Based on the Kanban methodology commonly used in agile development, Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects using boards, lists, and cards to enable prioritization of tasks. With little previous exposure to the tool, our group decided to use Trello as a project management tool for our course project. Having had some experience with Kanban boards using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, and as a life-long list maker, the concept of boards, lists, and cards was familiar. After registering with a free account, a short tutorial demonstrated setting up and using boards. It was simple to create a team board, invite members, and begin outlining project tasks. We decided to use To-Do, Doing, and Done lists to begin and added lists for Meetings, Discussions and Email Addresses (although we realized this was not required as Subscribing to lists allows automatic emails to be sent when updates are made). Populating lists with appropriate cards required collaboration and agreement on the desired level of detail to track tasks. The elegance of using the application is that each member can create and manage their own cards. However, it helps to have at least one member following the tasks from a high level perspective to ensure the tasks meet the overall requirements. To do that, cards can be created to hold checklists including requirements for a related group of tasks. (e.g. the project rubric, and “Build Presentation”). Checklist items in this "parent" card became individual task cards that could be assigned to team members.
The group quickly embraced the at-a-glance collaborative features of Trello. Once we discovered that we could easily connect by adding comments to cards and share resources, it became our main communication channel. Over the course of the project, the tool helped us stay on track and we were able to visibly see our progress as we watched the “Done” list lengthen while the “To-Do” list shortened – before the project deadline.
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