LiquidPlanner Reviews

The Gantt chart overviews of the team's workload are very helpful in seeing when a particular team member will be available to work on a project. This helps us schedule new projects and give more realistic estimates of completion time. It's also great to track time in the same place where we schedule projects.

There's a big learning curve. It's hard to find things and even our experienced users often have to think for a minute on where something is or how to do something in the tool. It's also a little on the pricey side.

To get an overall picture of what your team is working on and when they have availability to take on new project work, nothing is better than LiquidPlanner!

This is the only tool we found that does a good job of accurately representing the "big picture." We use other tools for different things (like task management and project management), but to get an overall snapshot of what people are working on and when they are available to work on new things, Liquid Planner is the best!

The ability to create multiple tasks in a project folder, assign estimated hours to a project and then share the project with my manager. Keep tracking of users time spent on a particular task or project.

The ability to create reports of the data that has been inputted into multiple projects and tasks. Getting down to the checklist level, the ability to report on completion would be great. Mobile needs some work as it lacks a lot of features.

If you are having issues keeping track of members projects and want to get a clear sense of what they are working on, get this app. Set deadlines and obtain detailed tasks that would be required for the particular project. Tasks, when created and completed by a user, can be emailed to the liquid planner administrator. Assign an ambassador to lead the charge on making sure users are using the app. It could be difficult at first to get those that are hesitant to use and continue to use it. Is it micromanaging? Yes and no, but depends on how you manage it and treat your users. Reward users that use it constantly and show case how their input is making a difference to the organization.

Keeping track of internal users hours being spent on projects. Not knowing how many hours or where someone is on a project, made it difficult to assign new projects without falling behind.Forecasting new projects and ability to estimate a projects time spent.

As a project manager with over 50 different clients with multiple projects, it's difficult to stay organized. We implemented LP about a year ago and it's definitely been a work in progress, but it's made our jobs SO much easier. With LP, we can easily track our project, who's working on what, give deadlines, run reports, and look at everything at once. It's easy to create a delete tasks, prioritize items, and give clients updates on their projects.

LiquidPlanner was tricky to get used to--as all new software products are. But, I feel like we've truly gotten the hang of things and now it's the lifeline of our project maintenance.

Give it a try! It's so easy to use and they are very responsive for trainings and help.

It keeps us all organized. Anyone in the company can look at a project and see what the status is (Is it close to being done? Are we currently working on it? etc.) With the amount of clients and different projects we offer, I can't figure out another software we could use that would allow us to track and manage as well as lp does.

Like so many other project managers, I used MS Project to craft project plans and had become accustomed to the structuring and reconciliation nuances associated with the more traditional Project Planning tool. LiquidPlanner really elevated the functionality of a traditional project planning tool by developing a web-based tool that also integrates with other backend functions associated with project tracking (billing and invoicing from real-time project tracking, etc.). When I moved to a different project and had to revert back to traditional MS Project software, it felt like such a time warp compared to the intuitive GUI in Liquid Planner.

The only concerns I had about Liquid Planner centered around the ramp-up time it takes for users (and overall organizational culture) to adapt to using and navigating within the tool, especially how to use and interpret this tool from a portfolio ecosystem management perspective (tracking 50+ projects, etc.). It's just the typical challenges associated with using a centralized tracking tool (changing user and even manager mentalities from a de-centralized [one or few projects] to a broader centralized perspective, in which reporting and consistency in data entry impact analytics for more than just one project. It can pose a bit of an organizational learning curve but nothing that's overly concerning.

The only other concern I noted, interestingly enough, is the same selling point: the ease in data entry. The tool is totally user friendly, very quick to navigate and data entry is a breeze. Because of this, however, it can result in problems if the user population and role based permissions are not clearly defined (and more specifically - limited). I did see instances in early phases where multiple users were moving too quickly in the tool, and making drag/drop changes and/or casually re-labeling changes for critical project files - basically too many "on-the-fly" changes without full understanding how these changes impact reporting and tracking, as well as integration with other systems that rely on consistent data inputs in LiquidPlanner for PMO reporting, etc. But again, this can be mitigated if strict role based permissions are put in place very early on, and designating a very small group of users that have permissions to make actual edits in the tool.

Be very deliberate about role based permissions and invest quality time in training - both for initial launch and long term optimization. The tool is very intuitive and fluid, but as the company grows and the portfolio of projects being tracked evolve, the tactical aspects of utilizing the tool will need to be reevaluated periodically, to ensure the tactical aspects of daily use of LiquidPlanner compliment the data entry/reporting consistency needed from a strategic perspective.

Aside from better reporting and using a web-based tool as opposed to standalone project plan software, the reporting capabilities and integration with billing activities are major gains associated with using LiquidPlanner. Also, the option to use document links and store artifacts and/or approval links in the tool is SO much more efficient than the traditional PM model (project plan is in MS Project, approvals are via email, emails and document artifacts are stored in a repository, etc. etc. - then the reconciliation model is all over the place, requiring multiple tools and sources to complete what should be standard validations). Liquid Planner offers a lot of communication and archive storage/link upload options which dramatically improve efficiency by reducing steps and number of places to go track down historical artifacts.

We’ve been using Liquid Planner for the last 5 years now and I can say that we are now managing 100% of our projects with it.

Building a platform like Potion is a lot of work in product design, marketing, development and customer support but Liquid Planner has been a huge help when it comes to managing our projects.

Whether it’s dealing with our internal or customer projects, Liquid Planner (my guys call it LP) has been a huge help. We’re using only part of the tools provided by LP, such as packages, tasks, attributions, deadlines, time tracking, resource planning and scheduling, but it’s already bringing a huge providing us with both flexibility and structure.

The help resources are really thorough also and help us get the information we need to use it in an even better way.

Finally, and I think it’s certainly one of the biggest strength of Liquid Planner, its support team is tremendous. All of our requests are always answered with concise and clear replies that push us forward.

As any PM tool, there is a learning curve and you need to get the team using it in the good way. Thankfully, the help resources are great.

Go through the help resources.

At Potion, we help small companies create and manage their online community of customers. They can do it on Facebook but they don’t own the data and have a very limited reach (usually less than 5% of their fan base actually sees what they post). On Potion, they create their own fully branded community, they own their data and have a 100% reach.

I like the ability to keep everything together. We have multiple people working on the same project, and it helps that there is one place to keep track of all of the documents and multimedia that goes with each project.

The emails are strange. They are infrequent. Sometimes I go days without getting them, sometimes I get a deluge. Also, it's strange that they have you reply via email and then it shows up in the chat.

We solve the communication problem of not knowing who is working on what. We solve the issue of having different pieces of a project in different places. We see the benefit of everyone being able to see the latest version of the project.

LiquidPlanner truly is the best way to capture both the most minute details and the most important big picture aspects of a project. One of its biggest strengths allowing all project contributors to log time on a task by task basis, then summarizing that work output in customizable, easy to understand dashboards for management to make decisions off of.

It does take some time to learn. Some of the less tech-savvy members of my company continue to have issues using it, even though we have been phasing it in for about 6 months. Probably the biggest drawback is that, at least for my company, anyone can reorder or rename a project. This is a big deal for us, because each box under the "All Projects" tab corresponds to a different engineering R&D project. The order of these determines the allocation of resources, so that order makes a big difference in which projects get priority. To my knowledge, there is nothing stopping any user from manually reordering that list. It would get corrected immediately, of course, but that power is disturbing. Plus, anyone can rename any project. A colleague of mine accidentally renamed one of the R&D projects to his domain login password! He did not realize his error until someone else in the company brought it to his attention half an hour later. Anyways, this seems to indicate that LiquidPlanners biggest strenghths (user empowerment, flexibility, customizability) can also be its biggest risks.

Make sure you have an LP Administrator. Even on a medium scale, the switchover and implementation will not go smoothly without someone shepherding that process

Solves the problem of prioritizing R&D projects and allocating company resources based on that priority. Brings all the resource groups (design team, machining center, lab testing etc.) together to work off of one priority list

Comprehensive project management software for large teams or large scope projects, Liquid Planner makes communication record between individual team members accessible to others on the team who want to keep up with changes. Task Management lists assigned to individual people are easy to update or move out deadlines. Links to project documents are easy to attach and send via email so team can use same version in project documents without everyone downloading copies to their own computer and having outdated materials.

Liquid Planner is not that easy to use at first -- using the flowcharting takes some time and experience to learn. This software is for the professional project manager with a complicated large scope, large dollar value project which is where it is worthwhile to learn the expertise required to make the most of it's capabilities.

Be prepared to spend some significant time up front learning how to use this project management software.

Liquid Planner was used as an alternative to SharePoint for a larger team of people from multiple departments. However there needs to be expertise in using Liquid Planner and some training before it can be used. There are on line tutorials the company provides which all team members need to make use of the different features.

Liquid planner allows me to easily keep track of the projects I am working on and track my time against tasks I complete. The ability to add a custom field to track the current state of tasks further enhances the granularity and detail of the reporting.

The interface can be a little cumbersome sometimes I feel. I still haven't figured out how to work well out of the Timesheet view and work mainly in the projects view.

Make sure you think about how you want to structure your projects and how you need to report on time to ensure you configure your LP account correctly. We have had to adjust that a few times which makes reporting a little harder.

LP allows my organization to accurately keep track of billable time and ensure projects are on schedule. It has improved our time management and tracking.

Liquid Planner has so many built-in capabilities. I personally like the way I can create tasks for a project, assign them to resources, and immediately see the completion date. I can set deadlines on tasks or folders and see where there might be problems in the timeline. I also use this software for its timesheet capabilities. It is easy to see how much time has been logged against a task and if that is over or under the estimate. Liquid Planner has a great support team that we have leveraged as well.

One thing I disliked most was the inability to understand what was causing risk on a particular project or individual task. However Liquid Planner just came out with a release that highlights exactly what I was looking for.

They have a great support team. If you have any questions, they are very helpful and truly listen to any problems you are having.

Wow, I can't even imagine my daily work without Liquid Planner. We schedule all of our work in Liquid Planner and track all of our time there. We have tried a few other project management platforms and time tracking software but this one is the best all-around option by far. I love having everything I need in one place.

Perhaps unironically, what is the best and the worst part of LiquidPlanner is is rigid adherence to it's method of tracking and reporting on projects. I started using LiquidPlanner in an environment where I was trying to get everyone moving in the same general direction from an disorganized mess of project management -- and move us out of spreadsheets.

The rigidity of the system is both it's strength and it's weakness. If you can completely commit to the LiquidPlanner way of life, it works wonderfully and does all of these amazing things. However, it's a little bit of a situation where if you don't have the whole system running, you are missing out on some really nice features - like estimated end dates.

Be prepared to have to rethink your project lifecycle flow and make it match better into the LiquidPlanner project view. Managing billing rates and pay rates can be a little un-intutive, but not *too* bad once you understand the table.

The UI looks slick, but can be pretty busy and very confusing if you don't know exactly what you are looking for.

Customization (like adding additional fields, different ways of handling time-tracking / completion projects) is a little limited.

Project Management tasks suchs as project accounting, resourcing, and overall project tracking where handled through a series of 10-15 spreadsheets -- LiquidPlanner has allowed us to boil that down to just one or two (to make up for the lackluster reporting functionality). Overall, LiquidPlanner has been a huge net positive for us, but their rigidity in their way of doing things with little meaningful customization available has somewhat stalled our roll out.

I like that Liquid planner has multiple folders where you can store different information, and keep track of projects. You can also have as many users on each task and have ability to assign to someone, which I think is the most important, so you can see who is the last one on the assignment.

It is a little bit too complicated, and needs to be simplified. I see that there are lots of steps and you can definitely achieve a lot with Liquid Planner. But in our company's case, I think if it can be toned down, it will be more efficient.

Be aware that there is definitely a learning curve, so it might take some time to get used to before fully utilizing all the features that liquid planner comes with.

We are trying to be more organized and efficient. We had a lack of communication between the departments, but after using Liquid Planner and having everyone on the software, it definitely makes everything more cohesive.

Provides comprehensive time tracking for small to large projects for unlimited numbers of clients, with good reporting visuals as well as full spreadsheet exports.

Despite the designers best attempts, it can be pretty overwhelming when working with a large number of projects. It's perhaps best when focused on three or four projects at once, rather than working on a wide range of on-going projects and tasks.

Best to follow their examples when first setting up projects, rather than thinking you can wing it and find your own way. If tracking a lot of time, be sure to add the 'My Timers' column to your view for quick starting-and-stopping of the timer in the projects list. Be aware that the view may reset with each new update from LiquidPlanner's developers!

LiquidPlanner allows us to report on how much time our team are spending with each of our internal 'clients', and gives us some good visuals to ensure we're providing each client with a fairly balanced amount of labour each month.

The program has the ability to track your work, if your work is done in it. The way we use it in our department is a centralized place for teachers to send a support ticket.

The analytics are clunky at best, you can't search by tags. You can't send email's from the system so the follow-up get's lost if the person doesn't reply on.

Be sure you know what you are looking for in a planner/tracking system.

As of right now we use it as a ticketing system. If used well it can be a centralized place to track support.

I enjoy LiquidPlanner overall. I like the project management and time tracking combination that this program has to offer. My team uses this heavily to track projects as well as our time. We can input the amount of time spent on projects/tasks as well as updates on the progress. I also like how you can upload files related to each project. This really helps us with organizing.

There is nothing that I dislike about LiquidPlanner. Thus far I've had all positive experience with it and can't say anything negative.

10/10 would recommend this product. I believe it could be very useful in many industries, but I can definitely see the benefits in the marketing worlds.

We are solving any issues related to project management and time tracking. I've noticed benefits with both of those purposes. There are also other benefits to the program. If I have questions about a project i'm not specifically working on, I can go to another user's projects and see where it stands.

I like how it is easy to organize and create major projects with subfolders under. We use Liquid Planner in our meetings to go through each project and give updates. I enjoy how you can not only document projects and stages of each, but also track your time.

There is not much that I dislike about the product. One thing that is a bit bothersome is it can be a bit confusing. There are many categories and a lot to read when you create a project.

Would highly recommend!

Business problems include organization. LiquidPlanner is very beneficial to companies, especially those in the Marketing industry. You can keep track of what you are doing, and so can your coworkers.

It's great for keeping track of tasks and projects, that's mainly what I use it for. Also like the ability to upload documents to a central place for everyone to review.

Learning curve was pretty steep. I know they have tutorials and whatnot, but even with those it took a few months to really get the hang of it. Even now though, I'd say we still aren't using it to its full potential.

If you're going to use it, invest the time to learn it to get the most from it. It may seem complicated and a lot to take in at once, but once you digest all the things you can do, I actually find it fairly intuitive. I typically find that commands and options I perform do exactly as I expect them to.

Project tracking and most recently work hour tracking. It has made our work flow more efficient and helped with collaboration.

I like that you can easily direct comments to specific people. However, you are able to keep all comments in a specific place so that it is easily searchable and you can look through the history, as opposed to an email chain, in which certain emails might not be accessible to all. I also like that things are organized by project, so that it makes it easier when you need to go back and look for an old comment or project.

The search function is a little too restrictive. If I want to search for XX-11 but I'm not sure whether it is "XX 11" or "XX-11", searching for "11" will not find "XX-11". You have to know to search for *11.

We use this software to list out projects and specific project tasks. It has allowed us to delegate tasks to specific people, and keep track of tasks that need to be done. We do not use the time management parts of the software.

We are an ecommerce agency in charge of website creation and marketing optimization focus in ROI.

Liquid Planner has been awesome for us, it allow us having closer and realistic deadlines in our projects .Thanks to “My work” characteristic, it has become an assistant to every team member in the production department and it has helped us to decrease our stress level in our agency, making us have clear deadlines dates and calculating the remaining effort of our projects.

And thats not it, constantly Liquid Planner has made constant software optimizations and that has made us feel safe and protected in our company growth

We are a multiproject and collaborative company and Liquid Planner has been perfect for our ideologies.

Liquid Planner has help us a lot and we got nothing but appreciation for the software

Read the documentationfirst before using it, liquidplanner has a complete new way to project management and its awesome!

It allow us having closer and realistic deadlines in our projects .Thanks to “My work” characteristic, it has become an assistant to every team member in the production department and it has helped us to decrease our stress level in our agency, making us have clear deadlines dates and calculating the remaining effort of our projects.

Calendar features allows users to see, at a glance, what projects they're scheduled for on which days. Makes advance planning a breeze.

System to clearly identify projects that will not be completed by deadline is helpful for realigning staff and project timelines.

No repeating task feature. Often our tasks are repeated daily, weekly, monthly, etc. and each has to be created uniquely. These types of repeating tasks do not work well with what they have suggested as a work-around: the "Events" feature.

Be aware of the learning curve.

Project management for busy firm with many clients, teams, obligations and varied deadlines. LiquidPlanner has allowed us to more quickly prioritize project timelines and establish realistic deadline estimates.

The best feature in LiquidPlanner is the ability to customize our setup to meet our needs. Many tools try to dictate a workflow but LiquidPlanner works well within our current workflow without tedious or complicated configurations.

I wish that LiquidPlanner had support for project management style documents like project charters and feature specifications. I would also like a higher level project view that gave an indication of all projects currently underway, who was assigned, and how long the project schedule is.

If you need a flexible tool that can conform to your desired way of working and not the other way around, then LiquidPlanner is worth looking into.

We would like to easily organize tasks across multiple projects and stakeholders. With LiquidPlanner we can see scheduling for all developers regardless of the project or system they are working on. We can also easily drill down to the tasks we are currently working on to see what needs to be done and what is completed and how long it was worked on.

Fulfills my needs as a software developer, has concise functionality without being bloated. The card view and multiple owners is a great addition.

Changes to your policy that require that you have at least 10 users means that I can no longer refer your product to other people. Historically, I've brought 4 different companies on board with your product, but since they want to start out with a small user base and expand as they use it, they are unwilling to get off the ground with the product. Can't you be a little more creative about how you handle product attrition?

Otherwise, my largest complaint is the requirement to refresh all of the time. Many modern applications update in real time using signalR or angular.js, liquidplanner is starting to feel a little dated.

Watch all of the training videos, you'll be surprised at what it can do.

Project management, time tracking, project scheduling and projecting, task delegation.

The reporting. LP's reporting is head and shoulders above the rest. The reports are easy to make and provide a great tool for sifting through data.

I also like the way the projects are presented. Too many of the competitors make it hard to get a good look at many projects at once. With the LP tree structure I am able to get a feel for where each project stands with just a quick glance.

Other features I like are:

Timesheet exports are great.

Custom fields.

Customize-able columns.

The scheduling is way too cumbersome. We dont even use it. I understand the intent and think it's quite nice, but it just takes too much management to setup the schedule so it provides any value. We still use a Google doc for our scheduling.

Multiple owners has proven problematic for us. It was better before. The biggest problem is that if one person logs time to a task it doesnt reduce the overall effort. In theory, it's fine because everyone would be updating remaining efforts but it just doesnt work in the real world.

We need much more granular permissions. I'd like to be able to restrict people from setting activities, moving things, running specific reports, setting fields, etc. For our purposes, LP seems to only have two levels of permissions.

We desperately need daily timesheet submission. The way it's setup right now we have no way of knowing if people logged their time day to day. It also makes end of the month reconciliation extremely difficult.

The portals were not a success for us. We tried getting rid of Basecamp and using portals but it did not work out well.

We really need the ability to have custom fields that arent just dropdowns. Doesnt make a lot of sense to not have that ability.

Pretty good product overall. If you need reporting, it's a great tool.

It's not a replacement for all of your tools though.

I love LP and tell a lot of people about it but it has it's shortcomings.

The ability for everyone to see where each project stands at any given moment has been extremely valuable.

Our company digs deep into our numbers and we wouldnt be able to do that with other systems.

Being able to associate tasks to separate packages and for checklist items to be able to be associated to different team members on a task by task basis. It is is also useful to be able to add notes and associate files with an individual task.

On bulk uploading multiple tasks in the single line window, you can't add in more data. eg. Max efforts, expected activity, etc. Excel upload of data is very buggy and doesn't offer much feedback on data issues. It would be great if you could set different team members' work piles to be separate of one another if required so that it doesn't affect one another's time frame or schedule. It would be great if this could be integrated with Google Calendar as well.

The ability to get a picture of resources and who in the team is putting in the most hours to measure performance. The company is also benefiting from working to best case scenario timings as opposed to working within a rough budget. From the data in LP we can then revise our budgets for work and amend how we price a project.

Great way to duplicate tasks and see projects from an overview standpoint as a project manager.

From a marketer standpoint, it's difficult to keep track of the tasks, there isn't an easy way to see tasks listed out. Also the way it shows priority items is different from other platforms. The learning curve for this product is quite high.

Take time to learn about the product and once you actually get the product, watch all tutorials and learn as much as possible. 'Done' vs 'Deleting' is one of the things to look out for.

We ended up switching our Marketing team off of Liquid Planner to something more task based.

It's great to bring together the different teams on a company such as the graphic/web/marketing teams.

The staff went to extraordinary lengths to address some issues I had with Liquid Planner. I can recommend them or their product highly enough.

The UI could do with a slight improvement, looks slightly dated but this does not affect its kick-ass performance!

If you manage projects that change and that are dynamic. Liquid Planner should be your go-to software!

The Gantt chart algorithm is perfect for giving a high-level overview of all projects I am maintaining at one time.

Not sure where to start, but definitely the UI, the access to the "back-end" with a front-end. Easy access and quick time tracking capabilities. It's quick and easy interface allows you to jump in and start playing immediately. The analytics is real-time, easy and robust. I could keep going! Their Cust Support is amazing and I have a great relationship with the CEO. It's great to have a successful company still be so personal touch.

That you can't require fields, inability to see "notifications" in the UI or from the "projects" view.

It's a bit robust for super small teams, but still worth it if you have the funding.

Templatized workflow, conflicting resources, time tracking, Reporting. Where all our time is going is amazing to realize and we are already making workflow changes because of the data.

Liquid Planner is very easy to use and manage.

I cannot think of anything that I currently dislike about Liquid Planner.

Liquid Planner helps to keep me accountable for my time and projects.

Anytime we thought we might want to find a new product to suit our needs we spoke to an agent with LP. Every time we contacted the company they showed us different functionality that we could integrate and grow our LP involvement.

A bit expensive for the amount of work we had to put into using it. It's not as intuitive as other products.

Talk to a representative before you discount the product. I guarantee it does what you need, it's just a matter of finding that out.

Our marketing/creative team is using LP as a project management and agile tool.

Easy rescheduling and time estimating (having a range is so much more like life than a set time).

Analytics needs a lot of work. To export timesheets, you have to reset your search constantly instead of saving most-used searches. It should also show totals on the timesheet page so you don't have to export the data just to tally someone's totals for billing.

Also it would be great to get better budgeting tools integrated so you can see (easily) in real time how much of your budget you've used without having to run a separate report. It should be visible to admins/owners somewhere on the projects page or a dashboard widget.

Consider cost carefully.

Working with multiple subs outside the office is easy with LP.

Ability to add many tasks at once. Checklists. Linking Dropbox files. Reporting. Quick overview of the week.

- links are not auto-linked

- editing comments breaks lines

- too slow

- going back in time is difficult (what changes did we make to the product in May 2013?)

- replies from emails include signature images

- no ability to create recurring tasks or tasks that have a fixed time (ex. meeting with a client)

- having to select a project, then going back to select a projet folder

- breadcrumbs (project folder and priority) are not clickable. The arrow buttom isn't as flexible.

- the team I supervise write down their times on paper and transfer the hours to LP at the end of the day. One uses Google calendar to keep track of his time.

- Notes and Brief are hidden. We asks the team to write a checklist "see note" when there's one.

- Mobile app needs to be simplified and do a much better job.

Look into Slack

We are a web developpement agency working with hundreds of clients. We use LP for production planning and communication.

Reports are useful.

I like that you are able to get automated schedules based on people's estimates. Adding the dashboard was great, and I am looking forward to trying the scrum features.

It is not as intuitive as it should be for regular users. So while I have become an expert on how to use the tool, most of the people I manage are still struggling and making mistakes. A lot of them only use "My work" for example, which causes them to lack greater perspective of the projects they're involved in.

And my main pet peeve: it is not possible to export original estimates in any way. Yes, I can set a baseline date, but for 60+ projects that's not very convenient. Also there seem to be no good way to notify me about changes in estimates, even though I follow the whole workspace.

Scheduling. keeping track of budgets and creating estiamtes.

LiquidPlanner appears to have every capability a project manager would need in creating discrete tasks, dependencies, time estimates, and parent categories for task-based, measurable projects. The UI allows for granularity with nests and tree branches of related and contingent factors. It has several layout types and more functions and features than is apparent at first glance.

The very strengths I've noted are perfect for detail-oriented people obsessed with analytics such as project managers but are not so intuitive for employees who are not hard-wired in their brains the same way. Several editors, writers, artists, and software engineers have told me they are challenged when interfacing with LiquidPlanner and understanding and utilizing all its features, since those very powerful features do not resemble their workplace skills and knowledge.

Only provide LiquidPlanner to project managers, finance personnel, and members of business development for forecasting. It is extremely left-brained in UX. It is not a great tool for right-brained creative innovators in writing, art, design, or software development.

I am not in a role at my company in which I plan projects with LiquidPlanner. I am merely required to log my task time in it, so I cannot answer this accurately.

I like the ability to have ranged estimates rather that single point estimates for tasks. There are also robust analytics and dashboard capabilities with new features being added regularly.

It also supports a variety of project management styles, both waterfall and agile, though it is better optimized for agile. It also has a variety of views which are useful across role-types, including a card view, a project view, a list/work view.

The dashboard capacity is not sufficiently robust right now to meet all C-level visibility needs.

The mobile app allows for some time tracking but is not fully featured. It is designed for workers to track time and comment, but is not good for managers, or project plan manipulation. You cannot rearrange tasks, etc, from the mobile app.

LiquidPlanner is good for smaller companies who need an integrated time and project management solution. Probably ideal for software companies or professional services firms since it allows the tracking of billable and non-billable time.

We needed a project management and timekeeping software to allow us to track client-facing and internal project work. It has streamlined timekeeping, and by combining timekeeping with project management, allowed us to keep more project data in a single place

This tool covered everything we needed and more - time tracking, reporting, templates for projects, multiple views, collaboration, visibility into peers and directs work.

Really a great tool, I understand it was quite expensive (~$50/user/month?) - so that seems like an anomaly amongst other seemingly comparable solutions.

Very fully featured, but quite expensive.

Great visibility into time spent on processes. Tracking, reporting to managers, etc. Simple process.

The drop and drag of priorities and the ability to email tasks. the Customer Care team helped resolve our issues for the concerns we had after the purchase of the product

to be honest the program did not quite work the way we needed, this would be a great product for research and design teams.

n/a

The only thing I like is being able to see recent uploads from other users.

It's not intuitive and there's no active calendar activity.

I wish they had an active calendar to place tasks and projects in.

Project managing and prioritizing tasks.

Enables quick view tracking and in depth report analysis.

At times slow over a Virtual private network

Multi device access let’s me do work on the go or on the move. Simple intuitive UI design makes seeing tasks easy. To stay informed.

Resource planning across multiple projects, with the ability to make daily adjustments to priorities. Stop problems before they occur with flagged items.

Reporting is not as flexible as we would like. We have to work around the constraints of the system.

Best/Worst estimate is a powerful tool, particularly with shared resources.

We run over 20 projects at a time, with some resources working on 5 or more projects simultaneously. LP helps us understand when projects are in trouble, a long time ahead. It helps our project managers be more organised. We can react to customer requirements and be better informed and in control.

Straight forward to get started, most actions are easy to take and the display is clear to the user.

The delay between changes and the server catching up is not ideal, group changes and cloning of items in the planner could use some further refinement, simple access breakdowns for people or time ranges would be a plus.

We are using Liquid Planner to manage the various projects being worked on. It allows us to clear express to the teams in the company what priorities are, what progress is being made and when milestones are expected to be hit.

Rich tracking and resource management. Unique dynamic features. Drag-and-drop simplicity. Responsive site.

The product is expensive and there is a big of a steep learning curve.

LiquidPlanner’s knowledge base is easily the best example of a searchable support database I have seen. It is vast, thorough, and the search function works beautifully. I wish other companies had such a well-functioning system: it makes my job easier!

It is really easy to use and user friendly. Reporting is easy also.

There are really not any features that I specifically dislike.

It is an easy to use system that really helps with managing projects and resources.

Organizing resources and gaining enhanced visibility into the ability to meet project timelines.

- The flexibility of LP

- Good summary

- The possibilities with 1 task && more colleagues - not possible to pack in different packages

Webshops / IT

We make webshops. So the whole process we manage in LP

It helps us to plan daily work by sending alerts on project we are allocated day to day. and also warn us of project going off tract

may be some validation is missing for example i can by mistake put 25hr for monday instead of typing 2.5 this is not validated ( <24hr )

I am Software engineer i work according to assigned tasks, this has help me organize my work

I like the ease of the views, how you can package things in tasks, and the timeline view. This makes for easy project management and allows you to manage things like scope creep.

There isnt much I dislike. The only thing I can currently think of is not being able to run 2 timers at the same time.

Using a tool like this is really helpful when your doing software development.

Ease of use, the interface is very clean and modern and the learning curve is very small.

Not really anything about the product but it is sometimes difficult to get proper estimates if your team is not consistently making updates.

It's not just about the tool! It's about a culture shift!

Trying to keep projects on time and determine how much time we are sinking into projects.

I like the idea that I can track the jobs from start to finish.

The filter system. It does not include everything I need.

We are solving efficiency problems.

I like the fact that my tasks are listed out and scheduled for me with at least some degree of accuracy. This is much more efficient that with pencil and paper.

Estimating my own time for lengthy projects is not an easy task and is rarely accurate.

This software helps us to organize our tasks by type of task and by priority level.

Tasks can be kept in a project organized by type of task, and then linked in another project used as a sprint.

Tasks can be shared among developers.

Updated information is not immediately displayed, but a button "schedule ready" must be clicked

We use this to record our scrums

The ability to manage a variety of tasks for different clients in one place

The speed at which comments come through (alerts to new comments are often slow to appear in 'my comments')

Collaborative project management