Item: Planview ProjectPlace
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Projectplace

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have recently transitioned to Projectplace as our project management platform in the marketing department of our organization. The software is intended to serve as a fully featured project management tool. I wasn't involved in the selection process, so I am unsure of all the various business problems the software solves for us. As far as I know only English is being used, and the location is the U.S.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Projectplace makes it easy to have a large picture timeline of a project using the plan tab. This can be helpful when getting one's bearings.
As someone who is contributing to various projects, the card view is helpful, because it allows me to know what I need to work on next.
It's easy to upload documents and tag the appropriate people.

Cons

The implementation of PlanView is clunky from what I can tell. My manager can create a project and it won't sync and add me to the Projectplace project for an hour or more.
Small scale projects don't seem to be Projectplace's best use case. For a big, complex project it has lots of helpful tools, but on smaller projects those same tools can become cumbersome. For example, our default template has 11 or so boards, but for a small project I'd only need half that - I have to go through and customize the project to remove info, which is cumbersome and takes additional time.
As far as I know, I can't delete boards, which is a pain because if one is added in error, or I don't need one, I just have to hide the thing.

Return on Investment

I don't have the level of involvement necessary to assess the return on investment yet.
We've only recently fully-implemented Projectplace, so I don't believe it can be clearly said what the impacts on business objectives have been yet.

Alternatives Considered

Asana

I did not select Projectplace, so I can't speak to that. In my experience with both, they both have their pros and cons. I think from a big picture point of view, Projectplace is more helpful for tracking time, and managing creation of projects, etc. which is probably a big reason they chose it.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Projectplace is good for large, detailed projects, with lots of collaborators because of the ability to break down the big picture goals into smaller action items using the boards. Those boards can easily be assigned to the appropriate people who can then begin executing on their required tasks.

The tool is less useful in the configuration I've been given access to for small-scale projects.

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