Float vs Visual Planning Comparison

I like the drag and drop ease of use and the visual status screens that can be configured by team or specific members to get a high level overview of the week for planning

I don't like the lack of trace ability within the tool. I have found from using the tool that it is very to simply push tasks back sprint to sprint without ever really being able to see how often this is happening. It's hard to hold team members accountable to their commitments without a history of on time success for different tasks.

What I like the most is its intuitive and easy-to-use interface. I love how visual it is, with bright, light colors that make planning very visual and easy to understand. Also, I love the real-time view of team members' availability, including holidays and time off. This helps me assign tasks effectively and ensures that I don't overburden any team member.

While this platform offers a lot of useful features, there are a few areas where I feel like it could use some improvement. One of them is the lack of a built-in time tracking feature. While I can assign tasks and see my team's availability, I can't track the time spent on each task within the platform. This requires you to use an additional tool to track and record the time spent on each task.

Easy to find my personal planning and of coworkers

Ability to enter planning items for myself

easy to use, you can easily configure projects and tasks

upload from excel could be added to facilitate planning

Hi Francesca, Thanks so much for your review! There is a CVS import option for your people/projects, including updating your existing people and projects directly via the template. This option is available in the top right corner of your people and projects tab in Float. If you have any other questions, please email support@float.com and we'd be happy to help!

What sets this project management software apart is its exceptional user interface. Navigating through tasks, timelines, and reports feels intuitive and user-friendly. The visual representation of project timelines and progress is a standout feature, making it easy to grasp project status at a glance. This visual clarity has significantly enhanced our project planning and decision-making processes. With this software, complexity is simplified, and managing even intricate projects becomes a breez

In my experience with Float, the aspect that has the most potential for growth is the mobile app. While functional, it could benefit from more robust features and smoother navigation. Real-time updates and more comprehensive task management capabilities on the mobile platform would greatly enhance the product's utility for users on the go. Despite this, Float's desktop version remains a reliable tool for managing schedules and projects effectively.

It's really good to have a nice and functional graphical overview of planning which makes your organization easier.

Sometimes I can't see the planning - the rows are empty.

We love the easy drag and drop interface, the ease of use of the whole system, the API allowing us to create/sync projects and tasks from our project management system, and the ability for our team to sync their Float schedule to their iOS or Exchange calendars via the iCal feed.

We think there are some minor things that would make the software even easier to use missing from it: - ability to drag and drop to copy a schedule from one person/resource to another (not just reallocate) - ability to see Notes on a project by hovering over the quick note icon on the schedule - ability to see confirmed appointments vs tentative (clients are using colours to do this at the moment)

Float is very powerful, easy to use at a glance, and not bloated with too many features.

The functionality around planning for unconfirmed projects that are in the pipeline could be improved to allow for better scenario planning. We use various workarounds for this at the moment.

Simple, visual tool to schedule times across team members. Helpful to plan projects

I wish it integrated with more systems for seamless scheduling/planning.

Thanks for the review! Please feel welcome to send us your integration requests to support@float.com. This year we've introduced dedicated integrations with Google Calendar, Outlook and Teamwork. You can also integrate with 1,000+ apps via Zapier. We'd love to hear your suggestions for 2020! Cheers, Siobhan

Good Tool for planning for resources and give a future planning picture at one place for all team members

UI Interface Need to be changed for better

The ability to view project enrolments of colleagues. It also help for project resource planning.

There could be improvement on the daily planning/breakdown of your time.

Float gives me a great overview of what's on today's schedule. The tool is customizable and can fit my agency's needs.

The notifications are somewhat inconsistent and I believe that they can be optimized even more. Perhaps a Slack integration would be cool?

Planning. It helps me plan and know my work better

No notifications. When someone changes plan, need notifs

Overall, the visual resource planning with Float is superb. It's very easy for our teams to track progress across projects. Project managers have high transparency and visibility into 'resource' (aka analyst/associate) staffing, and this has made delivering projects on time much easier than before. Assigning resources between team members is also very easy.

There was a slight learning curve for some of our team members, but that's really the only drawback we experienced.

The calendar-style view is intuitive and makes planning future weeks/months quick and easy. It's great for high-level planning.

I wish there was better functionality/visibility when setting upcoming milestones and deadlines.

Thank you for your review, Mark!

Ease of use Comprehensive feature for tracking of projects & resources

Limited reporting & analytic No baseline to compare what has been changed from the original plan

Visualizations of the workload overtime make it really easy for projecting costs with part time labor.

Wish there was a function to do weekly hour planning instead of only daily.

Easy to use and easy to teach to new employees.

A to-do list feature for each project would be useful for planning future work.

Good visual layout and intuitive design.

Lacking a lot of functionality. Copying tasks and not having more administrative control over users is difficult and counter productive.

The interface is clear and pleasant. I like the ability to track the tasks that are assigned to me and at the same time have an overview of all the projects assigned to each resource. I find the log function very useful to record daily the actual tasks and duration.

It would be useful to have the ability to manage the projects according to the teams and track projects status.

Overall planning for teams, easy day-by-day task management, task categories, project / customer management, api to retrieve planning on other software (such as notes calendar)

Still quite difficult to manage 1/2 day task, no way to plan meeting easily

Task planning make managing active projects much easier

It is not very intuitive for the management of absences from work.

Desired features (resource planning / time tracking per project)

Some features are missing (duplicating phases / templates are not great so had to create mine)

Resource Planning across projects with multiple team members

Can't allocate a set amount of hours across a project

I can see what other's work schedule looks like

It can be a bit bulky but otherwise not much to dislike about it.