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Trello in agile teams: best practices (PixelsCa...

Trello in agile teams: best practices (PixelsCamp 2016)

My talk at Pixels.Camp on October 6th, 2016. Not affiliated with Trello. Companion blog post at: https://productcoalition.com/trello-in-agile-teams-3d0536fb518c

João Pedro Craveiro

October 06, 2016
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  1. Meet João est. 1984 | ISTJ Lisbon, Portugal J Product

    Manager at Premium Minds Assistant Professor at U. Lusófona Software Engineer at Premium Minds Researcher at LaSIGE Teaching Assistant at FCUL Freelance web developer ...
  2. Trello is Okay™ For non-development collaborative processes For small projects

    As an auxiliary coordination tool (e.g. between client and provider) If it simply works for you
  3. • No accessible record of ◦ When labels have changed

    ◦ The path through these changes • If you are trying to get any metrics from a board (burndown, lead time, etc.)… History ...you don’t.
  4. Accountability • You don’t know who changed a label •

    Sounds like witch-hunting, but it isn’t (necessarily…)
  5. Starts with the basics and grow from there To Do

    / Doing / Done To Do / Doing 1 / Doing 2 / Doing 3 / … / Done-done You can also break down your To Do (e.g. Backlog vs Sprint Backlog)
  6. Criticality Some may call it priority... Justin Cone proposes a

    4-label system: Blocker, Annoying, Cosmetic, Reference
  7. Mix & match Type + (some) criticality Red label deliberately

    NOT named Urgent Bug label deliberately NOT red
  8. Mix & match Type + theme From “this is an

    epic” to “this belongs to that epic”
  9. Resist the urge to use labels just because they are

    cute and colored The main stages in your workflow are better represented as lists More fine-grained or sporadic states are nicely handled with checklists. Use labels for stuff that doesn’t change (much) • Card type (feature, bug, etc.) • Theme/epic • Criticality • A mix among these
  10. Nice to read • Trello in agile teams: best practices,

    companion post to this talk https://medium.com/@d_little_b/ trello-in-agile-teams-3d0536fb518c • Scrum with Trello, by Robin Warren https://www.infoq.com/articles/scrum-trello • How To Manage Scrum And Kanban Teams In Trello With The Corrello Power-Up, by Robin Warren https://blog.trello.com/manage-scrum-and- kanban-teams-with-trello-corrello-power-up / • 4 tips for working with Trello, by Justin Cone http://justincone.com/4-tips-for-working-wit h-trello/ • Organizing a large product backlog, by Daniel Zacarias http://foldingburritos.com/articles/2015/07/ 06/organizing-a-large-product-backlog/ • A Trello template for your Product Backlog, by Daniel Zacarias http://foldingburritos.com/articles/2015/10/2 0/a-trello-template-for-your-product-backlo g/ ◦ With awesome inspiration boards