Trello, now 10 years old, offers an ambitious overhaul of its platform

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            L'application de productivité Trello a annoncé une refonte majeure cette semaine, ajoutant des fonctionnalités pour aider les entreprises à mieux gérer les intégrations tierces, de nouvelles cartes personnalisables et la possibilité d'accéder aux charges de travail au-delà de la vue principale du mesa blanca.

The changes come after a year in which Trello said it saw a spike in users due to the rush to remote work brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic; the company now has more than 50 million records. “During the pandemic, Trello first became the new home office for many people in a distant world,” Trello co-founder Michael Pryor wrote in a company blog post. Enrollment increased 73% in March 2020, he said, compared to the same month a year earlier. “The shift from daylight to distributed work, coupled with rampant adoption of digital tools, has led to an exponential increase in digital work artifacts scattered across applications, some of which now look like a graveyard of proven tools” Pryor said. He highlighted an Okta report that found that large enterprises deploy an average of 175 apps. As a result, Pryor said the company decided to review what drew people to Trello in the first place, with an eye toward adding more functionality. One goal: to avoid increasing information overload Another: to avoid overcomplicating the platform, ruining it for users who already liked it The latest moves are designed to boost productivity and help users better understand what teams do and what happens within an organization.The updates also bring more ways to view data from other tools natively, without ever leaving Trello. “This announcement sees Trello looking to become a much bigger player in this space, supporting larger clients as they adopt technology to support their ever-evolving hybrid work strategy,” said Angela Ashenden, senior analyst at CCS Insight. . She pointed to the recent acquisitions of Workfront by Adobe, Wrike by Citrix, and Slack by Salesforce, proof that work management is becoming increasingly important to businesses. The shift to remote work over the past year and the recognition that there will be a hybrid workforce for the foreseeable future has redefined workers' dependence on technology for collaborative productivity. "It has a huge impact on product innovation in the marketplace," Ashenden said.

New features and capabilities

Trello introduced five new table views: the team table view, which organizes data in a convenient spreadsheet format; chronological view, to organize a complex project according to the next deadlines; calendar view, to track deadlines and urgent tasks; map view, for users who have location-based projects; and a dashboard view to view important success metrics such as due dates, assigned cards, and list cards in the form of a pie, bar, and line chart. Trello Trello card cards are for users who have location-based projects. Elsewhere, new card capabilities expand Trello's visual framework, allowing users to better connect information between cards, and even outside of Trello if needed. The new cards include mirror cards and link cards, which the company hopes will make it easier to manage other apps and services in Trello. For example, instead of simply being a URL to a third-party service like Jira, Google Docs, or YouTube, link cards now display previews. Trello Trello mirror cards allow users to pair cards from multiple cards. Another new type of card, mirror cards, allows users to combine cards from multiple cards, so that changes made to one are reflected on the others. Trello said they help break down silos so teammates working on different boards always have the latest information about a project, without the hassle of manually updating in multiple places. “There's something unique about changing that basic Trello element and saying that this card can represent things that you created inside of Trello, but it can also represent things outside of it. Pryor said. Trello also offers users a new way to organize work, increasing productivity by being able to find and share information faster. Boards will now live in workspaces made up of team members and individuals and are organized by a sidebar to the left of Trello. From there, users will be able to see their featured boards, team-level board views, and all boards in the workspaces they use.

The future of Trello

Looking ahead, Pryor recognized that competition among project management applications is increasing. “Which forced us to understand that there is a place for us to offer all the things that people love about Trello in a much broader way, rather than just focusing on this specific use case,” he stated. Instead of Viewing Trello as a simple project management app, the company worked to develop the idea of ​​the platform as a visual organizational language that can be used across the company."It doesn't matter if you use JIRA, Asana, or Monday, Trello can to provide a layer between those tools that anyone can use. It works on any device; it works offline; and it's all of these things that over the last 10 years have made Trello so valuable and useful to people," Pryor said. Launching ten years ago, Ashenden has said that Trello has always been a highly creative and visual app with particular appeal to users."While its dashboard concept has been embraced by many competitors in the market since its launch in 2011, this announcement shows that Trello continues to be an innovator…” he said.

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