Teamwork Projects great for tasks and working together.
November 16, 2017
Teamwork Projects great for tasks and working together.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Teamwork Projects
We have used Teamwork Projects to help us manage the design, fabrication, and shipping of large pieces of industrial equipment with a variety of components. It has helped us keep track of where each piece is in the process, what needs to be done and who needs to do it. We mostly used it in that department but we did also use it for smaller internal projects including hiring and onboarding team members. The biggest problems Teamwork Projects helped us with is really just keeping track of where in our process the individual parts of larger pieces that make up a whole were.
- We set up a project with each part of the equipment and under that part set the steps of the process to move from design to installed on site. This includes multiple checks, drawings, fabrication, shipping, arrival on site and other steps.
- Tasks also worked well you can assign tasks to yourself or other team members with deadlines, details etc... and then follow up on them seeing how the task is progressing and how each team member and the project overall is moving forward and meeting deadlines.
- Teamwork Projects has a Gantt Chart feature build in that is easy to use and is helpful for time parts of the project as it progresses. Our equipment has multiple pieces to fabricate some take months to build and some take hours. The Gantt chart helped us to plan ahead and make sure the long lead items where started early enough to deliver with the smaller ones.
- We had an issue with data entry and repeating the same task multiple times. We had a process to go through and would have liked to repeat the process with assigned people and even deadlines frequently for each piece.
- For a big project Teamwork Project worked well but it may add too much work to the project. Just entering and updating tasks at time felt like it was taking up a big chunk of the day. This could be due to the way we use it.
- I had issues with the down carrot to the left of a task. It provided a pulldown menu and I constantly expected it to reveal the subtasks. Some of this is just my brain and not Teamwork Projects but it was a constant frustration for me.
- There's a lot to Teamwork Projects I haven't used yet but again it helped us manage a big job and make sure everything happened. That's huge and helps us deliver our equipment to our customers on time.
- We are able to watch what our team is doing and how well they are working and completing tasks. That helps us see who needs more training or assistance and who doesn't.
- The gantt feature helps us plan ahead for which pieces need to start earlier or later based on time to fabricate, resources, etc...
We started with Basecamp and switched to Teamwork Projects because of it's greater flexibility with tasks especially. After using both I do prefer Teamwork Projects because of the many features. However, we aren't completely happy with it and are looking into other software because it's not quite right for what we do.