A technology I have been exploring is Trello. As an extremely avid user of Jira at my job, it is nice to compare and contrast the two. Although it might not be a fully fair comparison as I have had 2 years working with Jira being an administrator. My opinions on the two are as follows.
Jira’s UI feels vastly superior to Trello’s, It is clean concise. It is hard to explain, but something about Trello’s UI makes it so it all kind of blends together, where Jira feels sharp in a good way. Trello feels better right out of the box, with nearly no set up we had a good looking Kanban board that we could work with which had all of the features we could need, furthermore those features were easy to find/intuitive. There weren’t so many fields where it felt like a hassle, which often feels like what is happening for Jira at my job. Jira requires tons of upkeep and personalization, which I am sure can happen in Trello too, but the out of the box felt amazing for most uses.
My conclusion albeit after not so much time with Trello is: Trello is better for out of the box and small groups like our school projects here, where Jira is probably the best choice for a 50+ person organization that needs a lot of customization and administrator controls.
