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What Is CardBoard?
CardBoard is the world's #1 user story mapping app. Collaborate with you team in real-time even if they are scattered across the globe. Easy to use and helps team build products that customers love.
Sync your boards with tools like Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps, VersionOne and Pivotal Tracker. Your boards stay up to date whenever you make a change.
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Who Uses CardBoard?
Cloud-based project planning solution that helps businesses manage projects, invites, user story mapping and more via real-time collaboration, tracking tools integration and visual dashboard.
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Reviews of CardBoard
Good if you have a team that work from different places
Comments: I did enjoy using this platform. It has been helping our team to plan i the real time and it has been really easy for me because a lot of our directors work from home and my boss travels a lot. We also need to present and see presentation from other companies all around the world which has been done easily with CardBoard
Pros:
What I really like about it is ti's simplicity. It helps you to map out your projects and share it conveniently by easily changing the theme and looks.
Cons:
Some Functionality can be improved. It totally worked for our needs but some people may find it too simple for complicated projects.
CardBoard Response
5 years ago
Thank you Tahmineh for the review!
Like digital post-its
Pros:
- Allows you to keep your story map and edit it ongoing, unlike having it on the wall where it often has to come down and all you have left is a photo - Great for distributed teams
Cons:
- The lmitations are only those of doing anything on a screen, you can't step back and see the bigger picture
A great product if it's the only thing you were using.
Comments: I was attempting to bootstrap some existing teams so that they could start doing more end to end thinking about their products as we were designing and building them.
Pros:
I liked that it was very easy to use. Almost everything was very click and drag, which made it really easy to onboard new users who were new to story mapping. I also really appreciated that it let me share a story map across multiple locations. I work with teams in SF and Seattle. A physical board is a nice idea but just not possible with the way that we are distributed.
Cons:
I had some challenges with user management. I work in a large enterprise so adding users individually was a bit of a pain and it was challenge to move users from regular viewer to user or admin roles on multiple boards. I also found that bulk moves of cards was difficult. If I wanted to pick up several cards and put them between two existing rows that wasn't really possible without spending 8 or 10 minutes rearranging the other cards around it to keep the map coherent. Also our org runs on-prem JIRA and I had no way to connect JIRA and confluence together, which made it nearly impossible to keep the two in sync. This is ultimately why I stopped using the product.
Functional But Not Robust
Comments: It was functional, but it felt like there were too many obstacles in the way to be an efficient replacement for index cards and a camera. I can see it being useful for other teams but not for ours.
Pros:
The learning curve was short, so picking up CardBoard and using it was fast. Creating cards and laying them out was easy.
Cons:
The cards, as displayed, were much too small. In order to even include all of the information that a User Story requires for one side of the card much of the text was hidden. The back was always hidden. The grid layout was much too rigid, I had hoped for the ability to overlap cards. If these features were present they were not obvious. Laying out cards initially was easy, but the UI resisted efforts to move cards very far (especially using a touch interface). If I needed to move a card to a different part of the board it was almost easier to delete and recreate it than move it.
Story map layout !
Comments: Cardboardit was my favourite online post it notes but then I found Mural :) . It gave me much more than cardboardit. But that said , cardboardit was there when Mural wasn’t and pioneered the way !
Pros:
The one thing I really love is the fact that I could map out anything I want ! Any flow and which way. The multiple colours definitely help In segregating . I’ve used it as a Kanban board , for story mapping and even for roadmapping to an extent . Multi talented
Cons:
Lack of templates is something that bugs me at times. With a tool like cardboardit people could cod what not and use it for what not . I think it’s capable of much more.