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Today all kinds of functional departments of any size use Confluence, from technical teams and project management groups, to marketing, HR, legal, and finance. All teams get work done with Confluence.
Lean project management teams, agile software development teams, Kanban teams, remote teams, teams that need real-time collaboration.
In my experience, Confluence is the best tool at effectively organizing large volumes of documentation. It's UI is very clean and easy to navigate.
The text based search option for documents sometimes sucks. I do not get the results that I am looking for which is something I dislike about this tool.
It is the best documentation for our organization it help our company to puts all the important notes and future planning at one place.
It's beyond irritating that exporting documents as a PDF is so horrendous out of the box. I also find the concept of Actions vs Jira issues confusing.
I am really happy with the tool. We use it in many different ways and I believe it is really good and important to have it.
I dislike the page editing features and the inability to copy and paste information from Confluence into other pieces of software without the editing causing issues.
This is used as the main collaborative platform in our company, I am excited how it helps to have the best knowledge base and intranet.
Now I need to upload to google docs and import as google doc rather than word. The error messages sometimes are on the level of "something went wrong.
I love the simplicity of the design and how easy it is to use overall. It is exactly what I would expect from a software that helps me be productive and keep my workflow organized.
It is a pity that swimlines function are paid. Mobile version could be an app not webpage.
This is the best tool if you are just starting out as a project manager. This is so easy to use with beautiful UI and UX.
The functionality of the software on the free version is very limited, obviously. The paid version has more functionality but there is no customization possible (that I'm aware of).
It's simpler than Trello and has some features that make it very good to organize all your tasks. It's integrated with pomodoro timer which is great.
It is also difficult to direct-message, particularly on mobile devices.
I like the simplicity of kanbanflow which helps me to create a board that helps organise my projects and save so unnecessary work.
It repeat task functionality could be better, showing just what is next to be done, but it only show all the future tasks, which make some tasks to appear in the wrong time.
Casandra M. : My name is Casandra. I am an administrative support manager working for a relatively small company. I think we have less than 20 employees. And the Confluence app, I would say, probably a four out of five rating. Before Confluence, I pretty much was just texting back and forth to the owner of the company. That's who I work directly under. And she's the clinical director, she's the administrative director, she's just pretty much the entire head of the company. And it was texting and emailing back and forth, and the emails and the texts would get lost amongst each other. And it was just very complicated to have to go through and refer back to find emails and refer back to text messages that were sent weeks and months prior to really try to keep track. We tried an Excel sheet, we tried writing things down, and somewhere along the line things would just get convoluted or complicated because she would try to edit things on the spreadsheet, there would be a complication with me being able to share the spreadsheet, or the editing permissions would change for some reason. And so, with the Confluence app, we both had direct access to the app and it was just us two. There was no, she was locked out of it or she couldn't gain access or we needed to get a new password for it. It was just she always had direct access and I always had direct access, and she could edit things, change things right from there without complications. And then I would see those changes and I would be able to check things off as I go. So it was really easy to keep track of and it made our communication and process much more streamlined and much easier to accomplish. We chose Confluence, just kind of winging it and hoping. We were shooting in the dark and just grabbing different apps we researched on Google, apps that could help us. And that was one of the ones that popped up, and it was really just a "let's try it and see what happens." And it ended up working out really well. It was relatively easy. It was slightly confusing at first, but it was very quickly much easier to understand. Just initially, I think, onboarding with any sort of app or new technology is going to be slightly confusing, but it was definitely less confusing than the majority, I would say, than everything else that we've used. And it was easy to get into it. I don't know. It was complicating initially, but not overly complicating. It's just as confusing as any new product would be. But as soon as we got the flow of it, it was fine. I would personally say that it doesn't cost anything and, again, it's not that challenging to figure out. And for me, it streamlined the process, and for the company, it streamlined our processes. So it's not going to hurt anything to try it. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And if it does, great. You're not any worse off if it does or doesn't work. So.
David: Hi. My name is David. I'm the general manager of a small manufacturing company. I give Kanban four out of five stars, and for more reviews like this, please see below. Before we started using KanbanFlow, we had typically just used Excel spreadsheets to track the progress of our projects for both engineering and the sales teams, and we needed a more robust software with specific product management features. We considered some other offerings, but KanbanFlow is an excellent tool to start with because of how easy it is to use. There were two reasons we started to use KanbanFlow. It stuck out because it works off a web interface. So it didn't require software programs to be installed on our workstations, and it was also free to get started with the program. KanbanFlow is extremely easy to get started with. The drag-and-drop calendar feature was very intuitive and it was very easy as an administrator to create new accounts and assign people to teams. My primary recommendation for someone looking at offerings similar to a KanbanFlow for project management software would be to start with something that's free because a lot of the programs, you are able to have either a trial or there is an entry-level version. So it's really not that difficult to just try out a couple of the different offerings and see which one works best for your specific needs.
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