CardBoard Erfahrungen

The easy way to Story Mapping

Kommentare: It's a useful tool which gets the job done. You sign up, and create a board without even thinking about the functions. It's that easy. Especially after they updated the interface. Keep in mind the tool is more in the freeform category - you can place anything anywhere in a grid - it won't require you to put specific things in specific slots. The drawback of it is that while it is comfortable, it can't fully integrate with task/issue tracking tools.

Vorteile:

While working with paper and stickies is the most quick tool to adopt, sometimes a digital one is required, as it provides certain benefits (quick editing; sharing; remote collaboration). I liked that it required zero learning for the basics. I just did the storymaps without a hitch, no wondering how I can do this or that. Of course, it provides some advanced functionality, but for the pure, basic, stickies-on-the-wall, experience, you there isn't a learning curve. Just plug and do.

Nachteile:

The free version is said to work like the GitHub model - all boards are public. Everyone can see them and browse them. So far so good. However, unlike GitHub where you can use one of several ways to get your repository to other people (sharing a link, inviting them, telling them the name of the repo...) I didn't find any of it here. I could not share the free board to my colleagues (even for viewing). There is a workaround with exporting, which can get the job done. I understand this is their business model, but then the site should not describe it working as GitHub's public repos, as it, in practice, differs as an end result.

CardBoard

Kommentare: I stumbled upon CardBoard a long time ago (2011) when I wanted an easy way to capture a Story Map. I really liked how easy it was to drop cards, move them around, and add some comments. The Team really enjoyed the look and feel of it. It did what we wanted and nothing more. I'm not a heavy user of it, but when I do need to put together a Story Map, CardBoard is what I turn to.

Vorteile:

The simplicity of the tool, it provided me with what I wanted and did not over complicate it with features I did not need.

Nachteile:

The export to excel option was pretty messy, but then again why export it? What I wanted was a way to capture the full board visually to put into a document or communication, to show the overall Story Map (which I could not get in screen shots) I realize I could provide a link to the board for people to access and see the actual Map, but sometimes you just want a picture of it to support a communication.

Good idea, missing features, buggy

Kommentare: - Bad and Good
- The central idea of the board is nice
- Everything around seems to have been donc in a rush
- Management of teams are just a mess
- The idea a public boards, not searchable, messy . .. give you just a bad image
- Not intuitive (except for the cards management)

Vorteile:

- The idea - The fact that their is not real alternative to the product (not saying it's a good product, just not worst than competition) - Easy to use and simple - The journey feature

Nachteile:

- Buggy - The pricing model - Missing at least a crucial features: descent printing (what do you think teams do with a Story Map) - When you move things cards do not reorganized as expected and we end to have to move many cards across the screen. I should not be forced to think in advance what to enter first to avoid delating and moving things around after.

Cardboardit for developing roadmaps and communicating with stakeholders

Kommentare: The tool is great for presenting the roadmap to leadership, stakeholders, and Engineers. I would highly recommend it, however, would also suggest getting enough licences for all folks on your team due to the limited export capabilities.

Vorteile:

The application is intuitive and it's very easy to demonstrate the importance of technical debt to stakeholders.

Nachteile:

The export capability is limited. The description of the cards can not be exported without printing each card individually. The board view PDF export is not as user friendly/aesthetically pleasing as the actual application. Stakeholders are asking for PDF exports, however, I hesitate to share due to the aforementioned reasons.

Good but with some hiccups

Kommentare: I found the software quite useful for basic storyboarding and brainstorming new projects. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the JIRA integration and the nature of the work I'm doing, it just wasn't useful for anything other than large/complicated projects that need a fair amount of planning and it could only be used in the initial stages. Once I had the list of story "slugs" it was better to manually migrate the list over to JIRA and cease using Cardboard.

Vorteile:

I quite liked the intuitive interface and ease of storyboarding things.

Nachteile:

The JIRA integration left something to be desired. The software did not do a good job of informing me of what it would do when I synced the two. It was also not clear to me that this was not a constant sync. Changes in one product were not automatically migrated over to the other. This was especially problematic because later syncs of the stories and epics caused duplicates of the previously synchronized items to appear because the system did not identify previously sync'd stories.

Great for planning, JIRA integration needs work

Vorteile:

The simplicity of the boards are fantastic and have caused several others in my company to adopt the product as well. It is great for visualizing plans to stakeholders, and for them to see the breakdown of the features and when development will happen

Nachteile:

The JIRA integration needs work. We use JIRA extensively, with multiple boards for various work streams. The integrator on the Cardboard side does not allow for customization over what is being pulled, and therefore cannot filter out technical tasks when I only want the user stories coming through. This needs to be fixed for it to get 5 stars.

Best I've found so far

Vorteile:

It's open ended with what I can do. I like being able to move the cards anywhere I want, the user journey functionality is a great idea, and it creates a good visual.

Nachteile:

The number one issue is the navigation and use of the software. Moving cards around quickly and moving around the board (especially when sharing my screen) needs a lot of work. If it the use of this software improved, it would be my main story board. I still use a physical board for working sessions because of this.

An Easy to Use Product

Vorteile:

I didn't such software existed until I got to the agile world and someone invited me to CardBoard. My first impression was that it allowed teams to collaborate globally with ease. The cardboards are easily adjustable and organizable to however you want.

Nachteile:

In the beginning I was a bit confused on how the product worked given that I was invited or part of many different boards so it was a tidy difficult to access or find the board I needed to see.

Great Kanban view board

Kommentare: Overall Cardboard is a great tool to use. They could add more flexibility to use and maybe more sticky variants like various shapes . But over all, we love the integrations and ease of use

Vorteile:

We use Cardboard for our Scrum/ Kanban feature view of backlog and it’s very flexible to use. We also use Pivotal tracker. The integration works like a charm !!

Nachteile:

Better look and feel. Dynamic multi person use at a time. Make it a collaberative tool !

Perfection that's seemless

Kommentare: In one work amazing. It was a tremendous help during or Sprite Zero. Thank you for an awesome product.

Vorteile:

The most appealing part of the software was how easy it is to use. Everything is seemless and smooth.

Nachteile:

Only recommend changes I would say is to allow overlapping notes.

Product Team - Priorities

Kommentare: Overall, this has changed my teams approach of how we work with the business! It is a great interactive tool and our business stakeholders love walking through the roadmap and scope in this collaborative tool!

Vorteile:

The software simply and quickly allows us to build the framework (skeleton/backbone) of the business process and how technology supports through through the power of cards. Through this process we able to quickly understand our knowledge gaps. The journey feature also provides focus during deeper discussions.

Nachteile:

Most of the quirks were address in the latest update (biggest being the introduction of colors and new layouts). However, we still struggle with the printing capabilities and how if needed we need to share in a planning session.

CardBoard Review

Kommentare: OK, because
did not found anything else so far providing same experience working with sticky notes, for mixed teams (co-located and not).

Vorteile:

Do story mapping workshops having something similar to sticky notes, if teams are not co-located (which is the best, but not always achievable). Even if local parts are done in analog way, we transform it to cardboard in order to keep the high level overview and be able to tell others the "the story" in order to get them involved.

Nachteile:

Managing large boards is hard, but sure ... not really easy, if you do not have such large physical boards and flipchart papers you can move arround in an room ... Analog workshops do support paint anything to the board/flipchart-paper (arrows, little pictures, "links by arrows this related to that) => not really possible with cardboard (in the same you it happens in such analog workshops)

Great story mapping tool

Kommentare: Electronic tools for story mapping are really hard to come by. Fortunately we have found CardBoard.

Vorteile:

The best thing about Cardboard is that it offers other modes of use, e.g. integrating to JIRA or printing cards for real world manipulation.

Nachteile:

Sharing (allowing Viewers) for a large community is constrained by either configuration (public vs private) or administration (long list of emails.)

Cardboard

Vorteile:

Cardboard is easy and simple to use. Doesn't take much to get up and running. Nice for sharing story maps with remote users. Great for small story maps.

Nachteile:

A little too simple. It becomes hard to manage with bigger maps.

New version is greatly improved over previous version

Vorteile:

Love that you can now copy/paste within each story. Like that you can enter more information in the Description about the story and record Discussions.

Nachteile:

Navigating is still cumbersome at times when you have a lot of stories

Love it

Kommentare: I love it.

Vorteile:

This is very easy to use. I enjoy the interface but there are some small hurdles getting set up. Nothing that would slow you down.

Nachteile:

The initial setup of the board is a little tough. It would be nice if there were more templates which showed different ways to use the software after picking a theme or something.

Easy tool to implement storymaps within an org

Kommentare: We are trying to make a storymap interactive within the organization and it's been an effective tool where people feel involved with the decisions.

Vorteile:

It is stupid simple. So easy to share with others, make changes, and easily add notes for a card that should be investigated.

Nachteile:

As storymaps get larger, navigation does get a bit tricky moving horizontally using the trackpad without triggering Back in the browser.

A great little tool

Kommentare: We were able to plan our projects very easily, without the tool getting in the way.

Vorteile:

Easy to understand, even of you don't understand user story mapping

Nachteile:

Needs more features, such as better TFS integration.

Journeys Best Friend

Kommentare: We use cardboard to document our story mapping sessions with business, ux and tech and then slice them into journeys to start breaking up stories and get better estimations for the work ahead of us.

Vorteile:

Ability to map out and then create journeys to be able to get into TFS

Nachteile:

Difficult to set up accounts for multiple employees that are on different projects

Cardboard review

Vorteile:

I love the ease of adding cards up on the board and the software. Helps with project management.

Nachteile:

Learning curve. Should be easier to learn

CardBoard made easy and not much to it

Vorteile:

ease of jotting down any process , project notes and not having to rewrite everything. Easy to move steps and reorganize Easy to share with immediate group network

Nachteile:

The only issue I have is it is not easy to download and share with other that do not have the same tool

Cardboard is a good tool

Vorteile:

Cardboard is very easy to use. It allows us to quickly add user stories in story planning and to then determine how to slice the stories to create meaningful deliverables.

Nachteile:

It's still a bit clunky. Moving several stories at once is difficult.

Easy to use; digital post-its

Kommentare: CardBoard has been incredibly easy to use - which is why I keep using it. It allows me to get a digital feature map produced in a short amount of time. I love the collaboration feature and the drag and drop interface.

Vorteile:

The simplicity: dragging and dropping cards. It's like 'digital post-it notes'.

Nachteile:

When I want to add more details (on the back of the cards), there's no formatting options. Also, if I want to add a column or row in the middle, I need to shift out every individual card.

Great for designing

Kommentare: We were looking at creating a new applications and used CardBoard to develop and organize our ideas.

Vorteile:

It is very easy to use, the interface is great.

Nachteile:

Don't have any complaints. Perhaps having more colours to chose for the stickies.

cardboard

Kommentare: real-time virtual collaboration for distributed teams.

Vorteile:

simple, straight-forward interface. ability to export and/or link to other common apps.

Nachteile:

nothing specific. opens additional browser windows when downloading.