Likelihood to Recommend If you need transparency around your workloads the product is great as it is easy to use and visually tells a story. It is ideal for SCRUM management as it plays into the ideas of Sprint Read full review We continue to remain the only professional baseball team that utilizes NOVAtime for our scheduling of staff, mostly because it was designed to schedule hospital workers. The lag time when updating the ASM is extremely time consuming and the inability to work in multiple internet tabs or windows makes it that much more inefficient. I am sure it is a fantastic system for other organizations but it continues to be a challenge for us.
Read full review Pros Great for supporting SCRUM as part of Agile deliveries. We use the ToDo, Doing and Done and build GANNT charts to facilitate resource planning. We use it at a department level to manage workloads and help staff know what work is waiting for them and the relative priority. We have deployed it across the organisation and also work with suppliers and offshore development teams to coordinate activities. Read full review The report database is very extensive--there is a report for everything Easy to use Various ways for EEs and supervisors to access information Read full review Cons Occasionally hangs at login but this may be to do with our authentication service. It would be nice when grouping cards together if there was an option to lay them over each other in a fan arrangement. Read full review There does need to be more support and knowledge when it comes to alternate workweek schedule types (9/80, etc.), as there have been a few unique challenges with those. Read full review Likelihood to Renew The overall satisfaction within the organization has been luke warm, at best. The software may be more conducive for a hospital but I believe there is a reason why we are the lone baseball team utilizing it.
Read full review Usability On the employee's side of things, Novatime is pretty intuitive and fairly easy to use. All they have to do is either press a button to punch in or punch out. If they are entering in their hours, all they have to do is type in the number of hours per day. On the manager's side of things, Novatime is also fairly easy to use. It highlights in red any missed punches and in green any OT that the employee has. There are links on the homepage of the manager's page that will lead them to a list of all their employees' missed punches for a pay period and they can fix them all before payroll is due. Novatime becomes a bit more complicated on the administrator's side. The issues I have run into with Novatime normally come after updates/upgrades to their system. They have been getting better, but the administrator's side is still a bit clunky and takes a while to find what you are looking for. It is not as intuitive as the other sides and takes a bit of computer knowledge to figure it out.
Read full review Support Rating The program itself can be customized in many different ways to meet the needs of the company/organization that it is working with. The charts/graphs on the new homepage are somewhat helpful and link to useful information. It has some really nice scheduling features that allow managers to see the difference between hours expected to work and actual hours worked as well as overtime, absences, and non-scheduled shifts. Processing payroll is quite simple. PTO request off is straightforward.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have used
MS Project previously but ended up doing things in spreadsheets so KanBanchi has bridged this gap for us
Read full review The product is easy to use, and everyone picks up on it quickly. It is less expensive, and has more to offer than any other product I’ve found.
Read full review Return on Investment We have seen great value in our planning for Agile deliveries especially when applying it to SCRUM. Using the product we have found it quickly surfaces resource constraints and blockers when planning for projects. Read full review We have had a few scenarios where the PTO accrual dropped off and it did take 3 attempts of reaching out to customer service to get it sorted. The customer service team has collaborated with me in creating new PTO categories to automate certain needs to save me some time. Read full review ScreenShots Kanbanchi for G Suite Screenshots