Zoho Projects, though not instinctively-enticing, is efficient and feels very promising
December 01, 2018
Zoho Projects, though not instinctively-enticing, is efficient and feels very promising
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Zoho Projects
Our organization has recently adopted Zoho Projects for our usability and user research division. It is being used to view, track, and manage individual tasks as well as the overall status of projects, each of which typically involve 5-15 team members. Often times each of our roles and responsibilities are essential to the project as a whole but do not always cross paths in the way of day-to-day tasks. Zoho Projects is aiming to provide us all with a central location to see project statuses without the need to reach out via email, phone, Slack, Skype, or any other means of communication.
- Multiple views are available which allow me to choose which is easiest for me to review my projects and tasks.
- The ability to see others' tasks and responsibilities helps me to see where a project is in its timeline and estimate or know exactly when my tasks will be available and need to be completed.
- The dashboard view offers customizable widgets so I can truly make my dashboard work for me by only displaying the pieces that are relevant to my work and not be bombarded with illustrated graphs of data that have no relevance to my responsibilities.
- Onboard training seemed a bit lackluster as far as my feeling excited and/or prepared to dive right into using Zoho. (In fairness, as our organization is early in the adoption phase, few projects have been implemented into Zoho and so there is not a lot to explore just yet).
- No initial drive or motivation to get started. Generally I am excited to use and explore new software or SAAS but, for reasons I have not yet identified, I did did not feel this with Zoho. Instead I quickly adopted a procrastination mindset of "I'll take a look at this later."
- As a user (not purchaser) of Zoho, I cannot assess ROI financially but instead as a time-saver for myself. Having a central location to see the status of all my active projects is very convenient.
- Being able to see all my active and upcoming tasks is critical to ensure I do not miss something I had written on a post-it note or saw in an email but got lost or overlooked in the shuffle and business of other projects.