Backlog vs. RationalPlan

ticket management

Appropriate as a great alternative to MS Project. RationalPlan provides most of the features needed to develop and maintain mid-level complex schedules. Less Appropriate for large complex schedules of long duration. These can be a challenge due to Duration at top-level. It is also a challenge to generate reports for management - reporting feature is limited.

• Backlog is one of the best management and collaboration tools available in the market for better managing of resources at the workplace.
• I have been using this platform for a very long time and it has been helping me a lot to manage the business processes, manage employees, managing leads on different projects, and coordinating with colleagues.
• It has been helping me a lot to check the issue in the project completion.
• It gives me real-time status on the project/gives right insights of the system.

Incentivized

• Portfolio view is great to get a feel for how your programme is running at a glance and which areas possibly might require attention. The fact that you can customise your view by adding your own columns is another plus.
• All project information in one tool is a big plus for me considering the amount of projects we run with. This really improves efficiency and saves me time. You have the ability to add documents to tasks, manage risks, email resources tasks due for projects they are assigned to(might need some refinement depending on your requirements), material db with costing etc.

• Price is very high for small teams and department of short term contracts.
• GUI can be more intuitive.

Incentivized

• Milestones should be a primary option instead of 0h to create one.

Incentivized

nice to use in the night as well

I would give 9 but one less because of the high price.

Incentivized

I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.

Backlog has all of the top-notch features to increase productivity, visibility, and project tracking. Backlog is easy to use. I first just logged in to the platform and it was [ready] to go. I easily started working on it and it started giving me the bugs’ details on our project. Always available for queries. Listen to the queries very attentively and try to give a solution on the go if applicable. Otherwise, take some time and respond with the advanced workable solution in the limited time frame.

Incentivized

RationalPlan is cost-effective and allows most users to prepare and manage their schedule. The software lacks comprehensive reporting and duration changes at the top level of a project.

• SLA should be given by single candle

• Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project

Incentivized