Great tool to provide visibility to team workloads
August 11, 2021

Great tool to provide visibility to team workloads

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Planview LeanKit

Planview LeanKit is used is a couple of different business areas. The Performance Improvement team, which supports multiple applications, utilizes it to manage our backlog of work that needs to be one. This is used in team meetings to talk about work in process, recently finished and in the pipeline waiting to be started. Planview LeanKit makes our weekly team meetings more effective as we talk through each card on the board. We are able to flag things that are waiting outside input, assign deadline dates so they are visible and allow for team collaboration outside of meetings to ensure the work is getting done. It's great to be able to reference back on work we did in case there are questions or follow-up. Another area of the business uses it lightly to manage the work for their customer, identifying work in process, recently finished or in the pipeline. They are still working to find all of the benefits of the tool but it is starting to drive meeting progress. We are excited to dabble in the new functionality of Instant Coffee and OKRs.
  • Ability to color code cards based on type, giving better visibility to the variety of tasks a team handles
  • Ability to set deadline dates and have those dates easily visible
  • Flexibility in design the kanban board. It is easy to add a lane or make a change on the fly. Work doesn't have to stop and a long process created to make simple layout changes.
  • Movement of cards is easy as well as the ability to connect cards to show dependencies.
  • Ability to add more than 1 visual cue to the card. We use custom icons and sometimes more than 1 is appropriate but you have to choose which is most important since only 1 can be applied.
  • Better visibility to board access from the user administration screens. Currently have to run 1-2 reports to see this information. Would like to be able to click on a user within Configure Users and see what boards they have access to quickly.
  • Our team meetings are more direct and quick to get through thanks to the better visibility of the workload
  • Easily being able to move cards between team lanes gives instant visibility to where the responsibility for the next step is needed.

Do you think Planview AgilePlace delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Planview AgilePlace's feature set?

Yes

Did Planview AgilePlace live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Planview AgilePlace go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Planview AgilePlace again?

Yes

  • Team meetings - driving work progress by making the workload visible.
  • Roll-up of team boards to portfolio boards to give Sr Leaders visibility to what is going on without getting into the weeds.