Function Point vs Nifty: Which is a better fit?

Maddie M.: Hi, I'm Maddie. I'm a digital media planner at a marketing agency, and I would give Function Point a four out of five stars. Two of the biggest problems that we solve with Function Point is determining SOWs for new clients, projecting costs for any given project, and also tracking time against those costs with automatic time sheets that we set up. My favorite part about Function Point is the communication that you can have back and forth with other people at your company. So you can add comments or sub tasks or attachments, other things like that to kind of keep each other updated on the status of a project. So I think that that part is extremely useful in terms of communication within the team. My least favorite part about Function Point is how difficult it can be for projecting your time that you have to have for the week. So you have to hit a certain number of hours during work, but a lot of times the projects aren't easily divided up into other sub tasks to appropriately track those hours on a week by week basis to help you plan your capacity for the given week.

Aryana R.: Hi, I'm Aryana, the founder of a coaching and training company, and I give Nifty a four out of five. I was working in Basecamp, and I found it hard to navigate. When I was looking for something, I'd spend a lot of time trying to find that post or that document, and it was frustrating. I decided to go with Nifty. One, the pricing. It was better than anything else that I'd looked at. I also liked it was more intuitive, and it was like I was looking at a desktop, not just this blank screen. I was able to put my calendar in there, my team members, alert people easily. It had kind of this feeling of a dashboard that was modifiable. My team and I are still working on onboarding. I found that this is what I do as a business owner is I get my team to do, "How does this all work?" Then they teach me how to do it. I would say we really ran at it very quickly and we got some projects in there. I was really impressed as we were doing it. Then things got busy, so we started to go back to Google Docs. Interestingly, just yesterday, I was like, "I'm done Google docs. I'm done emails back and forth. I need to get us using Nifty again." I started to put some projects in, some task lists. There's something really satisfying about that, when you can be like, "Tick it off. I did it." If you're considering Nifty, I suggest doing their free trial, if they still have it, and really give it a robust, try. Get your team members working in it and put an entire project in. It's going to help you because you can still use the content if you decide not to continue with their trial, but that's one thing that I wished I'd done when I was researching is just give it a good solid test because then once you do commit to it, you're going to stick with it and you're going to use it fully.