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LiquidPlanner by LiquidPlanner
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Purchased Date: January 01, 2011
CTO, Alcon Systems Ltd.
March 27, 2011
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Pros
LP has many cool things, but personally, I have really liked the following features:
1. Projects risk planning and management is done in a brilliant and unique way.
2. Progress updating is REALLY easy to update.
3. Amazing reporting capabilities!
Cons
Project management concept is different than the conventional gantt.
There few videos that explains it, but it does requires couple of hours to get used to.
Overall
I have personally tested about every project management solution there is. Nothing gets even close to what the guys in LP have accomplished.
LP provides a non-conventional way of project management, the idea is to deal with risk management as well as time planning. This makes it an ideal platform for us as risk management plays a key role in project planning and management.
The web interface is brilliant and easy to controls, things like: on-going task assignment, working hours reports and status reporting is done purely using LP.
Today, our entire development uses LP and I can safely say, that the overhead of project planning using LP is almost nothing.
I can't understand how LP development team came up with their concept. It is however, how project management should have looked in the first place! In fact, I would really recommend for any project manager to just watch their videos.
Bottom-line: It is one of those things you can't understand how you managed without it.
Purchased Date: December 01, 2009
CTO/CIO, Westgate Business Services
March 11, 2010
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Pros
Having used many project management tools over many years, it's hard to not fall in love with LiquidPlanner. It feels like I've traveled to bizarro world where everything goes right.
I can now put together comprehensive projects faster than I can plan them in my mind. I've never had this experience (including with Excel). Simply put, I don't feel the interface slowing me down. It feels like all "busy work" has been removed.
I never thought I'd have a real-time schedule because of the requirements to maintain it, but LiquidPlanner delivers on this promise. Thank you. I'm embarrassed to say that "what if" scenarios are so easy and fast to do, I've developed stronger intuitive scheduling techniques without understanding exactly why they work. Am I now smarter or dumber?
If you are not the type to love the clock-in/out button on each task, you might be the type to get hooked on adding a few notes when you complete each task because your notes are shared in the team's "blog."
Cons
Introducing a new company-wide system is always hard, but you you can use Liquid Planner to replace your project management tools, time-tracking tools and company blog so that should help reduce the total number of systems.
Currently companies that need a fully-featured document library should stick with what they have. There is an API and the company has been aggressively releasing new features so maybe someday.
If you haven't experienced a lot of project management tools, you may not be as passionate about it as I am. Part of it's appeal is that it does what any other project management tool integrated with a company portal can do, but it does it fast and easy enough that it's actually worth using.
Overall
Through thoughtful design, LiquidPlanner has made a project management application that is a perfect fit for dynamic and collaborative teams. It could replace your current project, task, time management tools and company blog by integrating them all in a natural way.
Liquid Planner has a transparent way of making you be mindful of exactly how the team is using its precious time. Our company president pleaded with me to get it set up so that he could use it as a tool to help the partners understand the team's capacity. He wanted a convincing way to show why more projects could not be taken on without an increase in staff. Liquid Planner allowed me to do this within a day.
I feel like the Liquid Planner designers traveled into my mind to design the perfect project/task/time manager.
Purchased Date: April 01, 2007
Project Manager, Horn Group
January 09, 2010
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Pros
Allows for uncertainty on project work estimates, keeping the schedule fluid and realistic. Has excellent collaboration tools, organizing the conversation around the tasks & project phases. Unlike other collaboration tools, this helps keep the chatter where it's relevant and does not turn into a big mess at the end of the project.
Cons
Don't really have any, I am very happy with the product
Overall
LiquidPlanner is an excellent project management tool. I use it both with the team I manage at my '9-5' job and also with my freelance work. LiquidPlanner allows me to see what resources are overloaded and what tasks are at risk of not being completed on time, then gives me a simple way to reprioritize tasks to ensure that the critical work finishes when it needs to.
LiquidPlanner is also an excellent collaboration tool, with project portals so that collaboration can happen with internal teams and clients.
I am happy to be free of the constraints of MS project, and be able to use a system that gives me exactly what I need.
