Digital Transformation

To illustrate this concept, let’s look at how we use an electronic board solution to keep track of our projects and tasks: Trello. But before, some context about the way we work around here: we use agile principles to manage our internal affairs and most projects with our customers and external stakeholders. Throughout our meetings and brainstorming sessions, we rely on paper boards and post-it notes to capture ideas, draft user stories, and estimate the length of a task or a project. Trello then gives us a simple way to compile and track our to-dos, milestones, tasks, and requirements to accomplish our goals. Simple agile principles that we live and die for!

Now bring digital transformation into the picture. Up until recently, we used to take pictures of all of our post-it notes to later input that information on Trello. Sometimes, one of us would stay in the room until he or she finishes loading all the information online. Then, things changed when 3M and Atlassian teamed together to integrate the Post-it® App with Trello. Now, when you take a picture of a sticky note with the App, you can import it into Trello boards directly without the need to transcribe or import dozens of pictures individually. This simple digital change, called a transformation, has saved us hours (literally!) of clerical work that we can now spend on our own projects and tasks, and bringing more value to our customers.