Workfront from a consulting view
July 19, 2019

Workfront from a consulting view

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

Overall Satisfaction with Workfront

In my prior consulting job, we used Workfront internally and externally. Externally it was useful loading up a project plan and the dashboard functionality was helpful for conducting status report meetings. The problems we had with it was that it was difficult to hide other clients' dashboards which is a huge security risk. Also adding tasks and the indentation was not very user-friendly.
  • Loading up a project plan.
  • Custom dashboard.
  • Assigning tasks to users.
  • Changing due dates in bulk was tedious on a project plan.
  • Folder structuring or accessing a document easily.
  • Creating custom forms was not very intuitive.
  • Status report creation saved a lot of time.
  • Having a lot of things in one place.
  • The huge learning curve that comes with being new to the tool was a negative.
Workfront is more of a collaboration tool. It gives a broader array of customization options.
Workfront works well if everyone is committed to it and willing to go through the learning curve. It works well for smaller projects and a project which has set due dates for each task. It is well-suited to for having a set of guidelines to clearly differentiate between a task or an action item. I really liked the dashboards that we created using Workfront but it definitely took a lot of learning to figure out how to make those custom forms and set who can see them. Also for the consulting use case, keeping in mind that we have several clients, having different dashboards was also difficult.

Adobe Workfront Feature Ratings

Task Management
4
Resource Management
6
Gantt Charts
8
Scheduling
2
Team Collaboration
7
Support for Agile Methodology
6
Support for Waterfall Methodology
9
Document Management
6