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Re: Trello boards - best practices for Tech Pubs ?
Subject:Re: Trello boards - best practices for Tech Pubs ? From:Lonnye Smith <yanceysmith -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:02:07 -0500
I sent this to Monique privately at first, but here it is for the list as a whole.
In addition to In Progress and Done, I would recommend adding a Blocked status. This helps track those tasks that have dependencies on others that can't be done until those issues are resolved.
Good luck!
Lonnye Yancey-Smith
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
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> Hello, WR-L-ers,
>
> Iâve just started a new contract at a place thatâs using Trello boards. Theyâre enthusiastic for me to create a Tech Pubs board, and so Iâm looking for some best practices for managing doc tasks, which will range from high-level/complex items (âchoose an authoring toolâ) to low-level tasks (âRevise topic-A on the helpsiteâ).
>
> Different groups seem to have different lists in their boards, so clearly I can create it as best suits Tech Pubs. Typical lists on many/most of their boards are Backlog, Roadmap, In progress, Recently Done, Done, ToDo, Shelved, Freezer (presumably means, âShelvedâ). I could see having lists for different priorities of ToDo (or is there a secondary property that would be good to use on items in the same list?), In-Progress, and Done. Not sure that I need much else?
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> I donât need a lot of detail here â not trying to resource planning a la Microsoft Project or anything. Itâs just a broad/high-level planning tool to make my work/plans easily visible to everyone.
>
> Thanks for your lessons learned,
> -Monique
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