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Trello

Overview

What is Trello?

Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and…

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Pricing

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Business Class

$12.50

Cloud
per user/per month

Enterprise

$17.50

Cloud
per user/per month

Free

Forever Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Learn How to Use Trello - Beginner's Tutorial

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Trello Widget Demo

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Trello Project Management Demo

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HOW to use TRELLO | ULTIMATE TRELLO TUTORIAL 2021 [Project Management Software for BEGINNERS]

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

9
Avg 7.6

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

5.6
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is Trello?

Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.

Trello Videos

Trello - A Quick Overview
While many options can carry a large price tag, there are tons of free project management software available. In this video produced by the TrustRadius team, learn why Trello is one of the best free project management software on the market.

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Trello Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Planview ProjectPlace are common alternatives for Trello.

Reviewers rate Team Collaboration highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Trello are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Trello - simple, smart and agile!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 12, 2019
RR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trello
5 years of experience
We use Trello across the company and the engineering department to organize and plan our development work. It's the center of our sprint planning and our scrum/agile meetings. It's simple, easy to use and really doesn't do much - but that's just perfect. It's not opinionated and allows us to use it how we want to.
  • Simple drag and drop interface
  • Lets you plan projects just as you would post-its on a wall
  • Provides a few productivity addon tools.
Cons
  • Could provide a few more integrations
  • Priced tier is a bit expensive
Trello is amazing at doing exactly what it needs to. It's well suited for simple project flows where there aren't strict rules around how everything has to work. If you're an agile company, and trust in people over process, Trello will be perfect.
However if you're a larger company and require reports and more structure, etc, then something more heavy weight like JIRA would be better suited.

Agile All The Way Down

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 16, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trello
1 year of experience
Trello makes it easier for Agile teams to keep track of what everyone is working on with minimal administrative overhead. The simple, manoeuvrable base interface is one of Trello's greatest strengths - in the past, a pain point when tracking project status during standups was the drudgery associated with updating Kanban and Sprint boards on clunkier interfaces like a physical whiteboard or JIRA boards. JIRA allows for greater abstraction of complex tasks and larger organisations, but oftentimes what is needed is simply something lightweight that does not feel like a chore to update. Trello also makes it easy to set up custom workflows for different teams by editing the lists on a board. If you work in a team of 5-10 people and want to trim the fat in your Agile ceremonies, Trello is definitely a tool to consider. The Trello user interface is extremely smooth and responsive, which can reduce the drag when collaborating with teammembers.
  • Kanban Boards
  • Rich ecosystem of integrations
  • Attractive, deceptively simply yet powerful card-based interface
Cons
  • Simplicity is its greatest strength but also its greatest challenge when used by large teams. Personally I am not sure how well an organisation with 100-200 people would fare based on Trello alone, unless they had strong commitments to Agile methodologies at all levels of the organisation.
  • Certain basic features like card sub-tasks and epics are only available as "Power Ups", which have limits on how many are active at one time. While it's understandable that Trello would have this model, I feel that some features should come with the bare-bones version of the product, such as sub-tasks and epics, since they are essential for productivity.
Trello is extremely well-suited for Agile development environments and iterative development approaches. It may be less appropriate for organisations that have strict ceremonial requirements or are strongly Waterfall in their methodology. In those environments, Trello won't be as useful, and there are better tools for tracking Waterfall development cycles. As mentioned, I am also not certain of how well Trello would perform in a large corporate business. It would certainly be worth investigating if such a business were strongly Agile, but it may not have the required complexity to track cross-functional teamwork or integrate teams with different development styles.

Trello: good for small agile teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 24, 2015
Trello is being used by developers, QA and IT managers internal to the software group only.
  • Helps track work items well and break them up ad-hoc
  • Track estimates
  • To Do lists
Cons
  • End to end traceability is not good compared to paid products such as TFS.
  • Native GitHub integration
Trello is suited well for smaller agile environments which are supplemented by other processes and mechanisms of communication. Particularly if you will need to establish your own mechanism for x-team communication and GitHub integration.

Trello - great for agile rapid development

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 14, 2016
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trello
3 years of experience
Trello is currently used in our department as a Kanban board for agile development. We can add sufficient requirements, designs and task lists which give enough detail in a clear interface. The board can be shown to stakeholders in the business as the information is clearly presented.
  • User friendly interface
  • Cross device, desktop, mobile, app
  • Email notifications
Cons
  • Being able to notify a group of individuals instead of one by one
  • Enforce a workflow or approval
Trello is great for organising simple processes where different disciplines come together. For our department, that was our agile development teams. We can all access, add detail, add designs, add comments and assign cards backwards and forwards as required.
Where we have found Trello to be less appropriate, is in complex workflows. If there are too many columns and cards, it can be difficult to find and move cards.

Excellent for Day-to-Day Agile Task Management

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 20, 2019
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trello
2 years of experience
We use Trello internally to plan and manage Product Development/Research and Development initiatives. We also use Trello to manage client engagements if the client company already has Trello in place. Teams, boards, and tasks are easy to create, and Trello makes project collaboration straightforward and relatively painless, particularly when compared to more traditional project management tools.
  • Team creation and management.
  • Day-to-day task management.
  • Collaboration.
Cons
  • Reporting is almost non-existent.
  • No dashboards unless you integrate with a third-party tool.
  • Confusing for some users familiar with traditional project management tools.
Trello is excellent for small to mid-size teams that need simple project collaboration and day-to-day task management. If you're looking for a robust project management platform with resource management, Gantt charts, and robust reporting/dashboards, you will, however, be disappointed.
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