Trello – Using Trello for a parallelized process

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I have a business process where one entity comes into the process, and several things have to happen for that entity in parallel by different teams. At any point, we want to know how many of the things are completed for that entity.

One way to do it is to have a list for each thing that needs to happen, plus an initial list, and a "done" list. A webhook fires when a card is created in the initial list, making a copy of the card for each list. When each team finishes, they put their card in "done", and another webhook fires, updating the original card, and eventually moving it when everything is finished.

This seems a bit complicated, though. Am I going about it wrong? Am I trying to twist trello into something it's not?

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Depending on the complexity of the work to be done, I would either:

Model each entity as a card, with a checklist item or checklist for each thing that has to be done, and add the point person from each team to the card.
Model each entity as a board, with a card for each task and a list for each team, and a 'Done' list for completed tasks

. . . but of course you may just be in a situation where Trello is not the right tool. If it's something that you would naturally choose to model as cards in lists on a corkboard, then Trello is usually a good way to go.

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Trello – How to group things in Trello (like scenarios under a feature)

There are only up to 5 or 6 lists that can be viewable at the same time.

So the two options would be to use:

A Card as the feature and the description for user stories
A List as the feature and Card for user stories

In the first option I would imagine it would have to be something like

My yard always needs cleaning

Here you would need to add up the points manually (Or create a userscript/extenstion see next option).

In the second option you can use this Chrome Extension to take care of your user points and let cards handle user stories. As you said this can be come unmanageable with next up/in progress/review/ so then you would have to keep the tracking cards to the left and the feature to the right on your board. When a new activity appears on a board ensure it is "bubbled" to the left as the most recent feature update. Assigning members can also ensure nothing is forgotten.

The door is always jammed

Trello – Using code in Trello Cards

It does work, you are mostly likely placing a block after a list. Consider separating it with a header

---
    #include<stdio.h>
    int main()
^ Four spaces

Will turn into this in your card

#include<stdio.h>
int main()

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