Project management tools - testing trello

Community Ops
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At the meeting today one thing that came up was that I’d like project management tools so I can do a better job of driving projects and not just meetings.

We discussed a few different tools, and I’m open to suggestions, however I have also decided that I want to try using Trello to see how it works. Reps already use it, I like the features, it uses kanban style cards that we (those on the call) like, and it has an API.

I created our organization here - https://trello.com/mozillacommunityops - I am not sure if you can request access from that page, or if I need to invite you. If you want access let me know your trello user. If you don’t already have a trello account, let someone invite you, you get a free month of their premium service for each person you invite.

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Hi,
I think this is a great alternative to Trello https://taiga.io/
is self hosted and open source.

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Huh, that looks really cool. Do you know if any other Mozilla communities are using it?

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The Brazil community are using kanboard(http://github.com/fguillot/kanboard), I have some contributions on this project.

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I don’t think we’re in a position to host our own management tools. I’d like to stick with something hosted. I believe Mozilla IT uses Kanbanize, so we might want to ask them about that. They have integration with Bugzilla, so if we could use that, we’d be in good shape.

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Always lead with requirements - what are they?

For instance, is Bugzilla integration a requirement?

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Right, Trello was picked because I need something to start using right now and I’m mindful that we might not get something that does everything that would make our lives easier

In a perfect solution it would:

integrate with

  • bugzilla - we’ve agreed we get value out of using bugzilla
  • github - more and more Mozilla projects are using github for collaboration
  • MeetingHero/Worklife - this doesn’t currently have an API though, it might be simpler to replicate this tool somehow

Have

  • due dates
  • Assignees
  • Tracks (swimlanes, in progress, stalled done)
  • Trello has checklists for further breaking down and tracking progress on a task that actually lets you know how many of the tasks are checked off
  • Description field, not just a summary/title
  • nesting

This is what I can think of off the top of my head anyway.

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jira support all these features, but don’t have an free plan :confused:

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I do like JIRA. Do you know about Bugzilla integration? My only concern
with using JIRA Is that it’s really a Bugzilla replacement. I also feel
like a lot of stuff JIRA does that we like is front end stuff, and could
be added to Bugzilla/accessed through the API.

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Yes, have integration with Github, Bugzilla and some other services:

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