Likelihood to Recommend FogBugz has been a very useful tool to our organization, and much preferred over other options we reviewed, mainly
JIRA . There are still some improvements needed, but with the fairly recent acquisition by DevFactory, we have a great deal of hope for what is in store given DevFactory's focus and transparency. It seems like both DevFactory and FogBugz customers are eager for substantial improvements on the front-end, but there is/was a great deal of backend housecleaning that definitely needed to take place first.
Read full review I think Planner is a good platform for manage projects especially if I think that is integrated in MS Teams so, with a unique platform you can have the control about the project, about all the documents linked to the same project and at the same time, with the possibility to chat with other team members without change platform. I think also there are other platform (like
Jira or
Trello ) which are better in terms of layout
Read full review Pros Tasks, Subtasks, and notes. All three of these areas were critical for our team. Tasks in Fogbugz were a bit easier to see than in more bug based software like Trello or JIRA The entire screen is used to view a task or case. Clicking on a task or case will open up and take up the entire screen, aside from the sidebar nav columns. I like to see details and I think Fogbugz does this very well, using up as much digital real estate as possible. Flowcharting in Fogbugz with Creately is nice - instead of getting an exterior flowchart software like Lucidchart, Creately works right in Fogbugz. Read full review Add as many plans as you want Keeps tasks organized via Buckets into each plan Ability to create a plan directly within Teams via the Tasks app Read full review Cons The simplicity of a single admin type user is not great because anyone who can create a job or client in the system, can also add and delete users. Content and User administrative rights should be separated. There are ways to change the terminology/lexicon within the tool, but we are not able to get it to work even after reaching out to tech support. So we are forced to use the system terminology that doesn't match up to our company making training a bit difficult. There is a subscribe function that you can opt into, there should be a way to add subscribers as you create a new task. Read full review Would be nice to see a calendar view instead of a list view Permissions aren't configurable, anyone can delete any task at any time and there is no recycle bin Notifications aren't great, you have to be attached as an owner to a task to see comments and be notified of changes, and even then notifications aren't shown for a lot of things Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's not up to me, but if it were, I would not recommend using this. It is another work productivity app, which, while it has its benefits, can actually detract instead of enhance work productivity.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I like
JIRA a lot better than Fogbugz for many reasons. If I had a choice, I'd use
JIRA every time
Read full review Many areas of the company still use
Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year we will not renew the
Trello contract.
Read full review Return on Investment Saves time by quickly allowing Developers to make the necessary notes without getting bogged down in bloated UIs Has allowed us to look back easily and see the exact code changes made for the exact Case to aid in decisions for current changes, increasing the certainty of the decided path, without regression Read full review It definitely have a positive impact in terms of ROI. as it is a part of Microsoft Suite so no need to put extra for its integration with teams or office It also allows communication/chatting between team on any task and things can be clear on the spot in a timely manner Read full review ScreenShots