Planview AgilePlace

Score9.8 out of 10

71 Reviews and Ratings

What is Planview AgilePlace?

AgilePlace is a project management solution built around flexibility, data-driven analytics, and workflow automation. The software was acquired by Planview in December 2017 to expand that company's capabilities.

Categories & Use Cases

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Real-Time Analytics: Utilize board health metrics involving bottlenecks, WIP, and throughput to guide the optimization of workflows, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery. Lean and Agile metrics can be used to assess team performance and promote continuous improvement.

PI Planning: Offers enterprise Kanban boards to visualize the work of teams regardless of the methodologies they apply or workflows they follow, and insights into progress and create opportunities for better alignment.

Dependency Visualization and Management: Surfaces risks to plans resulting from cross-team dependency conflicts, blockers, and capacity constraints, and helps drive proactive measures to enable teams to deliver on time.

Team Planning and Coordination: Boards can be used to breakdown work, build and manage plans, and execute against strategy to deliver more value to customers, faster.

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Task Management
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
Category average: 9
Gantt Charts
Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.
Category average: 7.9
Resource Management
Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.
Category average: 9.2

Timesheet Tracking
Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.
Category average: 8.3
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.
Category average: 6.1
Mobile Access
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
Category average: 4.7

Pam Sargent

Planview Systems Delivery Manager at NASCO (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we use AgilePlace to visually see the tasks/initiatives that a team is responsible for. This is typically specifically to one team and is not work that crosses teams, at this time. This ensures that we are aware of all tasks/initiatives that are currently in flight along with what is in the backlog. Prior to AgilePlace some teams captured this information in Excel or Sharepoint. This left issues for true collaboration, easy visibility along with capturing supporting documentation.

Pros

Visual kanban board that is easy to customize as the team's needs change
Real time collaboration allowing teams working remotely to stay up to date on current status
Allows versatility for how a team needs to capture details on the work at hand by utilizing card icons, card types and custom data points
Card scoring is easy to setup and provides the team the ability to set values to better prioritize their backlog
Ability to add card automation to take out some of the repetitive manual actions

Cons

Ability to create & access in app reporting
Better administration of setting up & updating user access to boards

Return on Investment

The implementation of AgilePlace for team activity/initiative tracking has made our teams more productive and aware of business needs.

Mateo Méndez

IT PMO Manager in Information Technology at Cuatrecasas (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use as a predefined tool for our lawyers and also for corporate teams.It is needed for our day by day as our management tool and also it is essential for the coordination of the different teams.This tool enables the visual management needed in many teams to easily and quickly see the pending, in progress and completed work.It also provides the necessary kpi for a correct follow-up of the tasks at all levels of the pyramid.

Pros

Visual Management
Keeps everything organized
Automation of administrative tasks

Cons

Automation could be improved
Reporting
Custom Icons
More functionalities in custom fields

Return on Investment

better process efficiency
greater team coordination
better decision making
better prioritization of work

Alternatives Considered

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Verified User

Analyst in Professional Services (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

General task management, prioritization of projects, communication of status and issues. Different teams use it in various ways - some are very sophisticated and use it to manage workflows. Other groups use it as bare Kanban boards. That's the beauty of the tool - you can use it as a simple tool or tie it into mature project management methodologies.

Pros

Ease of organization of projects.
Easy to manage task lists.
Allows for customizing cards/boards.

Cons

Need to be able to CUSTOMIZE content of notifications.
I need to be able to add a status to indicate that the item was closed without being done - for example, it was no longer needed, but my only option is to say it was done.

Return on Investment

Great organizing tool to help standardize our methodologies.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've been using Planview AgilePlace for the past years to help manage my team's projects. Overall, I've been very impressed with the platform.One of the things I like most about Planview AgilePlace is its ease of use. The interface is intuitive and easy to learn, even for users with no prior experience with agile project management tools.I also appreciate the platform's wide range of features and functionality. Planview AgilePlace has everything I need to track my team's progress, collaborate with stakeholders, and make informed decisions about my projects.

Pros

Easy
Affordable
Great UI

Cons

Automation
Integrations

Return on Investment

Good resource management
Task management

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Organization is currently using AgilePlace to track team deliverables for each team. Ability to customize swim lanes has given different teams the flexibility to use AgilePlace to be used across different verticals like IT Operations, SAFe, Software Development, Strategy & Execution and much more.

AgilePlace has certainly made the Agile ways of working easier with better visibility of backlogs, approved work, work in progress, etc. On top of that, creating parent child relationships across different boards, makes it a great tool to work with orchestrate layers of work.

Pros

Card Scoring mechanism based on Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
Parent child relationships across different boards
Ability to connect to tools like JIRA and Planview Portfolios

Cons

All and all there is little to no scope for improvement because Planview's Product Owner of the tool is doing all that's needed to keep the tool up to date with continuous improvement.