[teampractices] Trellos & Minglers, what is blocking your migration to Phabricator?

[Arthur Richards]

PS another demonstration of the value of the feature: this feature itself
was one of the primary reasons the mobile web team migrated from Mingle to
Trello
On Nov 13, 2014 8:22 AM, "Arthur Richards" <arichards at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I forgot the importance of the feature Jared describes until I started
> using Phabricator regularly. The auto updating of Trello is invaluable when
> you are collaboratively planning/managing/defining work with your team -
> especially if the team is at all distributed. Like during standup or
> backlog grooming when multiple people are looking at the board from
> different devices, it can be really difficult for everyone to keep up and
> it becomes disruptive when people need to repeatedly ask 'oh should I
> refresh again?'
>
> The lack of this feature in Phabricator may seem like just a minor
> inconvenience to some. But I believe it's been an integral part of teams
> feeling like they can move fast with minimal friction in the planning
> process. From talking with others, the mobile folks in particular, not
> having this feature in Phabricator could be enough to prevent their
> willingness to migrate.
>
> Preliminary results from the Q1 health check survey show that every team
> surveyed wishes they can go faster. Our tools play a big part in either
> contributing to or reducing the amount of friction a team feels. While it
> may be too ambitious for 'Day 1', we should give these kinds of features
> for Phabricator a high priority if we rally hope to see every team relying
> on the tool for project management.
> On Nov 13, 2014 12:03 AM, "Jared Zimmerman" <jzimmerman at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Matt, you are correct, no editing of the same field, however edits once
>> saved are dynamically pushed out without a page refresh by other users.
>> This makes sure everyone is looking at the most up to date info at all
>> times. This is not the case with phabricator yet.
>>
>> sent while mobile
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen <
>> mflaschen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/23/2014 04:18 AM, Jared Zimmerman wrote:
>>> > multi-user simultaneous editing.
>>>
>>> I don't think Trello actually allows simultaneous editing of the same
>>> field (e.g. multiple people editing the description together Etherpad
>>> style).
>>>
>>> If people are editing different fields, than Phabricator should work
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> Matt Flaschen
>>>
>>>
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