Is it possible to add story points and velocity tracking to Trello?

Question

I really like what Trello can do if only it could also have story points and trajectory for projects. Is there any way of doing that?

Answer 1

We couldn't wait for the api to be released. So we developed a Chrome Extension that adds story points to Trello.

The functionality is very lightweight. Just add the storypoints for a card within parentheses, like:

(4) As a user I want to click a button.

The extension will automatically pick up the story points and nicely show them in the upper right corner of the card. All the story points within a list are counted and the total is shown in the list title.

You can find the extension in the Chrome Webstore or get the code over at http://github.com/Q42/TrelloScrum.

As for velocity tracking, I prefer to do that in a separate spreadsheet and do my analysis there.

Answer 2

According to their FAQ, no:

Is there a way to generate story points to use with my Agile team? Kind of. I guess story points are an estimate of how long something will take to do. This falls into the idea of a custom property for a card that you’d like to have meaning. For example, if your Trello board was a Sales Leads board, you might want all your cards to have potential deal size $$$ on them. Right now we don’t want to cram Trello into any specific use, so something like this would have to be provided by a custom plugin (see the API question).

http://blog.trello.com/trello-common-questions/

Answer 3

You can add custom titles to the labels representing different points, like this: .

You can then use filters to count 1 point cards, 5 point cards etc. It's far from ideal kanban though, which is a shame as this looks like a really good, free system for it.

Answer 4

This Trello report generator has velocity tracking included. I've not managed to get it to work but then not used it much!

http://klodio.github.com/treport/#

Answer 5

The API has been released, and there are certainly ways to do this yourself with custom programming now.

You might also want to check out other Trello add-ons, like ChartBreeze: http://www.chartbreeze.com