As you can see on the picture above, there are five columns. Each contains cards:

- Ideas contains all the… ideas 😃 listed in cards. These tasks are not yet validated and therefore can’t be implemented. Of course, anyone at anytime can add a new idea

- Todo gathers all the tasks validated by the team and which need to be treated. When someone is free, he can choose any card on the list, add his name, and move it to the Doing column.

- To integrate lists all the cards ready to be integrated. All the instructions and resources’ links (Google drive, Dropbox, and more) are present within the card so anyone who is available to integrate it doesn’t need external help.

- Done contains all the achieved tasks (obviously 🙃)

Trello will allow us to define on each card who is concerned (dev, sound, graphic, etc.) by using colored tags.

In addition, before moving a card to Todo column, we will have to estimate the amount of time needed to accomplish and integrate the task. Time will be defined in hour, with half and quarter allowed. By experience, it always takes more time than estimated to complete a task. We should keep that in mind, and define a longer tasks’ time, to avoid bad surprises during the game jam. A great way to limit this phenomenon is to split tasks in smaller tasks which are easier to estimate with an higher precision.

Bonus: Using Firefox/Chrome plugin « Scrum For Trello » will allow us to automatically get the total amount of tasks’ time per column.

I hope all of this make sens. As you can see, it’s pretty simple and straightforward. Even big companies are using Trello on daily-basis.

Believe me, this is very efficient and I’m confident we can save a lot of time during the event.

Do not hesitate to leave a comment if you have any suggestion or feedback to share.

Happy Jam! 😉