Great Tool For Building And Sharing Flowcharts
May 10, 2023

Great Tool For Building And Sharing Flowcharts

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Lucidchart

The number of symbol libraries to pick from can be a bit overwhelming, but once you find the symbols relevant to you work flow it's really easy to use!
A quick and easy way to align business stakeholders and engineering on current business processes and the desired algorithm behavior.

I use Lucidchart to document and understand existing business processes with my business stakeholders. I also use it to give high-level outlines of the solutions we're doing to implement in a way that is digestible to both our business stakeholders and the engineering team that needs to implement it.

Two features beyond basic flowcharting every team should consider leveraging are:
  • Shared folders to make permission management and discovery of historical artifacts easy.
  • Commenting to allow for easy coloration and feedback.

Pros

  • Making Flow Chart Easy
  • Sharing Flowcharts With Teammates
  • Collaborating on Flow Charts with multiple people

Cons

  • Sharing is very convoluted and confusing when I'm trying to share a single document. It would be beneficial if there was a request access feature similar to google docs if you don't have access to a specific chart but have the link
  • Handling of nested flowcharts to abstract complex but drill down when needed. Simulink has a decent strategy for this and would like to see something similar in Lucidchart
  • Link related charts together so I can easily tie different versions of a process together over time
  • It's far faster and easier to collaborate than comparable tools like Visio
The Slack integration is nice because I know when people comment on my charts, but the Google Docs integration could improve as I constantly need to hit the sync button to update charts and find it easier to just screen grab the image and link to the Lucidchart

Do you think Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite's feature set?

Yes

Did Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite again?

Yes

I think the products are very similar when it comes to actually making flowcharts, but Lucidchart is significantly better when it comes to collaboration and sharing
It is well suited for creating quick high-level flow charts for any business process or software algorithm.

It is not well suited for creating detailed flow charts with many layers of complexity and interconnectivity as there is not great way to link sub-systems to parent systems or connect related systems together.

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