Trello Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Trello every day, and have for about 15 years now! My organization hasn't adopted it, but personally, I have done so. I use it for my volunteer projects, board roles and work. I have 3 workspaces I operate on, and within each workspace is its own board.

Likelihood to Recommend

For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist.

For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest Monday.com.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our team mainly uses Trello for greater efficiency in our personal productivity. We had originally used it as a team-wide checklist for onboarding purposes, but we realized that having the onboarding experience spread between two different tools (Miro and Trello) was more difficult to manage and did not create the most streamlined onboarding workflow or experience for the manager or the new hire. Thus, we no longer use Trello for that purpose and now just use it individually for our personal workflows.

Likelihood to Recommend

Trello can be especially useful for project management purposes where an individual needs to keep track of multiple moving pieces within a single (or multiple) projects at once. When additional individuals are collaborating on a given project, I find that the usefulness and value of Trello decreases. I believe this is because when multiple individuals are collaborating, they are usually doing so in ANOTHER tool (e.g. Miro, MS Teams, etc.) and those tools usually have some type of Kanban tool built into them, and it's usually easier to use those kanban tools to stay within the same workflow than working between multiple tools (e.g. MS Teams + Trello, Miro+Trello). In my first example of our onboarding experience, we ended up using the kanban widget that exists within the Miro board instead of spreading the onboarding experience across Miro and Trello.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses Trello for our onboarding process. We have found that this platform helps give new hires a better sense of direction and is able to track progress. They find it useful to be able to check off tasks as they go.

Likelihood to Recommend

Trello is well suited for onboarding positions primarily in an office setting. However, there could be some struggle for someone who is coming onboard in a warehouse setting that lacks computer skills.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Well, for a while, we used Trello as our primary platform for organizing work, collaborative boards, and organizational modules. During these three years of use, while it was very helpful, we noticed that, given the size of the organization, it was starting to become too small for the use we required. However, I can say that Trello is an excellent first tool and that using it definitely helps a lot.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're an entrepreneur with a small business or a digital artist with a lot of commissions, I think Trello would help you a lot in your daily work. It's a platform that's very simple and intuitive at its core. It allows you to see how much progress you're making, how much work you're doing, how long it takes you to complete an order, or simply monitor the tasks you complete each day.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Trello almost every single day. Without Trello, it would be easy to have messages related to new clients or to-do items laying all over the place, but Trello gives each objective and business item a home. Its layout is engaging, its cards practical, and its features widespread. <div>

</div><div>I particularly enjoy the time tracking feature, even though my company doesn’t utilize it as often. I think it’s a wonderful solution to providing accountability and bolster data on how long certain tasks take certain people </div>

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Within my company, we are regularly onboarding new clients, who are having their very first experience with our company and what our company can offer. But, before we can get the new clients launched, we often have a lengthy to-do list to get through in order to prepare all new materials for the new clients. <div>

</div><div>Trello has proven to be the most helpful resource for client onboarding, where we often have 10 to 20 objectives within a single card detailing what needs to be done and when it needs to be done in order to get the client running. </div>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Trello to organize team coordination for evaluating new product rollouts and post-rollout assessments. We found it helpful to keep everyone synchronized using the same data. It was also more efficient to have a single location to find and access our team. Trello was cost-effective and easier to use than Microsoft products and a little better than Google products.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for startups and small teams starting out. Larger teams get harder but for a tight team less than 12 thought this was a great system to use.

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A colleague at the head office recommended Trello to me, and I used Trello to monitor the development of new learning resources. I started to use it as part of my personal productivity routine. It helped me keep track of my daily and weekly To-Do lists and was a key component of my Weekly Review process. I created a series of personal Kanban boards. The Card format of Trello lends itself to this approach. As a visual thinker, the colour coding of the cards helped me understand what needed to be done and what type of task it was. Finally, the physical movement of cards from 'To Do' to my weekly plan and then to 'Done' was helpful and satisfying.

Likelihood to Recommend

Trello is great for enhancing personal productivity. I use the Kanban approach, but it can also be used to monitor progress with projects, either as an individual or by sharing Trello Boards within a team.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Trello for my project Management. I have one team working remotely that handles my sales and marketing whereas I handle the development team inhouse. So collaboration between sales and development and management of project with clear communication involves Trello and tracking the project status with daily updates. It also helps me in resource management as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

For me, I like the notifications and arrangements of the lists part. I can easily track what is going on with which project. With basic Trello layout, I had to create some SOPs just so people on my team don't use it the wrong way, But it would be helpful if we can lock those SOPs down so there are no mistakes for the new users otherwise every new person is to be taught how to use it.

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I use Trello to organize my tasks and group them into categories for each client. Previously, I used my notes app to write out lists of what I needed to do, but it was difficult to distinguish which task was for which client. Trello has fixed that for me and has made it easy for me to organize my tasks.

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Trello is definitely best suited for a work setting -- I don't think I would ever use it in my personal life.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our musical instrument e-commerce business, Trello has helped us fill in so many gaps in communication that would naturally occur during day-to-day operations as well as longer-term projects. Whenever an order comes into our store, we use Trello to create and track the fulfillment of that order, as well as to delegate the responsibility of fulfilling it to someone on the team. We also organize goals and targets for business projects utilizing Trello's great organizational features!

Likelihood to Recommend

Trello is great for cross-team communication and intra-team organization. It's simple to get setup, with flexible tools that give businesses control over how to make Trello work the best for them. It is an amazing platform for operations tracking, project management, and even organizing customer service requests for a smaller business.