Trello

Trello is another task management tool. Ok, I remember, I said that I will only present one solution per problem, just one. Now, this Trello is a solution for another problem: planning and working down my developments. Thinking Scrum makes sense, even if I work alone. What motivates a customer as well as a development-team, works as well for individuals like me. In a creative process, motivation is pretty much everything aside of skill.

Screenshot of the Evenernote client

+ Scrum

Trello has a dashboard that perfectly looks like a Scrum dashboard. So you can use it to handle the individual development projects you have in an orderly way. Try it! You’ll love it. And the free plan is definitely enough.

= Manage development

I usally collect and refine my ideas using Mind-Mapping. Your mileage may vary. Subsequently, I document and further refine my concept in [[Evernote]]. I then define a high-level plan in [[Todoist]], mainly because not all in a software project is actually software. Finally I setup the low-level plan of that development feature by feature in [[Trello]]. When coding starts, all I need to do is code and burn-down the Trello-dashboard. Ok this is a bit simplified, bringing in sprints, this process becomes a bit iterative, but the structure is viable. I works for me, it will work for you.

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