I have a couple developers working on the Jables app. They showed me an application that I think is pretty cool. It’s Trello. Trello is “is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s worked on what, and where something is in a process. Made in New York City by Fog Creek Software.” So basically each board has three columns: To Do, Doing, and Done. You create “cards” which act like post-it notes. On the card you write a task to be completed. You can assign one or more people to it and add a deadline date. You can also add color, but I haven’t used that that much. Once work has started on a task, you can move it to the Doing column. And obviously once it is completed, you move it to the Done column. It is a simple but effective project management tool. And best of all, it is free.
You can also have multiple boards. So we have 4 boards which are iOS Mobile App, Android Mobile App, Backend, and General. Each board has a log so you can see who moved or edited what.
It seems that pretty much all the functionality I would want is free. There is a Business Class version that is $5 per month per user or $45 per year per user. It lists the additional functionality as easily manage boards and members, Google Apps integration, additional and custom board background, additional and custom stickers, 250MB attachments, one-click bulk data export in CSV and JSON, bulk export history, and an observer role. I think if we had more people and were juggling more that would be useful.
