Likelihood to Recommend Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Well suited in:
Project management from estimate creation to final billing. Time tracking per job. Delegating tasks internally (and externally if choosing to use this feature). Creative agency environments where jobs have many moving parts and employees working on. Customer contact information management. Internal creative collaboration (brainstorming). Management oversight allowing team leads to review hours logged per employee to each job. Read full review Kanban is well suited for a fast-paced working environment for larger teams who want continuous communication with users. Kanban is good for rapid development and daily meetings for updates and statuses. Kanban is less suited for smaller teams or groups who don't require collaboration and constant communication with involved users. Kanban is time-consuming and it takes additional effort outside of your regular work to maintain and manage the tool.
Read full review Pros Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Time tracking - like several time tracking solutions, FP uses a clock that will track in real time so that you do not need to remember how long you worked on a project to input later. Dashboards - I love FP's dashboards that let me track my personal utilization, the utilization of my team members and all of my open tasks. Reporting - FP's reports provide insight organization-wide into how we are doing and where we (as an organization) are spending our time. As with any reporting, though, it is important to manage the cleanliness of your data to make the reporting useful. Read full review It provides a good basic overview of where tasks are on a timeline (particularly helpful for a pull-based approach). It provides a good collaborative space to have multiple folks commenting on multiple tasks. It does a good job of managing very basic visual elements of an agile development cycle. Chris Carpenter Staff Project Manager, Awesomizer, Fixer, Maker, Collaboration Enabler
Read full review Cons Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Function Point often provided reports that were inaccurate due to bad calculations. The support team would work with us to troubleshoot these issues, but the fact remained that calculations were wrong. Function Point was purchased by a new parent company that increased prices over their nearest, superior, competitor, pricing themselves out of the market. Function Point's interface is dated, as is its code base. New features are being implemented not as software revisions or upgrades, but as new for-pay features. Read full review Kanban does not show the task or story clearly. You have to open the project separately to view the details of the project. Kanban gives a higher level project management view but it lacks customization and personal settings features. I would like to see Kanban provide mobile access to their tool, data, and board. This would be very useful for all companies and provide an increase in efficiency and productivity. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
We are more likely than not to renew our use of Kanban. Even with its limits, it still is a good product that fulfills our needs.
Read full review Usability Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Again, this is a strong tool for software teams using Agile that are distributed across multiple geographies. It can be good for co-located teams too, but there are better platforms on the market like
JIRA that provide a more built-out story.
Chris Carpenter Staff Project Manager, Awesomizer, Fixer, Maker, Collaboration Enabler
Read full review Support Rating Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Receive weekly emails from FP team about new features being added and webinars to review. Always extremely reliable and quick to respond with answers to questions or concerns. Includes function for their clients to make recommendations to their platform. Allows for customization on the back end to provide the best solution/functions for each client. Read full review This is the best tool I had a chance to work with- since I started to use it I saved a lot of time and I made my work go smoothly.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Workamajig was NOT a good fit, after over a year of back-end setup.
FunctionFox didn't have the financial integration capabilities we needed, but we used it for years and were happy with the service and support. FunctionPoint brought together the 30,000-foot view of the projects and resources with a simplified process for getting day-to-day jobs into the queue, which was essential for our organization.
Read full review We've only tried JIRA Agile and KanbanFlow before. Kanban Tool was the one that our team actually liked and enjoyed working with. Also - it's been much easier to get started with and to understand than some of the other two (JIRA in particular). Although JIRA has many more features that we would have possibly used, the user feedback on it was so poor we were afraid that the negativity would create time wasted and less "job satisfaction" amongst the team.
Read full review Return on Investment Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
We have a much more timely and accurate sense of our financials since switching to FunctionPoint Our team is more efficient at tracking time, and we are much more able to track resources and profitability Our accounting manager is able to use Quick Books in a much more efficient manner than previously Read full review Better communication and organization of ongoing projects. We are a very small team, with many areas to work on. Having everything in one system gives us a lot of visibility. Greatly reduced costs from using other tools that were much more expensive. Read full review ScreenShots