Cost effective PM tool
December 15, 2022

Cost effective PM tool

Ramprasad Rangachary, PMP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ProjectLibre

My team and I use ProjectLibre for the following -

1) Access project plan created using MS Projects - MS Projects license is expensive and we cannot have all users assigned one. This is where ProjectLibre comes in

2) User interface is simple and friendly. It hardly takes anytime for anyone to get go with it

3) Printing options are friendly too - you are able to adjust paper sizes, timescales, etc.
  • Creating Project plans are painless
  • There are loads of printing customizations one can do
  • Update frequencies are good
  • Customer service is not there - I understand that the product is open source but some kind of forum with FAQs, etc. can come in handy
  • App crashes at time for no reason. There have been instances where you try to create a new task and all the diagrams and other items get messed up
  • Cost of acquisition was nil and setting up was easy. With this application, we could have more members of the team get access to view project plans as is than converting them to PDFs
1) Ability to access project plans created using MS Projects - MS Projects license is expensive and we cannot have all users assigned one. This is where ProjectLibre comes in. We can get the team to access project plans rather than sharing them as PDFs

2) User interface is simple and friendly. It hardly takes anytime for anyone to get go with it

3) Printing options are friendly too - you are able to adjust paper sizes, timescales, etc.

Do you think ProjectLibre delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ProjectLibre's feature set?

Yes

Did ProjectLibre live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of ProjectLibre go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ProjectLibre again?

Yes

When you decide to use this, we need to keep in mind that this is an open source platform. While you can put in a request feature, there is no guarantee you will get it.

If you rely on Customer service, this is something that is almost non-existent (considering it is open source, it is not fair to expect one)

ProjectLibre Feature Ratings

Task Management
6
Resource Management
6
Gantt Charts
6
Scheduling
6
Workflow Automation
7
Team Collaboration
7
Support for Agile Methodology
7
Support for Waterfall Methodology
7
Document Management
5
Budget and Expense Management
6
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
5