Within the Technology team, we use Trello to keep track of projects and their status.
The Big Project Board is our most active Trello board. It contains all of the projects we're working on together.
An ideal Trello card is written in PRD format. However, we encourage everyone to use only as much definition as they need. Often, cards are of varying length depending on how well the project needs to be documented.
A Big Project Board card typically goes through this workflow:
- Backlog - The project is established as a reasonable idea, but hasn't been committed to. Note: more speculative ideas live in our Fusion for the Future Github repo.
- On-Hold - When a project is blocked for some reason out of our control, the card ends up here.
- Product Definition - The project is ready for requirements and design, as necessary. Technical requirements are evaluated during the product definition stage.
- Up Next - The project is ready for development, when development resources are available.
- In-Development - Execution of the project is in-progress.
- Shipped - Project has been shipped, and is soaking before evaluation.
- Evaluation - We're looping back on the project, determining how it was successful and where it feel short, and establishing next steps.
Our Experiments Board is where we keep track of Product Design experiences being run in Optimizely.
The Tech Blog Board is where we keep track of the blog posts we're working on for our section of the website.
Feel free to create cards as you have ideas. Linking to an editable Google Doc from within the card is a good way to offer a scratchpad for collaborative writing/editing. The Fusion art department will help you with art if you find them on Slack. We also encourage trying lists, galleries, and other content types – dog food at its finest.