Most popular features of all Project Management & Planning apps
25 reviewers had the following to say about ProjectManager.com's features:
Pros
- Portfolio View - Management of Multiple Projects - Team Management Capabilities - Simple Scheduling Tools - Simple Reporting Process - Simple Task Management Process
Cons
- Very Underdeveloped Mobile Platform (Not very easy to follow tasks. Not easy to communicate tasks on the fly and no overall view of how projects are performing) - No Method for Managing Reports By Division (or at least none that I have learned) - No Method for Customizing Reports - Specifically those by task (i.e.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Rob,
We're glad you are enjoying our product! We continue to put more resources into developing our mobile platform and thank you for the feedback!
Detailed project planning and studio capacity management
Pros
You can set the working days of a person and the number of hours each person works, which helps accurately plan capacity.
Cons
There are a couple of features I'd like to see incorporated, such as a different colour in the workload view for potential projects, and on the calendar RSS feed the project name needs to be included as well as the task name, otherwise all your tasks can come across with the same name (i.e. design, design, design,).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Julia,
We always appreciate it when users suggest feature adjustments. We're glad you enjoy our product for managing timelines and studio schedules!
It does allow for more detailed project management. you can't expect it to do all of what MS Project does - it is not at that level.
Pros
I like the ability to create a fairly detailed project plan including budget and dates that are nicely mapped out in a Gantt chart.
Cons
This product isn't great to manage really long projects or challenging projects with lots of iterations.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Jessica, thanks for the kind words and the thorough review!
I'm glad you like the planning features so much. We work hard to offer the best project management software for people like yourself who manage complex projects but want a simple and intuitive way to execute the work.
I'll pass your feedback about the reporting to our product team, I know they are always interested in how we can improve the usability of the software.
Thanks!
Michael, Customer Support
Overall is a good product that need improvements, I wouldn't personally choose to use it
Pros
The tool sends daily notifications Can add time to task from different places Track different projects
Cons
Sometimes it does not update the time added to a task Some tasks get randomly deleted Tabs are consufing
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The biggest benefit I have experienced is having everything listed in an organized manner at my fingertips.
Pros
Template options are helpful in creating your own project organization scheme. Prioritization of tasks is incorporated, and I have found the app useful for business, personal, and education tracking, as it is user friendly, easily used on the go, and best of all, free.
Cons
The app, like many, can take some time to get used to using, to be sure folder weights are correct and tasks are placed in the correct place since there aren't trees showing the entire paths.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Essential tool for any project manager.
Pros
Risk/Issues/Changes tabs Linked timelines
Cons
Some of the reporting is very precise which means I need to document and 100% on the exact days tasks are achieved.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hello Angela,
Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate the gracious remarks.
We're so sorry to hear as well about the trouble with saving your data. We as a best practice recommend to use the save button often. We also have an Auto-Save feature that will save changes every 5 minutes in case you accidentally close your browser page or lose internet connection. Hopefully these will help!
Pros
PM.com is an easy tool to use, you don't need to much time to get into work.
Cons
If I have to share cons, on thing is perhaps no new features roadmap have been seeing or at least known.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Great tool, fit for purpose and easy to use
Pros
I can track time against actual effort and also get a report at the end of the project to display actual effort.
Cons
Not easy to visualise the overall projects that employees are working on
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Being able to create reports with % complete.
Pros
(I would like to be able to "lock" the planned start-finish dates though, so team members can't adjust their own task planned dates)
Cons
The notification system not giving me an option to be notified whenever ANYTHING changes - I want to know right away when a task is completed by team members if I'm not assigned to the task.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Sharree,
We appreciate your feedback and will look to implement some of the features you mentioned you would have liked!
Pros
Easy to track resources and good for planning.
Cons
When working on a lot of projects it can be cumbersome to search for them in different places, but this is the only slight drawback that it has.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Please, work in new APIs
Pros
It's a good SaaS to manage projects and resources.
Cons
On the other hand, it doesn't have an API to obtain hours for each project in a simple way.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Similarity to other scheduling software.
Cons
If they complete their work on in part early on day one, say 8 hours of it, you can update the percent complete to 80% but the distribution of workload for the remainder of the schedule doesn't reduce the hours left in the task.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's an easy way to share information and track tasks.
Cons
There is no way to quickly see all projects assigned to me, it would be nice if there was a feature that allowed you to favorite projects for quick access or set a dashboard view that showed results on saved search parameters.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
We set up templates for different kind of projects, it easy to add or delete tasks accordingly, project manager has help me be more aware of the project status to keep more or less on track and to write notes around tasks, manage expenses and invoicing, functions that are so valuable when writing reports and closing.
Pros
Ring menu and icons are easy to identify, customising columns practical overall not overly complex.
Cons
I haven't found anything i dislike, though i'm not using every function available.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
A great tool for lean or just enough planning and reporting of small to medium to large projects.
Pros
Simple and easy to use
Cons
Reporting module is not robust.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hello Subhan,
Glad to hear you¿re finding the software easy to use! We¿ll be adding new features to the reporting module in the new year.
Pros
- Gantt charts are a great way of tracking time - integrations with the Microsoft Office suite - great UI with almost no learning curve
Cons
- not as suitable for large scale projects spanning multiple divisions - quite expensive to upgrade to premium
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I like being able to track the mild stones and report on those statuses. Works well in a team environment for everyone to track their pieces.
Cons
One thing that I find slightly cumbersome with Project Manager is having so many tabs and levels.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Thanks for the kind words, Angie!
I will send your feedback about the tab UX to our product team -- they really like getting feedback on these things from our long time customers!
Have a great week!
Michael, Customer Support
Automated organization and task delegation for complex projects with many individual tasks.
Pros
Automatic Assignment of tasks and alerts and due dates helps immensely in keeping complex tasks organized and on-schedule.
Cons
Written helps are not very helpful - they describe the features but not how to use them. Tutorials that I have seen are mostly about general PM concepts- not how the software specifically helps. Tutorials that show how to use each specific part of PM.com would be great.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Brent,
Glad you've enjoyed the product so far! Thank you for the suggestion on more detailed tutorials.
We use this Project Management software a lot for project planning, scheduling, resource allocation and change management.
It has all the features we need and makes sharing information and tracking project progress super easy.
Easy to use, intuitive, nice interface
Pros
It has a lot of options and is a nice alternative to MS project. I would recommend this software for small businesses or small teams within larger organizations.
Cons
Having to set weekends as working days prior to building a Gantt chart and no way to go back and do it later.
Rating breakdown
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
A single product for planning our projects which are viewable to our teams. Resource planning allow us to integrate our planning across teams to give us end to end plans whereas plans were only done for the individual teams.
Pros
It is easy to use set up, use and share plans making working with the teams more cohesive.
Cons
There is not a single overview of the projects and task breakdown. The plans don't take into consideration any holidays or leave so it is easy allocate tasks when people are not available.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Thanks Karen! We appreciate your feedback on the overview of projects.
Pros
It is easy for people to use and we can get the reports we need from it.
Cons
There are a few quirks with removing people from projects so they can't enter more time and then they can't see the time they entered previously.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The ability to track projects is useful in itself
Cons
With many projects and tasks it can be a nuisance to input dozens of time increments into the Timesheet, I would like to see a calendar that allows the user to visually capture time similar to Google Calendar.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Automates the progress of the projects, due dates, financial reports and many more
