Is Trello and Jira a good pair for project collaboration and brainstorming?

[Lalitakaa@Teck]

Hi all,

I were looking for a project management tool initially on the internet, and found Trello is an interesting visual tool. As we are an NGO dealing with professors to farmers, a simple and friendly tool is required so as even farmers who are IT illiterate can use it.

I then create a board for brainstorming, the outcome and feedback is good. When we use Trello for budget planning then something seems missing.

After reading the website of Atlassian, then I identify JIRA is good for planning ad project management and confluence is good for knowledge and document management.

My question is is these three products complement each other and form a good solution for an ego to plan, manage and run its operation? 

Can the visual card of Trello be converted or link to the JIRA? Can Trello be the visual component of JIRA?

Thanks in advance

Take care,
Teck

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Lalitakaa@Teck,

In short, these 3 products definitely do complement each other!

Your Trello boards can be easily linked to a Jira instance. If you used a Trello board for brainstorming and feedback etc, these Trello cards can be linked to existing Jira tasks, or new Jira tasks can be created from these Trello cards, and will copy across all the information within the Trello card.

There are also Jira add-ons available to allow you to sync tasks in a Jira project to cards on a Trello board, so when you make a change to one, the changes are automatically copied across to the other - e.g. a workflow status change in Jira can automatically make the Trello card change columns - see a good example here.

Confluence is great for documentation, and within Confluence there are 'Macros' which can add some cool additional functionality to a Confluence Page. For example, there's a 'Trello board macro' which allows you to imbed a trello board within a Confluence page - see more info on this here.

Confluence and Jira can also easily be linked, so all 3 of these products are able to communicate with each other.

Hope this helps!

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_]

In addition to this, you can share a Trello board with whoever you wish (a team, an organisation, the general public), which can be used as your 'front of house' ideas area, e.g. a public roadmap or something, but then you can restrict the permissions for your Jira/Confluence instances so that this can only be accessed by your team/colleagues

[Lalitakaa@Teck]

Thanks @Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_ , I will explore the Jira and Confluence then.

As for the second reply, not quite understand the "restrict the permissions for your Jira/Confluence instances". 

thanks n take care,

teck

[Lalitakaa@Teck]

I shall put the second question as a question by itself. is it ok?

take care,

teck

[Callum Carlile]

Lalitakaa@Teck You can raise this as a separate question if you'd prefer.

When I say "restrict the permissions for your Jira/Confluence instances", I mean that you can limit who is able to access your Jira and Confluence sites, and you can further restrict who is able to view the information in certain projects if you so wish

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_]

(Oops I seem to have used the wrong login for this last post!)