Item: Hive
Rating: 10
Author: María José Nieto Hidalgo

Overall Satisfaction with Hive

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to improve teamwork by creating the oportunity to interact with others in a space that is not as strict as the internal platform, we get a way to visualize the status of the job being done. As it has the proof option it's faster to interact and edit. When we have an organizing-next-steps kind of meeting its easy to keep notes in a collaborative way and to fix the steps to take in a list.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Simplicity, it offers a clean environment without risking the outcome. An example of this are the timesheets that allow a fast way to keep track of progress
Interaction, the different options make it faster and easier to interact and collaborate in the development of a product. An example of this would be Hive Notes for meetings
The different visualisations it offers allow to explore the best ways to affront your projects. I really like the Gantt mappings view to understand who can be contacted at each point

Cons

The first steps were confusing, it gets some time to adapt to some of the tools.
The labels of status could be easier to change, when you are used to it is OK but newcomers tend to mess them up

Return on Investment

I've gotten to know my colleagues better, knowing their roles makes it faster to contact them to complete tasks and that speed makes us optimize and earn better results
The jobs speed made us focus on optimization and customization for the client, and that in a better treatment by the client and better revenue
We can understand which tasks takes more time and to stimate better what we can ask for

Alternatives Considered

Trello and Microsoft 365

It's an all in one, amazing and simple.
I've been looking for something like this all along.

Key Insights

Do you think Hive delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Hive's feature set?

Yes

Did Hive live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Hive go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Hive again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Webex Calling, Camtasia

Likelihood to Recommend

Its great to share those activities we do as a group as developing, organizing, meetings, the roles of each ones. Activities that previously we were doing using 3 or more applications (planner, todo, Trello, teams groups, outlook calendars...) this simplified everything and made it all faster

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Great management asset