Trello for Project Management at a Distance
Channel: Alanna King
Date: 2021-05-29

As a newbie to project management, but as a veteran of online learning and teaching, I was very much impacted by the case scenario we were given for our class discussion “Preparing for Assignment 2”.  During the preparation for this discussion using a global and virtual project management scenario, I developed a much deeper appreciation for the complexities of virtual collaboration.  Additionally, I have volunteered to develop conference programming for two years for the Ontario Library Association’s Superconference, which attracts 6000 participants per year, using a tool called Slack for communication.  Slack and Trello have been highly recommended in many fields including education, library and software development for their support of agile project management models.  Having experienced Slack firsthand, I was eager to learn more about Trello for this project. Most of the sources I found spoke to the analytical use of Trello in the corporate world, as Trello developed new integrations.  However these three sources analysed the benefits and the deficiencies of this tool and maintained a critical eye.

As my response to the project developed, I realized that actually Trello is the resource that I’m exploring, and that the various research sources I found that analyzed Trello helped me to see how this resource could be adapted in so many different project contexts.  However I still really needed to both use Trello, and see it in action in order to develop.  This video then is much lengthier than originally signed.  Excuse my enthusiasm then, as the resource is the video which is about the resource Trello, which was influenced by my research resources.