Trello for Agile Teams

Trello for Agile Teams

1h 47mIntermediate2020-04-15

Authors

Doug Rose

Doug Rose

Teaching Fortune 500s and professionals how to lead change

Course details

Trello is a popular, web-based list-making application. It uses a kanban-style taskboard to organize and prioritize your work. In this course, learn how to optimize Trello to work well with agile teams. Agile expert Doug Rose shares best practices and tips for leveraging the tool's features in your product delivery.

Doug begins with a quick overview of the pros and cons of working with Trello. He shows how to set up a Trello taskboard to deliver in sprints. This helps your team get better feedback and maintain a sustainable pace. He also demonstrates how to map out the big picture using portfolio boards and story cards. To wrap up, he shares how to connect a variety of helpful Power-Ups to Trello cards. He explains how to connect your story cards to GitHub, create lightweight visualizations with Screenful, use ZenDesk help desk tickets to create Trello cards for the product map, and more.

Skills covered

TrelloAtlassianAgile Software DevelopmentAgile Project ManagementDevOpsProject ManagementOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Work collaboratively in agile teams with Trello

Get Started with Trello

  • Get to know lists and cards
  • Sign up for a free Trello account

Prioritize the Work

  • Create a product backlog
  • Write story cards to build out a product
  • Assign your team to boards

Plan Out the Sprint

  • Organize the team's task board
  • Prioritize the user stories
  • Create tasks for the team

Organize Tasks

  • Prioritize the team's tasks
  • Connect the tasks to user stories
  • Have team members commit to each task

Deliver in Sprints

  • Working off of Trello cards
  • Close out the work
  • Create a sprint review board
  • See how to organize your feedback

Improve the Process

  • Create a retrospective board
  • Use more of and less of lists

Manage a Product Portfolio

  • Create a product portfolio board
  • Break ideas down into epic cards
  • Turn epics into user story candidates
  • Link story candidates to the product backlog

Upgrade to Business Class

  • Clearing off the boards
  • Upgrading to Business Class

Useful Power-Ups

  • Voting over a cards priority
  • How to integrate OneDrive
  • Connect your story cards to GitHub
  • Create lightweight visualizations with Screenful
  • Get feedback with Zendesk

Mistakes to Avoid

  • Embrace agility and stay lightweight
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