BLOG Keep Going: Building Daily Habits & Scrum Keep Going These days I am beyond the horror, drama, darkness of depression and I have dived fully into never getting there again. As a reader of this blog or my personal weekly email, you will have watched this unfold with both the joy and the crap. Habits and Comfort Zones My “deliberate practice” mega mission is to develop habits that will get me doing what matters. This made me identify the exit out of my real comfort zone. I thought my getting out my comfort zone was running fast, a co
BLOG Managing your team with Trello You manage a team using Trello and want to assign tasks to your team members. But how can you see what else they already have going on and whether they are overloaded or have spare capacity? How can you keep an eye on whether your team members are meeting their deadlines and what they should focus on next? Finding out what your team members are working on in Trello is simple but the functionality is incredibly well hidden. When people see it for the first time it’s one of those eye-opening ‘aha
BLOG For Me Community Is “All in” I have been missing my blog. It went through this little phase where it became a shop front for our Trello course and that stopped me posting about my miserable little life. Except the stuff that people I care about also care about the little miserable musings I post, and these posts are the ones that are fun to write because they are from the heart and also offline these are the posts that instigate the most conversation, the stale crap I write never gets a connection. How does that content w
BLOG How to track project dependencies in Trello Project dependencies are a normal part of everyday life. Complex tasks break down into smaller tasks that depend on each other. To make an omelette, you first have to buy eggs. To build a website, you first have to discuss requirements and finish the designs. To organise an event, you have to decide on a date and book a venue before sending out invitations. Trello doesn't come with built-in functionality to manage project dependencies. There is no way to visually link Trello cards and no way to
BLOG How can I give a user in Trello read-only access? Trello is a collaboration tool and it's easy to add new members to a Trello board. Often you don't want those new members to have the same permissions as everybody else. Clients might need access to a project's board to see progress but without the need to comment or move cards around. Similarly, you might want to restrict what a user can do if they are not as technically skilled or not involved with the project very often. It would be nice to let these people see the current state of a project
BLOG How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines Introduction Perhaps you already know Trello as an easy-to-use project management tool and online to-do list. Did you know that you can also use Trello to schedule your time, set deadlines and integrate with your appointments and other calendars? Let me show you how in 3 easy steps. 3 Steps to Set up the Trello Calendar Step 1: Set a Due Date on a Trello Card To begin with, you will need to set a due date on a Trello card. This is str
BLOG I Got 99 Problems But Depression Ain’t One Over the holidays we spent a week in Poland with our friends, I was sick for a day when we arrived and sick for a day when we got back. Something happened in Poland, I love that place and I love our friends there dearly. I am wondering if a Polish Priest did a quick exorcism while I was having a plate of Gołąbki in the cafe on the town square. Ever since Poland, I have felt great. As you know my mental health got better and better last year, these past few months I have quantum leapt! For th
BLOG Bernie's Three Best Coworking Things To Do In London Every Week A longstanding super power of mine has been getting people together, I am pretty sure 'networking' is over or maybe the people I hang out with to assign more purpose to their time. Either way, I want to get people together and do something other than slam tequila and fend off business cards. Another factor is that my 'tribe' is a mix of people from freelancers, micro-businesses, big scary corporate jobs and everything in between, a unifying thing for them all are a lot of side projects.
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BLOG How to get your team to stop using endless email threads FOREVER We get it-- you like the idea of less email. Conversations can be concentrated within certain apps (whichever it might be--of course we like Trello ;)), but your team isn’t complying. The email threads continue. And continue. Ad nauseum. How do you get them to ADAPT, already? Fortunately there something truly simple you can do to make them stop the email nonsense forever. In our lifetime, the social skill of setting and maintaining boundaries has been all but lost. This isn’t done by enforcing
BLOG How can I add recurring cards to Trello? Are you using Trello to organise your life, your business or a particular project? Then you've probably wanted to create cards that repeat on a regular basis. Most calendars support recurring events, so is there an equivalent in Trello? How can you create recurring cards in Trello? It's one of the questions that we get asked a lot in the Trello workshops and that also affects us in our own lives. For example: We invoice clients on a monthly basis, review our Google Analytics stats at month end
