In the specific case of my current employer I can say that we have enough budget to pay a few dollars per seat per day without blinking, and we'd choose this option even if a hosted Trello option was ten times cheaper.
There are two main constraints that need to be taken into account where I work when it comes to buying things:
Firstly, variable pricing models are a no-go. We'll happily pay well over the odds to secure abundant capacity but we need to know in advance with absolute certainty exactly how much it will cost for a full year of service.
Secondly, we deal with potentially sensitive information that could be damaging to our organisation and our government if it were in any way compromised. Because of this we need to retain control of the data we'd store in any kind of issue tracking or collaboration system.
Trello is clearly a great tool and I hope Joel et al do well with it. It's a great tool for agile teams to use, and I can only blame the bureaucracy of my organisation for preventing my small team's ability to use it.
I tried to pitch Trello to a company I know that I think could have really made good use of it, but their objection was the same, uncomfortable with not having their development tasking and customer issues stored "in house."
In the specific case of my current employer I can say that we have enough budget to pay a few dollars per seat per day without blinking, and we'd choose this option even if a hosted Trello option was ten times cheaper.
There are two main constraints that need to be taken into account where I work when it comes to buying things:
Firstly, variable pricing models are a no-go. We'll happily pay well over the odds to secure abundant capacity but we need to know in advance with absolute certainty exactly how much it will cost for a full year of service.
Secondly, we deal with potentially sensitive information that could be damaging to our organisation and our government if it were in any way compromised. Because of this we need to retain control of the data we'd store in any kind of issue tracking or collaboration system.
Trello is clearly a great tool and I hope Joel et al do well with it. It's a great tool for agile teams to use, and I can only blame the bureaucracy of my organisation for preventing my small team's ability to use it.