Fear me, I have Trello minions now.

>doesn't scale

Where are you hitting the wall on this?  Number of members?

I've never run into a problem with members, but there are limited colours to colour code and scrolling left/right gets to be a pain in the arse once you have a lot of grouped cards, so you end up with either an unweildy interface, very general groupings, or lots of seperate boards.

The problem for me is I need to manage multiple clients across multiple channels, several projects per client at any one time, and multiple staff on each project. Thats when it stops working - if you just want to load all cards for a project with deadlines and allocate to different people, then it works brilliantly even at high volume I suspect.

>you just want to load all cards for a project with deadlines and allocate to different people, then it works brilliantly

That's me.  I am one-track to a fault, so whatever I'm working on is THE focus. Meanwhile, everything else can go to hell.

>scrolling left/right

Yeah.  I also tend to be minimalist --VERY conservative when it comes to allocating screen real estate. That helps, but scrolling is definitely a UI issue.

>minions

Now I need a couple of a telepresence bots and I can really be a PITA on the jobsite, hhh.

Quote from: rcjordan on October 28, 2015, 01:06:53 PM
Fear me, I have Trello minions now.

>doesn't scale

Where are you hitting the wall on this?  Number of members?

I find that when the number of tasks gets large, it somehow starts to feel like there's a lot more "friction"

The big thing, which may have been corrected, is that only the card titles are searchable. So if you get into an extended discussion in the comments, that's not available in search (or wasn't a year ago). So that means that once the conversations get beyond what you can hold in your head, you can't find shit. Which is why it didn't scale for me.

>only the card titles are searchable

I'll check that out, thanks.  It would be a minor annoyance for me in my use, but good to know.

I found that we would create a task and there would be discussion in the comments on best approach, "how about this" and so on. Where it got really tough was when the task was a bug fix or involved code and you'd start to wonder "Where were we discussing the code for Feature X?" and could never fricken find it.

I think if you use it as a simple Kanban and don't have discussion, no problem. If you do need to have discussion, though, you need to have a forum for that - Basecamp, Asana, etc. With Asana, though, I never really have to leave . I don't get the visual Kanban, but I have all the discussion, attachments, due dates etc etc.

So eventually I just abandoned Trello.

But for a visual overview as a classic Kanban, it's good.

>for a visual overview
>UI

In my case,  the simple 'move sticky notes around on bulletin boards' concept has the advantage of allowing me to recruit anyone with a tablet or smartphone as a member. A construction crew would be a good example. One or two of them are going to be capable enough to pick up on how to use it on their smartphone after a 3 minute explanation.

Makes sense. I could see where it would work great there.

update:

Trello makes its Power-Ups available to free users

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/23/trellos-power-ups-are-now-available-to-free-users-too/