ProjectPlace? Project Right!
October 05, 2018
ProjectPlace? Project Right!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Planview Projectplace
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.