Planview AgilePlace

Score8.3 out of 10

71 Reviews and Ratings

What is Planview AgilePlace?

AgilePlace is a project management solution built around flexibility, data-driven analytics, and workflow automation. The software was acquired by Planview in December 2017 to expand that company's capabilities.

Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of Real-Time Analytics: Utilize board health metrics involving bottlenecks, WIP, and throughput to guide the optimization of workflows, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery. Lean and Agile metrics can be used to assess team performance and promote continuous improvement.

Screenshot of PI Planning: Offers enterprise Kanban boards to visualize the work of teams regardless of the methodologies they apply or workflows they follow, and insights into progress and create opportunities for better alignment.

Screenshot of Dependency Visualization and Management: Surfaces risks to plans resulting from cross-team dependency conflicts, blockers, and capacity constraints, and helps drive proactive measures to enable teams to deliver on time.

Screenshot of Team Planning and Coordination: Boards can be used to breakdown work, build and manage plans, and execute against strategy to deliver more value to customers, faster.

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Screenshot of Real-Time Analytics: Utilize board health metrics involving bottlenecks, WIP, and throughput to guide the optimization of workflows, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery. Lean and Agile metrics can be used to assess team performance and promote continuous improvement.

Task Management
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
Category average: 8.3
Gantt Charts
Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.
Category average: 7.8
Resource Management
Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.
Category average: 8.5

Timesheet Tracking
Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.
Category average: 7.9
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.
Category average: 5.8
Mobile Access
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
Category average: 5.8

#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

26.8%

26 installations of 97

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

26.8%

26 installations of 97

#3 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

14.4%

14 installations of 97

Pam Sargent

Planview Systems Delivery Manager at NASCO (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we use AgilePlace to visually see the tasks/initiatives that a team is responsible for. This is typically specifically to one team and is not work that crosses teams, at this time. This ensures that we are aware of all tasks/initiatives that are currently in flight along with what is in the backlog. Prior to AgilePlace some teams captured this information in Excel or Sharepoint. This left issues for true collaboration, easy visibility along with capturing supporting documentation.

Pros

Visual kanban board that is easy to customize as the team's needs change
Real time collaboration allowing teams working remotely to stay up to date on current status
Allows versatility for how a team needs to capture details on the work at hand by utilizing card icons, card types and custom data points
Card scoring is easy to setup and provides the team the ability to set values to better prioritize their backlog
Ability to add card automation to take out some of the repetitive manual actions

Cons

Ability to create & access in app reporting
Better administration of setting up & updating user access to boards

Return on Investment

The implementation of AgilePlace for team activity/initiative tracking has made our teams more productive and aware of business needs.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Organization is currently using AgilePlace to track team deliverables for each team. Ability to customize swim lanes has given different teams the flexibility to use AgilePlace to be used across different verticals like IT Operations, SAFe, Software Development, Strategy & Execution and much more.
AgilePlace has certainly made the Agile ways of working easier with better visibility of backlogs, approved work, work in progress, etc. On top of that, creating parent child relationships across different boards, makes it a great tool to work with orchestrate layers of work.

Pros

Card Scoring mechanism based on Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
Parent child relationships across different boards
Ability to connect to tools like JIRA and Planview Portfolios

Cons

All and all there is little to no scope for improvement because Planview's Product Owner of the tool is doing all that's needed to keep the tool up to date with continuous improvement.

Return on Investment

Effective and efficient use of resources
Huge impact on backlog tracking and agile ways of working

Alternatives Considered

Jira Align

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview AgilePlace because it is a very intuitive tool to use, the boards are very customizable and we are able to utilize Planview Hub to integrate other tools such as Jira, ServiceNow and Azure Dev Ops with Planview AgilePlace. The analytics that are available with Planview AgilePlace enable the teams to see their progress with Burndown Reports, Speed, Planned Percent Complete to name just a few.Another great part of using Planview's AgilePlace it the ability to link Portfolio Boards in Planview AgilePlace with Planview Portfolios which will enable your organization to connect your strategic plan and funding to your Agile delivery seamlessly.There are so many great features with Planview AgilePlace from the ability to complete your Agile Planning right on the board to the reports available, OKR's, WSJF etc. Give it a try.

Pros

Integrations with other tools
Customizable Boards
Ability to connect the strategy and funding using Planview Portfolio with Planview AgilePlace.
Visual Reports directly on the board
Easy and intuitive to use right out of the box

Cons

The Card Mirroring functionality seems to be hard for my organization to use.
Broaden the search functionality for active members of the board to be able to search for any field on their account.

Return on Investment

Being able to get up to speed quickly using the tool has enabled our teams to work more efficiently and effectively.

Alternatives Considered

Jira Align, Jira Software and Azure DevOps Services

Mateo Méndez

IT PMO Manager in Information Technology at Cuatrecasas (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use as a predefined tool for our lawyers and also for corporate teams.It is needed for our day by day as our management tool and also it is essential for the coordination of the different teams.This tool enables the visual management needed in many teams to easily and quickly see the pending, in progress and completed work.It also provides the necessary kpi for a correct follow-up of the tasks at all levels of the pyramid.

Pros

Visual Management
Keeps everything organized
Automation of administrative tasks

Cons

Automation could be improved
Reporting
Custom Icons
More functionalities in custom fields

Return on Investment

better process efficiency
greater team coordination
better decision making
better prioritization of work

Alternatives Considered

Trello

Karen Bruno

PMO Portfolio in Information Technology at Verisk (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use AgilePlace to gain visibility to dependencies across our development teams. Additionally, we are using AP for strategic planning, PI planning, and program management. We love the integration with Planview Roadmaps!! We are looking to tap into the analytics and reporting capabilities within AP as we integrate to Jira using Planview Hub.

Pros

Visual interface of Kanban board
Email notifications
Tracks history

Cons

Export of Reporting and analytics or dashboard capabilities for executives
Integration to Planview PPMPro for reporting and analytics

Return on Investment

We haven't figured this out yet, however, positive impact on improved delivery when initiative crosses multiple dev teams

Alternatives Considered

Planview PPM Pro and Planview TaskTop Hub

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Planview AgilePlace

What is Planview AgilePlace?

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Task Management

Gantt Charts

Resource Management

Areas for Improvement

Timesheet Tracking

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Mobile Access

Most Frequent Users

Finance and Insurance

Manufacturing

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

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