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Managing Your Personal Sprints w/ Trello

Chung Nguyen on July 22, 2018

Your hyper-organized developer is back to share something I've been using since August 2017 that has kept me extremely productive and put-togethe...
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Ben Halpern

I wish I were 1% this organized

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eXperimancer

Interesting, but when I tried to see that Trello template board it said that the link is private.

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Chung Nguyen
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Vlastimil Pospichal

I like Trello. I have over twenty boards for diary, ideas, tutorials, configurations, hobby, fun, etc. My base structure of boards is Kanban: BackLog, ToDo, Doing, Done and IceBox. I use attachments, links to other cards, hyperlinks, etc.

Your Inspiring Board inspired me. Thanks!

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Hmm I never saw the point of Trello but mentioning the private notes now makes me curious.

Does anyone know why Atlassian maintains both Jira and Trello? I think I'd be sold on trying it if it didn't feel like they'll sunset it any day now.

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André Costa Lima • Edited

I like Trello for its simplicity and functionality. I don't deny how useful and powerful Jira is, but the feeling and experience I have is it gets kind of slow sometimes. 😕 I usually see loadings for many actions I take.
I truly do hope Trello continues to operate.

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Chung Nguyen

Jira is Atlassian's and then they acquired Trello, so I sure hope they don't ever sunset it. Trello has a decent user base and seems pretty self-sufficient. :)

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Niko Heikkilä

Great tip! Do you replicate Jira tickets by hand or is there some fancy automated script for importing to Trello?

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André Costa Lima

According to the post, it seems it is done via manual copy pasting. I did a quick search and found there are some integrations which synchronize Jira to Trello, but that probably requires administrator privileges on Jira's side to install...

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Chung Nguyen

Correct. Done manually.

Trello has a number of ways to make cards (including emailing, with lists, etc.), but I like having my template on new Trello cards.

How to make Trello cards out of lists: trello.com/c/M56M90xj/16-create-ne...

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Mario DeLaPaz

I've always used trello for managing personal projects but never had a good structure in place. The template definitely will be using this template. Thanks!

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Lorenzo

Nice idea, I'll try to implement it myself!

I was wondering how do you handle the cards once you finished developing them?
Do you archive them?

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Chung Nguyen

Great question! I make a list on the right side for every release and move the cards there. So if you have a numbered release, you can make a list called "Release Alpha 2018-07-24" and move the card there.

This actually helped me a lot in completing my self review in the annual review cycle because I knew exactly what I delivered in each release.

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Marlysson Silva

Awesome idea, I'll trying hdnalde with my personal tasks in my job in this way..

A note: the Trello Template is private..

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Chung Nguyen

Whoops! Updated: trello.com/b/XOp2dx3t/template-per...

...I have Trello boards for all sorts of things!

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Andy Lu

Board not found.
This board may be private. If someone gave you this link, they may need to invite you to one of their boards or teams.

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Tom Gransden

This is a fantastic idea

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Chung Nguyen

Thanks! 🙌