also a major factor in how Japanese autos really kicked the crap out of American for so long. Only once American autos realized how bad they were getting beat up did they finally put an effort into getting lean and started to study the TPS. You can see how long its taken them to (arguably) catch up.
Japan honored his teachings with the naming of their highest manufacturing award: The Deming Prize. A former Deming Prize winner, Yoji Akao taught similar ideas and now that is a high award for American quality, the Akao Prize
Anywho, just thought it was a cool story
Now you know why we like to say kanban and kaizen so much!
But the way I see it, a lot of discipline with be required to 'update' it every now and then. Some thing that I felt will always be a problem with any process. Every time a process like this springs up, I get enthusiastic then the enthusiasm wears away.
So as far as I'm concerned I still feel nothing really beats managing project from a notebook. You can't really get any thing as flexible and a limitless creative tool called pen/pencil on any electronic device. And the ability to just express your ideas as they are on paper is unbeatable.
GTD was life changing. Kanban boards are not.
Unfortunately it was never sold outside of China and was quickly discontinued. Other markets got the Asus PadFone instead, which was more expensive and not nearly as simple as a digital notepad. What you describe (a notebook, with lament over collaboration) could be solved with a well-supported device like the EeeNote. It truly is as flexible and limitlessly creative as a pen and paper [1]. It's a shame Asus never gave it a real try.
We sell tailor made wedding dresses online. We use Trello to control all steps of the order-to-delivery process. Our pre-sales and post-sales teams share the same cards organized by bride name.
You probably wouldn't guess this just from a glance at Trello's UI, which is surprisingly clean and uncluttered. At its core, it's just a bunch of cards on a board (and you can use it as such), but as this article mentions, you can pull in more powerful features like checklists and labels to represent almost any workflow you can think of. It's a surprisingly powerful, modular system.
(PS I'm the founder of Fog Creek, creator of Trello)
That said, if there are things that we can do to increase privacy while still hosting Trello on our own servers, we'll certainly consider those. I never want to commit to any particular feature, but it is not impossible that one day we will provide IP whitelisting (so a given board is only available from approved IPs) or even client-side encryption. I should reiterate that neither of those features are in our near-term plans, but at least they are not completely out of the question. Having been in the downloaded software business for ten years, I can safely say though, that we are never doing that again.
It's unfortunate that there's no meeting in the middle.
As an aside, I suspect a few of the companies who, in the past, could "never" use software that wasn't installed on their own systems are probably using Salesforce now.
P.S We're team of 5 idiots looking for one more :)
(That all said, Asana may have updated their interface since we left.)
You could use different browsers but that is a pain. And even that solution wouldn't work on mobile where you would have to keep logging out and back in again (really tedious, won't get notifications, impossible for users like me who don't even know our passwords as they are stored in a password manager).
This ultimately forces me to use Trello for work (and only one work at that) or personal but not both. In this day and age multiple accounts should really be standard (I'm looking at you Dropbox) but if you can't at least let work pay so I can have a practical personal account too.
I assume Dropbox doesn't allow multiple accounts because it would become a trivial workaround to their storage limits and seriously cut into the number of people they can get to upgrade to the premium version.
But that means the credentials, access logs etc of one account are being used for both work and personal data. If for example the account you use is a work one (using Trello's google account login) then should you leave/be terminated by the company then they will disable/delete that account and now you've lost access to your personal stuff too. The other way around where work grants your personal account access to the organisation boards severely increases the risk as you'll have your personal account tied to more devices and people than a work account. For example it wouldn't be unreasonable to let your spouse know your personal account details, or to have your account also set up on one of their devices, or on shared family computers.
> I assume Dropbox doesn't allow multiple accounts ...
You can actually use multiple accounts - they just don't make it convenient. You can definitely run multiple instances of the dropbox client providing they are setup to have different home directories. This is somewhat trivial on Linux and more difficult on the other platforms. When accessing the dropbox site they have a half hearted attempt at multiple account support, but it is better to login/out and use one account at a time.
What they should do is let you enter multiple accounts in the client software. It is fine if that is only allowed with paid accounts.
I love Trello immensely but the "free forever" aspect worries me about trusting it over the longterm. I've tried to turn my clients onto Trello and have been met with the same skepticism over entrusting an entire business workflow to a free product. Just from a trust perspective, it would honestly put my mind at ease to find out it was making a buck somehow...
While the usual freemium math applies (most users are still free), our customer's response has been phenomenal and subscriptions are now a sustainable business.
That header image: Is it animated when window.onscroll() is fired? I find one reference in the code to e.addEventListener("scroll", v, !1) which I guess then fires the function v which does:
v = function() { var t = parseInt(e.pageYOffset, 10); t = Math.min(u, t), t !== d && (d = t, t > 0 ? f(t * m, 1) : f(t / -6, -1 * t / u + 1), t >= u - 35 ? s(p, E) : i(p, E))
Could someone point me to some unminimized version of this code, I really like it?
@porada, author of the one on http://codetunes.com said he'll post something here.
Also, I'm not quite getting the recommended way of "completing" tasks. Archiving just hides them, which makes it hard to go back and analyze how well you did in that iteration. Right now I'm just dumping everything into a "completed" list, although unless you archive everything that came before in there, you have to manually figure out what was completed in this iteration and what in the ones before. Creating separate "completed" lists for each iteration will probably not scale as it will generate dozens of lists you'll have to archive and filter through every time you're looking for something.
We use Jira at work with a slew of plugins on top and our own custom processes, and it's AWFUL. It's complicated, there are different projects with different flows, ticket types, statuses, etc. The way we have it set up right now, you can't even move tickets into/out of a sprint once it's started!
I'm not railing on Jira though; I'm not even sure I know how "stock" Jira behaves. But I do think it's interesting that Jira and Trello expose their flexibility in totally different ways.
It was such a refreshing change from the Project -> To-Do List arrangement of, well, pretty much every web based project management software up until that point.