Workfront goes both ways: Agile, Waterfall, or a combination of the two
February 02, 2017

Workfront goes both ways: Agile, Waterfall, or a combination of the two

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Workfront

We use Workfront in our marketing team, which has about a dozen members, spread across three countries. Each of us can create and manage projects, and we build departmental teams within marketing for each project. We sometimes include people from other departments in our Workfront projects.
  • It's pretty quick to implement across a department. We rolled it out quite smoothly.
  • We're just beginning to use Agile for our website development projects. I can create a project and show it to non-Agile team members in a standard view, but I can also view the same project as an Agile burndown chart. Very nice.
  • I feel that their Agile capabilities are a work in progress. You can definitely use it in an Agile environment, but some features aren't very intuitive, and could use more refinement.
  • The online help could use work. Searching help often leads to frustration.
  • Using WorkFront in an Agile environment, we reduced the amount of time our team spent building a new website significantly. We saw at least a 30% improvement. It did not take us long at all to change from waterfall to Agile project management within Workfront.
It's excellent for a team that has dozens of projects going, with various team members involved on individual projects. It's easy to look at your own work for the week, with tasks from any number of different projects.

If you have a team that is purely Agile, there may be other tools that are a better option. I do feel that they're making progress with their Agile features, though.

Adobe Workfront Feature Ratings

Task Management
9
Resource Management
8
Gantt Charts
Not Rated
Scheduling
9
Workflow Automation
9
Team Collaboration
8
Support for Agile Methodology
7
Support for Waterfall Methodology
10
Document Management
8
Email integration
8
Mobile Access
Not Rated
Timesheet Tracking
7
Change request and Case Management
Not Rated
Budget and Expense Management
Not Rated
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
Not Rated