First, I am new with Atlassian. Long range Project Management

drob_krob

I am with a non-profit organization as a project manager.  We have been using Jira as a scrum model.  We are realizing the power of this in getting tasks listed and accomplished however, we feel that without an overall project management life cycle tool.  Jira is just a slice.  It is currently serving a scrum manager with asking us to update where we are with tasks with the status's of to do, in progress and done within a week.  So rather than managing a program, we are managing individual tasks without context to the larger program.

Is it possible Trellis is what we should be using or does Trellis feed Jira

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Trello is not an issue tracker, it's a noteboard.  You can use it as a simple issue tracker, but you're going in the wrong direction.  You would need to add a huge pile of powerups to get it to do even the most basic project management that Jira has built-in!

Jira is an issue tracker, and as such, has reporting built into it that your Scrum manager could be looking at to see progress.  Trello does not have anywhere near as much reporting, and, more importantly, your people would have to do way more managing of individual tasks in Trello to be able to generate the reports, even if you were to start using Trello and automate feeds into Jira.

The thing I think you need to look at is how you are using Jira.  A big part of it is that your Scrum team members should be able to concentrate on their work, rather than constantly having to update Trello cards.  If they do the minimum to stay on top of their Jira issues (simply dragging a card to the right column when the status changes), then Jira automatically has all the data it needs to provide reports to all sorts of people.  To keep on top of a Trello card, your users will have to be shifting them between lists and updating all the reporting fields on them every single change.