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Platform and migration

Usually the thing being migrated from.

Trello holds lightweight boards, frequently created by teams outside any central administration and shared more widely than anyone tracked. Our work is consolidating boards into the governed estate, and the access questions that surface on the way.

Trello holds work that started outside the governed estate. Most of our involvement is moving that work into a system where access and reporting are answerable.

What it is

Trello holds lightweight boards, frequently created by teams outside any central administration and shared more widely than anyone tracked.

before after one platform separate instances, separate permission models L1 L2 L3 L4

What it does

Low friction to start

Which is its strength, and is also why it accumulates outside administration.

Sharing that outruns governance

Board access is granted by the person who made it, which is fine until somebody asks who can see it.

Where it fits

L2, platform and migration. It is usually the source rather than the destination. Boards created outside the governed estate are where work and access sit without an owner, which is precisely the pattern the rest of the Stack exists to fix.

Where it earns its place

An organization consolidating shadow tooling

Boards holding real work outside any access review, found during a migration inventory.

A team that outgrew it

Work that now needs workflow, permissions, and reporting has outgrown a board, and moving it is straightforward.

Questions we get

Should we keep using it?
For genuinely lightweight work, sometimes yes. The question is whether anything on a board would matter in an access review, and if so it belongs in the governed estate.

Licensing

Trello is often billed separately from the main estate and is a common find during a licensing audit. That reconciliation sits with the rest of the estate in licensing and renewals.

Find out what you are actually running.

Fixed scope. The assessment reads the estate as it is: instances, schemes, licensing, and the decisions a migration would force you to make anyway. You get the findings, the ownership gaps, and the order to close them in.