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Product Development
Learn how to manage the life cycle of a product or service within Trello.
When to use
To understand the benefits of using a board to collaborate on product development. To learn an example from the software development industry.
Instructions
Trello is an excellent application for managing the development and lifecycle of products and services. Thousands of software teams use boards to manage their work and deliver their product on time.
The different lists represented in this Product Development board include:
Featured Requests: This list is designed to collect all of the requests (or complaints) that have been made by both employees and customers about the software.
Approved: This list represents the requests from the first list which have been approved and will be scheduled to be developed.
In Progress: This list displays all of the features and fixes that are currently being worked on by the development team.
Version 8.9: This list represents the very next release of the software. Cards within this list will be included in this release.
Version 9.1: This list represents a future version of the software. Since not all features may be included in the next release, several versions may be managed at once.
Login to download- 00:05 Trello is a fantastic solution for managing a product development life cycle.
- 00:10 In this particular example,
- 00:12 we're gonna take a look at how we can manage a software lifecycle.
- 00:16 Everything from receiving initial feature requests,
- 00:20 all the way to assigning those features to a particular release version.
- 00:25 The very first list is titled Feature Requests.
- 00:29 And this is where we are going to be collecting all the information coming in
- 00:33 from existing customers or perhaps an internal team such as a support team.
- 00:39 Some of this information could be coming directly from a web or an email form.
- 00:45 And another advantage of using Trello is that you can attach an image or
- 00:50 a screenshot directly to the Trello card.
- 00:53 This can be a great way to reference exactly what this customer, or
- 00:58 what the requester was referencing within their request.
- 01:02 Now, of course,
- 01:03 we are usually not able to approve every single request that comes in.
- 01:08 So our next list is titled Approved.
- 01:12 This is where we can move things that we've decided we are going to complete
- 01:16 into the Approved list.
- 01:19 Our next list on this board is titled In Progress and this represents the different
- 01:25 features or the different bug fixes that we are working on right now.
- 01:29 And you will notice that there are different colored labels represented here.
- 01:34 The green indicates that we have completed the development on this feature and it is
- 01:40 now in its final testing phase before we assign it to a particular release version.
- 01:45 But the red label indicates that we are having
- 01:48 issues with this particular piece of development.
- 01:52 And we may be delayed and
- 01:54 may need further assistance to complete this particular task.
- 01:58 Lastly, we have two different lists representing the next
- 02:02 two versions of this piece of software.
- 02:05 Version 8.9 and then Version 9.1.
- 02:10 Of course, if you are involved with managing software development,
- 02:14 you may have many additional versions listed here as well.
- 02:18 You will also notice that the very first card in these two lists do
- 02:23 not represent a feature request or a bug fix.
- 02:28 Because we cannot include additional text information with the title of a list,
- 02:34 sometimes it can be helpful to add that as the first card in the list.
- 02:39 So here you can see I've included the release date for
- 02:43 these particular versions.
- 02:46 And just to make them stand out that much more,
- 02:48 I have added a unique blue label to these particular cards.
- 02:53 Of course, you can use this type of method in any board that you manage.
- 02:58 It can be helpful to add additional pieces of information either for yourself or
- 03:03 for other people who may be collaborating with this board.
- 03:07 So, a simple but powerful example of how you can use Trello
- 03:12 to manage any product development lifecycle.
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