Great for large teams with lots of ongoing projects
September 07, 2017
Great for large teams with lots of ongoing projects
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Workfront
- Centralize projects in one solution
- Manage digital work processes
Workfront makes it easy to have all of the tasks, large and small, associated with a project in one place. Timelines filter down to subsequent tasks if one is completed late or ahead of schedule, so you always know if you're on track to meet a completion goal. It's easy to assign different tasks to different people within a single project, which saves a lot of email/phone calls and keeps things from being forgotten.
Pros
- Allows for collaboration - multiple users can work on tasks for a project, you can tag people in updates whether they've worked on a project or not, etc.
- Easy tracking of timeline - and easy to adjust timeline if something changes.
- Document storage - easy to upload, view, download documents associated with a project.
Cons
- Lack of naming conventions - you have to determine this yourself, to keep projects and documents organized
- Some weird issues - you can make comments on documents but these aren't part of the "updates" section and tend to get lost. This is especially annoying when it comes to reviewing documents in the system.
- Managing workflows - eliminating email, ensuring tasks aren't overlooked
- Leveraging previous work - can look at completed projects for templates - either for work products themselves, or for workflow/timelines
Workfront is more expensive, but more robust. Lacks a group writing/editing feature that Podio and Basecamp have. Workfront seems to work better when you have a whole bunch of different people working on a whole bunch of different projects all the time, whereas Podio and Basecamp work great for a small to medium size team working together on one or two big projects at a time (like a website overhaul or developing a campaign, etc).
Yes, there are far fewer emails going back and forth and assigned tasks don't fall through the cracks.
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