If You Are Willing To Pay For A Robust Tool With Great Reporting & Time Tracking Features - Teamwork May Be Worth The Investment
November 14, 2017
If You Are Willing To Pay For A Robust Tool With Great Reporting & Time Tracking Features - Teamwork May Be Worth The Investment
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Teamwork Projects
I used Teamwork Projects extensively at my previous company. I also consulted with other companies to implement the software as a certified Teamwork Expert. In Teamwork, we managed every single thing that needed to be done.
We used to say "if it's not in Teamwork, it didn't happen."
Teamwork was useful for planning, communicating and collaborating, time tracking, and reporting.
A project manager would put everything that needed to be done in Teamwork and assign it out. This could include time estimates, dates, etc. Then every employee can pull up Teamwork and see exactly what they need to do.
As we are working on tasks we are constantly updating our tasks in Teamwork by posting comments, uploading files, and tracking time. This way management instantly knows the status of every task and project being done in the company.
Because we tracked our time in Teamwork, we could look over time and see how effective we were being. Time is typically your biggest cost. I found it extremely useful to figure out what we should be charging clients (even if you aren't charging by the hour, you still need to know).
- The Everything Tab - In The Everything Tab, employees can click on "All Tasks" and instantly see a list of what needs to be done. They can sort these by due date, priority, and other custom sorting options. SUPER EASY to help manage employee's time.
- Project organization and reports - If you are organizing projects in Teamwork correctly, they have quite a few nice reports such as the Gantt Chart, Time Report, Workload Report, Project Overview, and Project Chart. This makes it easy when you are over multiple teams and projects to instantly know the status on every single task or project in the company. This is both from a high level (looking over many projects at once) and even down to an individual task level.
- Time Tracking - Teamwork's time tracking is really good. It is really easy to track time and because you can track time according to tasks, it really helps you look at how you are spending your time. I think this is really underrated. You can log your time throughout the day by tasks or by project. They also have a timer app if that's an easier method for you.
- Load Time - I'm sure they are working on this but I found Teamwork Projects does tend to load a little slowly. If you use some shortcuts and tricks to navigate quickly it may not be noticeable but I've tested out other software and some other platforms seem to load considerably faster.
- Board View - I'm not a fan of the card system in general. I know a lot of people like it so take this for a grain of salt but the integration between board view and task view is not super smooth. Projects don't automatically have columns (although you can probably set defaults) and if you don't manually assign a column to each task, they are put in the backlog, which basically makes it so you have tons of tasks in there. It isn't terrible but software like Goodday.Work had a much smoother system for having both board views and list views.
- Expensive - It was a little on the high side before they upped their prices, but now with them charging $69/month for just the low level plan (from $49/month), it's a quite a bit higher than other options out there. This is even more drastic when you consider what other companies give with their free plans. I believe Asana only charges you when you are over 15 users, Goodday.Work is still free, and Trello is basically free if you don't mind storing files somewhere else and not using integrations.
- It helped us manage teams remotely. It was so effective that we started people working at home because we could be just as effective collaborating separately.
- I found it really easy to manage projects and team members using Teamwork. I would just plan some stuff out and make tasks and assign them. Then people would automatically start working on them! If someone finished everything or another person had to much that needed to be done, it was really easy to reassign work. That kind of transparency and ease was really useful. Also, Stress free!
- goodday and Trello
I would say that Teamwork blows Trello out of the water, but Goodday may be better, especially when you consider the current price difference.
I really don't like Trello. The part of Teamwork I don't like the most is Board View and Trello is basically just board view! Board view is kind of useless for having tasks that need to be done in order. The way I think is in lists. I want to log in and see the lists of everything I need to get done, with dates. In Trello I have to read through a bunch of cards on a bunch of different boards. To me it just seems difficult to organize. I also like marking something as complete way better than just moving a task to a "done" column or archiving a card.
Goodday was FAST. It may be because they don't have as many users, I don't know, but the speed was incredible! I didn't realize how slow Teamworks loading time until I used Goodday. Goodday's organization is also very impressive. It can automatically make boards by priority, custom categories, and such. I think that is much better than having to go in and create a board view from scratch. Plus, last time I checked, Goodday is free!
I really don't like Trello. The part of Teamwork I don't like the most is Board View and Trello is basically just board view! Board view is kind of useless for having tasks that need to be done in order. The way I think is in lists. I want to log in and see the lists of everything I need to get done, with dates. In Trello I have to read through a bunch of cards on a bunch of different boards. To me it just seems difficult to organize. I also like marking something as complete way better than just moving a task to a "done" column or archiving a card.
Goodday was FAST. It may be because they don't have as many users, I don't know, but the speed was incredible! I didn't realize how slow Teamworks loading time until I used Goodday. Goodday's organization is also very impressive. It can automatically make boards by priority, custom categories, and such. I think that is much better than having to go in and create a board view from scratch. Plus, last time I checked, Goodday is free!