Trello Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

The ability to manage ongoing projects and communication across the board

The interface and the complexity of the software. We've switched to monday.com and life's been easier since.

It lets one keep up with current workflows and tasks, and communicate information across the board

Very simple and intuitive, it fills your basic organizational needs

It's a limited tool, that's is very useful for Kanban views, but not so much if want to create a more complex project

It helps teams to organize and prioritize tasks, making it easier to follow up on action plans

The atlassian team has definitely taken the initiative in agile methodology with Trello. Trello is easy to use for managing small tasks or sprints by simple drag-drop tasks across To-Do, In-Progress, Done, and other customizable columns, adding comments, attachments, and user mentions.

It can become very clunky when looking to manage a startup or a more intensive product from scratch due to its basic features. I prefer Jira (also free for small teams) due to its more extensive abilities for backlog grooming, story points, roadmaps, etc. Also it could definitely user improvement in it's text indentation.

It has been dry useful for initial sprints for very small product releases. Benefits include: ease of use, attachments, user-mentioning, comments.

Trello has an attractive user interface and a huge suite of tools. Helps manage our remote team while keeping projects individual and assignable. In short, it helps keep teams separate better than similar platforms.

There are way too many functions. I don't find Trello intuitive in any way. Instead, it actually slows down my productivity. My process pre trello would be to email a colleague a google drive link. To do the same on trello, I have to navigate to the correct board, create a card on that board with an explanation of what is going on, import the google drive document to the card, and then add my teammate. Why make more work in the name of productivity?

Trello provides more transparency for team members that are not directly involved with a project. This allows email inboxes to be streamlined, but still gives the whole team access to projects.

I did not find Trello to be useful. The software is confusing and difficult to use.

The project board, post-it note stye did not seem to create an environment for collaboration. We were not able to use it succeffully for project management.

We hoped to collaborate and manage projects involving many participants.

Trello works nicely for organizing and planning. It is really good for when your tasks cross over each.

I do not like that trello is complicated and to me, doesnt seem very unique. There are many other programs out there that allow for team communicating and planning in a better way than trello.

Trello does help me organize around different clients with different needs when I have one team member working on another thing I can put a request into their trello tab and they will see it.

sharing and UX is very smooth and changes are instantaneous

Redundant with office and outlook planner and to do list apps that are integrated in HIPAA compliant way with our CRM too

NOt as good as an integrated tool working in our 365 environment

It does let you put details about each task that can help you differentiate between them. You can also set reminders and its very mobile friendly. in fact I mainly use it on my iPad and iPhone.

I honestly do not enjoy the fact that the tasks require so much information and take up a lot of time to set up.

I manage a social media account and it is important to have the everyday tasks and scheduling organized, this tool is crucial for me and replaces a little piece of paper I would normally use.

I like that it has separate tasks and lists

I think I'm just a paper person when it comes to "post its." I get lost organizing things rather than doing it

Multiple people on the same project tracking progress and thoughts

Trello is okay, it's nice for being able to manage simple and small tasks for a small team, but it really doesn't work for a large group setting.

Trello doesn't have the best way to properly manage projects between teams. Task managers like Asana work better.

Not great for large teams to help manage projects. Benefits from Trello is being able to grow a team from a smaller project management tool

The boards and cards allow users to stay organized and on the same page. When sharing a to-do list with your team, Trello

Attachments and cards become hard to follow when they become very detailed. I would say the search functionality is difficult, as some of the information is hidden.

Cross team communication for a product launch. Trello keeps communication organized on cards.

I haven’t really found anything that I like about it.

I hated the constant emails that I received.

Trekking has only added to my plate by the inordinate amount of emails.

easy to use and not a lot of user training is required

for SSO and other security features you must upgrade to enterprise and pay 4x the price.

kanban boards, team organization

Nothing. I found it cumbersome and not convenient.

Too many cards that could be duplicated, hard to keepnjistorical copies of documents, hard to see revision histories

None

I found very little in the tool helpful. We used it across our department to collaborate but it seemed like just to do lists to me.

I disliked the way everything was set up and felt like it was a glorified to do list. Emailing seemed more Efficient.

Project management and cross collaboration across the team to work together on large projects

Very hard to keep track of things in an organized way

Everything. Very hard to keep track of things in an organized way

My day to day tasks - until I found Asana which is MUCH easier.

Trello has a simple structure and easy to understand. It is nice for simple boards.

Sending too many emails and not suitable for complex project and task management

We are using trello to send a welcome board for welcoming new employees of our company

Trello provides a good big picture visual for projects in the queue

You have to dig into it a bit to get to the details of who is responsible for what related a project

I'm not currently realizing benefits of Trello

I like how you can easily organize things with Trello offline as well as online. This is a tremendous plus! I use it at home offline to organize my mine and my kids time.

I would rather not have to pay for a presentation app, there are many free alternatives. Other than that, there is nothing else that I dislike about the app.

Organizing multiple projects and sharing between teams.

I really do not like this program. Asana works a lot better.

Just is not very easy to use. Missing a lot of features.

There is no real problem that is solved because I do not like to use it.

Trello is for the ultimate brain dumps for all your really good business ideas, past present and future.

Trello can start to get a little scattered, just like your brain.

Trello definitely helps get all those ideas out that you can eventually refine and put more detailed steps to.

It was easy to sort through things, but ultimately we stopped using it because we could better discuss things together.

It wasn't that useful to our work project.

It was used for communication for a large work project to storyboard ideas, which was nice. I think it's good for beginning planning stages of things but execution wise it isn't ideal.

Trello helps track items on your to-do list, and perhaps track the stage of production they're in at the time.

I work best with more automation for routine activities, and like more control over workflows, tasks, and event triggers; Trello just is not good with any of those things.

Right now, we're tracking activities people are working on, and it's only been good for documenting what people have on their plate. Trello is largely manual, with very few automation or workflow capabilities, and that's becoming more of an issue.

its organized and you can easily tag parent and child cards to each other

i dislike that this does not replace the need to email - attachments are very skued from the original and although this organizes projects there is a still a need to email the team so it duplicates all efforts as it does not fit into an all in one solution for team communication

keeping the team on the same page

Our team wasn't using any sort of task management prior, so starting on using Trello has helped us out a bit.

Sharing lists can be difficult, and sharing them between users is a chore. The over UX isn't very enjoyable, it's non-intuitive and I found myself googling simple questions a lot more often than I should have been.

It helped with task management, especially on projects that don't have clearly defined parameters.

Hmm, it's easy to move tasks around, like from working on to finished.

It's very annoying how many tasks can be setup and assigned. It seems like anyone can set them up.

Task Management. It does seem to work.

The UI is satisfying to use, in terms of animation and responsiveness. Clicks register readily, and visual representation of your actions is clear and immediate. There are few restrictions on what content you can include and attach (supports many file types). The tool is very customizable, and requires little setup or configuration to get started, so it's very much plug and play.

There is incredibly little automation capability, and workflow is completely lacking. Pales in comparison to other automation- or workflow-oriented tools I've used and am trying to bring in-house. This leads to many reminder emails (manually sent) because Trello fails to do this automatically and efficiently. Our team constantly misses deadlines because of poor notification systems, unclear content attachments and edits, and confusion regarding how to navigate or download materials added to a task or card. Overall, while the tool is easy to use, understanding how to use it properly - and to enforce proper usage across the team - is a chore. Each person is left to use the tool with their own style and preferences, which then adds complexity when trying to accomplish group goals.

The team is trying to solve Marketing content creation/production. I have heard of almost no benefits, rather than accountability, and the ability to point fingers at people when delays occur, saying "well it's in the Trello board." That's barely a benefit at all, and causes a lot of confusion and conflict.

There's not much I like about Trello, but one of the few high points is how easy it is to set up a new board. We had a new office manager start and I created a board for her in only a few minutes.

Almost everything else - Can't create multiple/interim due dates for one project - Can't sort projects by due date - Can't assign individuals to project components so you can see who is supposed to be acting - No way to filter to see what is due today or what I should work on next - No way to see projects for each member of my team and what is behind deadline - Strips out attachments and lumps them together, so it's hard to see which file someone is referring to - Can't find anything!

This started as the project management tool for one person and it has stuck as the team has grown, but it is absolutely not adequate even for a team of 4, let alone the 25 people who are trying to use it now. Even for a simple task like tracking office management jobs for our admin, it is hard to use since you cannot assign priorities to tasks or sort/filter by due date.

Ease of organization, from various tasks, adding other components, and customizing for different types of activities.Seemed harder to get the entire team to adopt this. Also google plugin.

Seemed harder to get the entire team to adopt this.

Project management across the team

You can post files so that people outside of the organization can review them.

Trying to figure how to create new cards and new subject areas is very frustrating. Figuring how to edit cards is also frustrating. Not intuitive or user friendly in the slightest. Opening up Excel files is also very clunky.

Sharing files all in one place with people outside of the organization.