Member actions

Member actions are incredibly helpful because assigning a person to a card makes it easy to filter cards and determine who gets notifications about a card. It’s also a great way to track capacity and workload management.

Figure 7.10 – Member actions

Since card members are tied to so many other aspects of Trello, such as filters, views, and, perhaps most importantly, notifications, it’s important to make sure the right people are on the right cards at all times. If you think about it, you probably have a pretty systematic way of adding people to your cards, no matter how you use Trello.

For instance, you might have your designer take over the card when it moves to a certain stage in your marketing board, or you might have your product manager assigned to any newly added cards to evaluate their importance. Once you determine a system for who gets what, you can save yourself time each week by avoiding the manual...