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Originally Posted by DubstepLion1
My concern is that if I start making boards for individual projects like a robot, how would I organize smaller projects or miscellaneous tasks? Our team structure somewhat complicates this because we have two divisions, Engineering and Business, and each of these divisions have several departments (e.g. Programming, CAD, Media, Outreach). Some departments have projects within themselves, but I don't want to deal with having too many boards.
We were planning on integrating it with Slack, too, but I'll make sure to look these other software.
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We have a mix of project-based boards and department based boards. The engineering department has no department based boards, their teams share "2016 Robot," "Outreach Bot, " etc boards. On the other hand, we have a "Business Projects" board, a "Communications Projects" board, but the Communications team also has a "Website" board, etc. Just make it work to your needs without fragmenting too much.
A further example is that our team is planning a conference as we do every year, so we just have a new list inside of the Business Projects board rather than making a whole new board.
To get into our team further: we integrated Trello from the top down (mentors, student leads) last year and then pushed it to all students. Getting everyone on it is hard, and inevitably there will be slackers (which I'll get into later, ha ha ha) who don't use it or look at it. I should note that this happens even when our students have no technology
At the end of the year, we still think it's a great tool and we should use it more. We decided an issue was that stopping to pull out a device during our work hours to see what was going on was inconvenient, and we also didn't document what was going on as a result. So, I fielded the idea of buying a touchscreen monitor and mounting it on the wall, and the student leadership loved it, so that's something we'll try next year to increase Trello engagement.
I have to say that the Slack - Trello integration is
killer for productivity. Without it, Trello usage would have dropped off more significantly. Being able to have discussions about everything happening is great. The new Trello integration someone mentioned above has a cool bot, but will no longer notify the channel when a change is made in Trello, unless it is made through Slack. To put it simply,
if you're considering upgrading to the new Trello app, you should probably wait until alerts are back. I'm happy to go into more details about any of the above if anyone has any questions.