[teampractices] Mingle

[Anne Gomez]

Fundraising is still on mingle...

I just learned about a chrome extension called Scrum for Trello [1] that
apparently solves some of the estimation & reporting issues. I haven't had
a chance to look into it beyond installing the extension, so I can't verify
whether it really addresses what you/we would be looking for. Just throwing
the option out there as you're digging.

1.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scrum-for-trello/jdbcdblgjdpmfninkoogcfpnkjmndgje?hl=en


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> The analytics team has tried really hard to use Mingle as our agile
>> planning tool but we've reached the point where the ROI just isn't there
>> and we need to re-assess our use of it.
>>
>> I'm looking for some feedback from teams that have migrated from Mingle
>> -- primarily what did you migrate to and are you happy with the decision to
>> move.
>>
>> Ultimately, we'd like to use whatever the Foundation agrees on but in the
>> short term we need to make some choices.
>>
>
> The Growth team migrated to Trello from Mingle more than a year ago and
> we're much happier. IIRC we actually quit using a specialized tool in
> between, and just did wiki documentation for everything. Mingle just has
> terrible UX, and Trello works much better for a cross-functional team doing
> lighter small-a agile work. I think the Research & Data side of the
> Analytics team is also already using Trello (correct?).
>
> Trello is great, but it just doesn't do points estimation and reporting
> without some hacks. I would recommend that the Analytics migrate to it
> anyway, with the big caveat that we may want to explore encouraging all
> teams *slowly* and surely to switch to Phabricator (test instance at
> fab.wmflabs.org). That's a long term decision based on the results of the
> project management tools review though, and with blockers in Ops and
> Platform to support migration, etc. It will be discussed both on
> mediawiki.org and in Zurch at the hackathon, so if Analytics team members
> can I would encourage participation in both venues. In any case, the good
> side of Trello is that we can download/export our data as needed, and it's
> lightweight enough that a short term switch to it will not be that painful
> even if in another six-twelve months you might want to switch again.
>
> Let me know if I can help Analytics set up Trello (I am an admin on our
> WMF account there). The tool is much more flexible to configure than
> Mingle, and I could walk you through some of the options.
>
> --
> Steven Walling,
> Product Manager
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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