Item: Planview ProjectPlace
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Planview Projectplace

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ProjectPlace in two main ways. First, we manage our software development process with internal users. Our PM puts the big picture stories in ProjectPlace and then moves them through until their done. Users can see and comment, label, and move cards around to help us prioritize work for the development team. Secondly, we use it to manage a variety of data collection processes. Cards are assigned to people from various departments over a monthly process as each person completes their work.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Labels, Dependencies, Checklists are really awesome aspects of each card that let you customize the work appropriately for the task at hand. The way the unused features are hidden allows each card to really fit the work and not become overly complicated.
Using swim lanes to lay out the cards allows us to use one board where other tools would make us use multiple ones. We can lay them out by label, or assignment, depending on the project or task at hand.

Cons

The labeling could use some work. I'd like to be able to change the order, add more colors or styles to the labels.
The reporting could use some work. I'd like to be able to download the raw data over time, so I can get a better sense of how things are moving. The charts are good but hard to dive into without being able to see the backing data.

Return on Investment

We have not done any analysis on this. Occasionally our finance people talk about the expense of ProjectPlace, but I just point out that it's better than Trello and less expensive for us than the Business version of that tool.

Alternatives Considered

Asana, Trello and JIRA Service Desk

To me, ProjectPlace is the winner above and beyond all of these. Similar or less expensive, and far more practical functionality. Rather than try to be all things to all people, it focuses on basic functions that apply to most businesses. Beyond Asana, JIRA, and Trello (which have used and discarded, for the most part) we have received rising pressure to use the "free" Planner tool that comes with Microsoft Office 365, but to me, it falls so far short as to be laughable.

Likelihood to Recommend

Anytime you're dealing with stakeholders (both technical and non-technical), I love to put a kanban board in front of them and let them see the work. ProjectPlace does a great job of exposing all work to the user and allowing them to keep track of all their various tasks, even across projects.

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Anna Öhrlund
(Vendor Representative) commented 6 years ago
Hi! Thank you so much for your extensive review and positive feedback, we appreciate it! We've heard from many users that they appreciate the labels and the ability to categorize cards using the colors, and just a couple of weeks ago we doubled the amount of colors available for the card labels. We will continue to make updates to the boards and cards going forward to make them even more flexible and easier to work with. We are also planning to spend some time on improving dashboards and reporting in 2019 and plan to release a completely new oData set that can be used for creating your own reports in for example PowerBI or Excel. To remove internal users that are connected to your account, as Account Admin you have two options. 1) To remove the user from the account or 2) To delete the user account. You can learn how in our Customer Success Center https://success.planview.com/Projectplace/Account_administration/Manage_users_in_the_account If you need any help don't hesitate to contact our Customer Care team https://success.planview.com/Projectplace/Projectplace_Support Again, thanks for taking time to review us and for your sincere feedback! Kind regards Anna Öhrlund Customer Marketing Manager for Projectplace

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