You love Trello but your clients still use email. They don’t receive project notifications because they are not on the Trello board. How can you automate Trello so that it sends an email when a task has been completed? Rob, who manages a property maintenance business, recently got in touch with this very question. He runs his […]
Trello Tip: Make your meetings 1000 times more productive
The Win: Make your meetings, phone calls, Skype calls massively more productive. Keep track of what is decided during meetings, phone calls, Skype calls. Easily create tasks and assign them to members of your team. The Problem: During a call, it’s easy to make decisions, plan the next move, come up with a brilliant strategy. […]
Trello Tip: Keep track of lots of projects at the same time
The Win: You’ll be able to keep track of all your projects at the same time, across multiple Trello boards and gives you back a feeling of control. The Pain: Once you start using Trello in earnest, you automatically end up with lots of boards. It can become difficult to keep track of what you […]
Retrospective: My Trello workshop at Hubud in Bali
My family and I are currently travelling in Bali and Australia for a few months. It’s our last chance for a grand gesture before our son starts school back in London in September. For the last 5 weeks I’ve been stationed at the lovely Hubud co-working space in Ubud, Bali. If you’ve ever wanted to work in a […]
How can I notify everybody on my Trello board?
How can I message everybody on my Trello board at the same time? This question was asked by Chris Thompson of the amazing Green School in Bali at our recent Trello workshop at Hubud. He wanted to update his entire team in one go, without having to mention every team member individually. Interestingly enough I had the […]
Personal Scrum Quickstart Guide
Greetings, fellow humans! It is I, Emily Breder, returned after a long sabbatical from Bernie’s blog to give you the how-to you’ve been waiting for: how to take the most popular of Agile methods, Scrum, and apply it to your everyday work without a software development team, or even a software project. Bernie and I […]
How to: Create Trello cards from Slack
We recently wrote a blog post on How to integrate Trello and Slack. The stand-alone integration is fairly simple, and the question came up whether you could create a Trello card from inside a Slack channel conversation. It turns out the answer is YES, although it’s not exactly straightforward. Read on to find out how […]
How to: Integrate Trello with Slack
We are often asked: “Can I integrate Trello with Slack”? The answer is a resounding YES and we’ll show you how to do it in a few easy steps.
How to: Connect Trello to the Sunrise Calendar
Trello is well known for its ease of use as an online project management tool. We recently wrote about how easy it is to set up the Trello calendar to manage your weekly and monthly work schedule. You can also integrate your Trello calendar with Google Calendar for a fairly basic read-only setup. The good news is […]
How to: Integrate Trello with Google Calendar
There are 2 online tools that I use the most – Trello, for online project, business and life management, and Google Calendar, to schedule meetings and keep track of deadlines. Perhaps you work in a similar way. Let me show you how you can connect the Trello calendar to your Google Calendar, so that Trello […]
How to set up the Trello Calendar
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 manage your weekly and monthly work schedule? Let me show you how in 3 easy steps.
How to organise absolutely anything with Trello
Do you have a project that you want to get off the ground? Perhaps you are organising an event, starting a business, launching an app, planning a wedding or looking to get fit? Follow this simple process to get organised and to start, plan and deliver your project on time.
How to see all your Trello cards in one place
Here’s a short but sweet mid-week tip on how to see all your Trello cards in one place. If you’re anything like me you’ve got loads of different Trello boards set up. I checked just now and I have about 80! That means there are potentially tasks waiting for me across 80 Trello boards! I can already […]
90 Days of Massive Action #3
I have never ever ever ever ever tracked and reviewed what I do so deeply as I do now. Short post – I am making serious progress in my “days of massive action” quest. Longer Post It hurts when I miss something, fuck something up, feel shit, get low on energy, low on money, low […]
7 key tips for using Trello for Scrum software development
Over the years, I’ve coded and managed 100s of web and mobile development projects. Most of them were delivered using Scrum or related agile methodologies. As a company, we’ve gradually settled on Trello as our de-facto project management tool. It’s not immediately obvious how you would use Trello for Scrum out of the box, so […]
