Workfront enables teams to work however they want, utilizing any methodology, including Agile, Waterfall, or a mix of the two. Die-hard Agile devotees can rely on Workfront to blend their chosen methodology with the convenience of an enterprise work management system.
Workfront’s Agile project management module combines the benefits of an Agile platform, while eliminating the communication barriers that often trip teams up. Workfront stands apart from competing solutions by supporting both Agile and Waterfall projects in a single product, leveraging native functionality, and at no additional cost. Most importantly, Workfront uniquely allows organizations to roll up Agile work into more traditional project plans, meeting the process needs of Agile development teams AND the data requirements of executives and business stakeholders doing milestone-based planning.
Resource management tools allow organizations to balance the workloads of individual employees or teams. Workfront’s Smart Assignments feature automatically suggests which employees would be best suited for specific tasks. Managers can quickly review what each employee has on his or her schedule before assigning any new projects.
See what each of your employees has on his or her plate before assigning new tasks. Enter the skills and the available time required to complete a certain task, and Workfront will quickly identify the individuals best suited for the assignment. In making these determinations, Workfront uses a combination of data and complex algorithms.
Projects are never static. Rather, they are living, breathing organisms that change and shift over time. Using Workfront’s project management features, groups can create task lists and assign tasks to specific individuals. Users can also view updates and issues in one, centralized place.
Using Workfront’s inline editing features, you can edit your list of tasks and adjust due dates based on realistic timelines and expectations. These changes are handled through real-time collaboration capabilities and an easy-to-use “My Work” screen, which eliminates the need for you to waste time navigating from project to project or page to page.
Project Management & Task Updates
With Workfront, organizations can collect data and create customized views for complete visibility. Rather than spending hours compiling data, businesses are able to leverage Workfront’s reporting capabilities to keep on top of key metrics.
Select from the more than 50 out-of-the-box reports that come included with Workfront. You can customize any report using the platform’s drag-and-drop tools. You can also tailor reports with customized views and filtering based on user permissions and roles.
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25 reviewers had the following to say about Workfront's features:
Flexibility is key and also the enemy :) It has great ability for project management task tracking and report generation.
Overall it's a good tool. There is a lot of opportunity for enhancement.
Pros
Team collaboration, project tracking and notification feature
Cons
No risk tracking throughout the project lifecycle Unable to import a project plan back into the same project Unable to assign unnamed resources to tasks Unable to do in-line editing of task notes without going into the specific task
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Reporting and dashboard capabilities into resource management and budgeting to have more control into planning and prioritizing project work.
Pros
User interface is intuitive and collaboration is easy using updates. Reporting tool is robust and online help articles support customization, easy to follow directions even for non-technical users.
Cons
For example, only items from Current projects appear in My Work, but we track work at earlier stages of a project, before it has been approved.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Ease of use for task tracking and project timeline setup.
Cons
Resource planning and scheduling is clunky for trying to schedule project tasks along with consultants with multiple skillsets.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Contract project development and task management / reporting for these projects.
Pros
Workfront offers task management with nice features to expand requests to more complex projects.
Cons
Set up takes forever and the user interface is not as familiar as other programs on the current market.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
As a Business Analyst and a part of Project Management , I have to Keep a Track of how the Status of the Project and the resources working on it.
Pros
Employees are Automatically Notified and updated about the Required Actions.
Cons
This software could be too robust for someone Looking for Software to Track Tasks. Customer Service is disappointing as its not that easy to obtain a specific answer.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Task management for daily tracking of work assignments Management loves the Reporting capabilities available
Cons
Cumbersome interface Reporting has a learning curve Dashboards not perfect, still rely on Excel and Tableau
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Workfront (AtTask) integrates several tools in one great solution.
Pros
-Great reports: As soon as you start creating projects and other tasks you can easily create reports to help you track all the information you need.
Cons
-They are constantly making changes and sometimes this will affect the way things worked, maybe a feature something you really liked or used will go away or stop working and there will be no fix.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Pros
-Loads of functionality and features -Nuanced task-management -Perfect for Project Managers at larger companies
Cons
-Terrible UI/UX; too complex and overwhelming -Really steep learning curve (takes a while to learn) -Should only be used by Project Managers whose role it is to track progress
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It's great for tracking project progress, work breakdown structure, integration with timesheets features, collaboration, online availability.
Cons
Also, notification management is a bit confusing...
Rating breakdown
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The reports & dashboard feature of WF gives a high level overview of all projects, task & issue’s.
Pros
Easy to customize the reporting and dashboard feature.
Cons
Nothing major comes to mind, we are happy with our purchase of Workfront and they are improving the application from input from their clients. If you see something you think needs improvement then submit a product idea and they will review and then add into production.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Workfront (AtTask) has the ability to maintain operational level of task scheduling and updating, valuable feature Timesheet for time capturing, and versatile reporting.
Pros
Project Management Features, and My Work interface are the most efficient AtTask features, as they provide project team members with insight into project progress, each other's updates.
Cons
Reporting needs more flexibility with Groupings and Dashboard exports.
I was an end user, and used it to account for my time, track my projects from start to finish, share proofs, get feedback, and communicate with internal clients.
Pros
The basic project management capabilities, the continuous innovation and adaptations we are able to implement, and how it can become whatever tool you need it to be when you set it up the right way.
Cons
I miss my old project management software's "start/stop" timer for tracking time, but apparently they are considering adding this to workfront.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
So far the use of Workfront has not improved much from the move Redmine product to this one.
Pros
Allows tracking of notes and tagging individuals to send email directly from tasks. Also allows documentation to be attached to tasks
Cons
Hard to organize and keep track of individuals assigned across multiple projects and tasks.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
While some of the bigger enterprise features and integrations may be missing, all the essentials as readily available, easily accessible, and not too difficult to setup.
Pros
Here are some of the things to like about Workfront: the ability proof web pages with live click throughs, version control, simulated browsers and devices, inline comments, a hierarchy of approvals, and progress taskbar.
Cons
Here are things that Workfront could use a little improvement: custom forms, integration to marketing platforms for deliverables on task management calendar (Hubspot specifically), more intuitive gantt charts for tracking team progress, and user views/rights that allow end-users to view and share projects without custom permissions.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are using Workfront to track Learning/Development projects and programs.
Pros
Reporting, project timeline scheduling, custom data
Cons
inability to integrate with older versions of Outlook, limits of worker licenses to make small updates to projects/issues/tasks, inability to forecast projects/capacity without a lot of work and detail
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I love that the interface is not over-designed. It's simple and gives me everything I need to see in one place.
Cons
Also a time tracker would be helpful, so I can "log" in and out of each project to track my time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The tool is allowing us to accurately track the progress of projects across clients as well as track time sheets and create reports by client to look at hours.
Cons
Because there is so much you can do, it is sometimes more difficult than it should be to do simple tasks.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Workfront
Really consider your needs and the likelihood of ever using all of the advanced features that this software has. I would probably not recommend it for a small agency. There are probably simpler tools. But for medium to large size agencies, it can replace several other tools that you may be using into one.
It is easy to execute a project plan with this software.
-Project visibility across multiple groups & departments -Reporting/tracking on time delivery of deliverables & projects -More insight into workload of users on different teams
Pros
-Project visibility across multiple teams - Workfront makes it easy for different groups to work on projects together & provide updates through the system, so all your project information is gathered in one place.
Cons
-Resource allocation - I think that the process of bulk assigning users to project tasks is a bit clunky, but I still like the feature.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are new to Workfront. It would be helpful to have a site map of the platform and a dictionary of terms.
Pros
It seems to have a lot of potential for collaboration and project tracking/reporting.
Cons
It is challenging to learn as there are so many dimensions and ways to accomplish the same task.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Project Management and workflow requests
Best project management tool out there- thanks for making our job queue, intake, project collaboration, project tracking, and project reporting so much easier!
We are using WorkFront for about 2 years now and is very pleased with the functionality and feature set it provides to meet our needs to manage Workfront takes time and effort to implement, but anything worthwhile should.
Pros
Customization and Small Duration to be built and including good tools for Project Management In case of owning a lot of tasks on daily basis: Workfront is the best for monitoring and follow up Including all the required Reports for Top Management Very Good Support Team Always upgrading and adding new features and reports
Cons
I couldn’t reach how to automate prioritizing projects and assigning project, I am searching for this feature currently Company should have a process before using this software else it will not add anything to the work flow Higher Cost than other simpler software’s companies Hard to get team members to update data consistently, which impacts project status/reporting
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The collaboration functions are nicely designed and works very well.
Cons
The price is quite higher than other project management tools.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Workfront
Start with the trial and get familiar with the UI. Use the more advanced features, like APIs, only after you have a good understanding of how the system works.
