Item: Teamwork.com
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Teamwork projects to manage:

Design of new products (teams of 5-10 engineers).
Manufacture of products (team of 40 production/assembly staff).

Teamwork allows us to manage all our teams in one place.

Pros and Cons

Great for managing tasks over multiple projects.
Prioritizing tasks from different projects relative to each other.

Not great for communication: We integrate with MS Teams and it is working well.
Can be slow to load when there are lots of tasks are in a project (50+ tasks in a Gantt chart it starts to break).

Return on Investment

Hard to measure, we are now spending more time working and less time planning.
10 person Mechanical Engineering team has 2 stand up planning meetings per week (1.5 hours total). We generally have 4-6 projects at any one time. Teamwork allows us to do all planning in these meetings. The rest of the week the Team checks their task board daily (15 minutes) to manage changing priorities, etc.

Alternatives Considered

Teamwork was already implemented when I started at the company.

Key Insights

Do you think Teamwork.com delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Teamwork.com's feature set?

Yes

Did Teamwork.com live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Teamwork.com go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Teamwork.com again?

Yes

Teamwork has a huge amount of functionality. Each company/team will need to figure out the best way for them to use it. Key questions are: Do you want to manage tasks on boards, list, or Gantt? Do you want to prioritize based on: due date, start date, priority, or board?n There are so many features you need to be very clear with your team about how you are using them. At the end of the day, everyone just needs to be working on the right task.

Teamwork is feature rich but you better standardize how your team uses it!

Overall Satisfaction with Teamwork Projects