Planview AdaptiveWork

Score7.4 out of 10

118 Reviews and Ratings

What is Planview AdaptiveWork?

Planview AdaptiveWork is a web-based collaborative work management software. Planview AdaptiveWork enables users to connect employees and partners and create documents, reports and specialized workflow automation. Planview AdaptiveWork is designed to work across multiple teams to enable cross-company task, project, and resource management.

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Wallace Kesler View profile

Group Leader Product Development in Research & Development at Dunn Edwards (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use AdaptiveWork for project planning and tracking. Features that I use most are timeline estimation and resources allocation. The actual work vs. estimated work functions help me adjust timelines when needed and improve panning for future projects. I am also able to look at my groups actual work performed vs. time that is allocated to current project to plan resource usage.

Pros

Estimate realistic timelines
Properly allocate the available resources
Break down projects into manageable tasks
Track actual time spent on a project and tasks within it

Cons

More intuitive user interface
Simpler project creation
Tutorials for seldom performed tasks

Return on Investment

Makes product development easier to track
Helps establish a routine procedure for project management
Allows a quick view of milestones, progress and resources

Alternatives Considered

Planview AdaptiveWork

Other Software Used

ProductVision

Michael Richard View profile

Head of Engineering in Engineering at Insight Surgery (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview AdaptiveWork as a complete end to end project management software. Beginning with product requests, through to the creation of individual projects, to the daily management and progression of tasks through to project completion. Really useful to be able to tag relevant documentation to projects and have everything in one place.

Pros

Allowing multiple team members to simultaneously work on a project with live updating
Good uptime
Massively customisable

Cons

Project cases get muddled or confused sometimes while running through milestones. Resulting in completion statuses at half-mast. Can be confusing
The mobile app is almost unusable. Would really like to see that completely revamped

Return on Investment

We have seen an increase of around 15% in projects completed in time since we began to use Planview AdaptiveWork
Some aspects of the platform can be overwhelmingly complicated, leading to staff disengaging from usage

Alternatives Considered

Airtable

Verified User

Manager (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are utilizing Planview AdaptiveWork as our primary Resource Management tool. The organization never previously had a way to resource demand plan or forecast, as well as in real time track variance versus planned capacity. They also could not see the entire organization's capacity at one glance. It is our one stop shop for all the above now. Adding Pipelined projects into the system allows us to resource plan ahead of time, especially gaining insights to recruitment needs, instead of just in time resourcing, which causes delays in the hiring needs.

Pros

Many ways to acclimate to the system; documentation, videos, community, and contacts.
Planview provides scalable customization options tailored to the unique needs of each business unit or department. Easily add or remove fields in the system. As the admin, it was easy to learn how to configure.
Offers flexibility to adapt to existing systems and align with organizational workflows and processes. There are multiple ways to customize each part of the system to meet our needs.

Cons

As a resource management tool, managing capacity has been very difficult and even to this day I cannot seem to manage variating FTEs. Using a calendar to calculate capacity is unmanageable. We have many on staff who are not a full 1.0 employees, and we cannot get a resolution how to adjust in the system.
Adding multiple tasks, in bulk, cannot be done at a user level which is very resource management 101. I should be able to go to the user and add/delete projects or change allocations. This makes it very difficult when 1 user is being added to 10s of projects at one time.
The reporting is not intuitive. Generating customized reporting is available, but it is very hard to get something that should be easy, such as capacity in % each month by user, by program/project/or group. That is one example.
It is difficult to manage tasks that have assignments over 25 resources as the screen limits view to 25. This requires a lot of time to tab and refresh each tab if a resource was added or removed (recalculating demand).

Return on Investment

Our goal is to decrease turnover by 10%
20% saving on increased utilization across the organization
20% revenue increase due to hiring proactively

Other Software Used

Salesforce CMS, Deltek Costpoint, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Teams

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Princess Cruise Lines, we use AdaptiveWork for user/vendor management, financial processing, timekeeping, and project management. The Time Entry feature has saved the company a lot of headaches when billing clients for the projects they are working on. Before, they would send an invoice without a record of hours worked, so this has helped out immensely.

Pros

Reporting.
Project Management,
Being able to customize the tool to make it fit our business needs.

Cons

We've had technical issues this year with the Global Search functionality. It only worked for specific users, but this has been resolved.

Return on Investment

Since we use AdaptiveWork as a financial tool as well, the customization has allowed us to improve many processes.

Alternatives Considered

Clarity Business Solutions, Microsoft Project Server and Planview PPM Pro

Other Software Used

Slack, Admin Tools for Jira, Jira Software

Verified User

Consultant in Corporate (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in a Corporate Real Estate group and we use Planview AdaptiveWork to manage all of our real estate projects. All resources have access to the system to update progress on tasks and keep track of dates, and progress on the projects. Discussion boards are used to communicate back and forth on projects and we also have many configurations on our back-end to create automation for approvals, population of data in the property cards, etc.

Pros

Flexibility in how we as an organization want to track our projects/data.
Ability to put together reports for any data point in the system/and create charts as needed for that data.
Capacity Planning tracking.

Cons

When it comes to reports, it would be great if there was an easy way to roll-up the results instead of having to create configurations to summarize data.
The consultant experience has not been great when it comes to more advanced needs for configurations. The consultants are in a different timezone which limits hours to work together and it seems hours are spent trying to determine what the requirement is and when the initial thought is that the configuration is possible, it may result in not being able to assist.
Charts in the reports section are not able to be exported
When pulling a report together, you need to make sure you pull from the right "item" or level. If you decide you need data that resides in another "item" or level, you need to re-do the report from the beginning.
Because the system is so configurable and I imagine different clients use the system differently, when you need something automated in your account, where you need to pull a consultant or SME in, the person doesn't necessarily understand your configurations and how things work so they are unable to give recommendations on how to solve problems that don't impact other configurations you already have set up in the system.
Templates cannot be updated unless they are pulled into a project and then re-saved. In the templates module, you are not able to open a template and edit to re-save. Therefore, making updates to a template can be very time consuming having to find a project to use to pull it in, make updates, re-save and then pull out. It would be great if the templates module allowed you to edit the templates and re-save.

Return on Investment

Planview AdaptiveWork allows us to report out on the status of our real estate projects on a regular basis. We have internal objectives that need to be met for on-time delivery and Planview AdaptiveWork provides us the data to be able to show how the teams are tracking on delivery.

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