Forecast – Bewertungsseite 2

Vorteile

I can easily see my upcoming and past cards, deadlines, project timelines, milestone plans, team members.
I can easily change the status of the card from to-dos to in-progress to Done.

Nachteile

It's not very easy to use and has a long learning curve.

Vorteile

Timesheets are beautifully layed out, easy to add to (even from within tasks) and easy to add notes to specific tasks.

Predictive tasks when adding to timesheets is great.
Filters on project pages to see only your tasks, or only certain tasks filtered by tags is neat.

Nice integrations and full REST API is a nice addition. have yet to experiment with it, but could hold some awesome potential for custom integrations.

Nachteile

Because it is still a heavily developing application the UI changes every so often so you have to re-familiarise yourself with how it works.

Vorteile

This software automates a lot of things in our planning / controlling / time reporting.

If there are ever any problems, the outstanding customer support will gladly help out.

Nachteile

The API could you an OpenAPI / Swagger specification to make integrations slightly easier.

Vorteile

With other PM type software, they can be clunky and difficult to use. I like how Forecast is intuitive, fast and most importantly, fun to use. When completing tasks, you get an avatar popping up telling you great job which is fund.

Nachteile

There are a few bugs that need to be worked out with Gitlab syncing tasks to Forecast. More importantly, Gitlab uses markdown which Forecast would sometimes strip when it would sync a task.

Vorteile

Ease of use and clear overviews.

The design is very clean and the UX is topnotch.

Nachteile

It is a bit fixated on certain aspects.
Instead of being focused on projects,
a focus on clients would be nice as an alternaive.

This is not a minus if all your work is project-based.

Vorteile

It has features that I couldn't find in any other service. Such as being able to manage reasorces across multiple projects, but not just by task also in high level

Nachteile

Not fully "baked" yet. A lot of small bugs and missing some small nice to have features

Vorteile

Easy to manage teams and members. Intuitive design of scheduling tool makes it easy to allocate team members to projects. Integration via API with our other systems seems to be working well. Responsive support that seem to take questions and suggestions and use them to improve new iterations of the product. Timesheets are simple to use and easy to check.

Nachteile

New design features, especially the last round, can drop out of the blue and be quite jarring when faced with them the first time. But at least they're committed to improving the product.
Building reports can at times be less than intuitive.

Vorteile

Powerful reporting - easy to see where projects are over/under spending
Fantastic UX with many control points throughout the software
Provides a top level view of available resources per staff member
Allows both retainer and project based scheduling
Best in industry customer support

Nachteile

Perhaps a little difficult to grasp initially, however this is offset with excellent one-to-one customer support
Project / Task timer interface needs a little improvement

Vorteile

It allows me to schedule my work programme and see when my time is fully allocated for months in advance. It shows future periods when I could accept more work from clients.

Nachteile

I don't have any concerns. Note it takes some time to set up each persons programme (perhaps up to half a day), it is worth doing this properly as then the tracking of projects will be more informative.

Vorteile

The integration of task tracking, time tracking, and resource allocation.

Nachteile

The budget pages are a bit confusing and it's a bit tedious to update task and time entries. It's quite expensive for a large team.

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Vorteile

Forecast's easy to use interface and technology allows me to track the progress of my company's projects and forecast for the future. The customer service is also extremely quick to reply and answer any questions.

Nachteile

It would be great to have the ability to create my own reporting within forecast. Although there are a lot of reporting features, there a few that my company needs. Just a few more options would be helpful.

Vorteile

Easy to enter hours against project/tickets and add comments all from the timesheet page.

Nachteile

1) It can be a chore to track down a specific ticket. I input the number in the search box and Bobo the Bear cannot find anything. Instead I need to slog through projects trying to see where it is.
2) Bobo the Bear. I'm old enough to remember Clippy. Why bring him back, just under a new name?

Vorteile

Easy to use, intuitive, fantastic customer service.

Nachteile

Some display issues at times, have had some challenges with time entry (data disappeared).

Vorteile

The ease of use to create tasks, manage hours spent on projects and have a centralized way to cast hours.

Nachteile

Some tools apparently have the same functionality and its not easy (as the other features) to design sprints and have visibility of them.

Vorteile

Good easy to understand visuals with plenty of colour ques. Easy to manipulate timeframes and shuffle tasks with only a few mouse clicks.

Nachteile

Took a little bit of playing around to figure out the best way to use it for me. Multiple different ways of doing the same thing was a little daunting at first but now I've figured out the way I like to work it.

Vorteile

Simple, straightforward and easy to implement. Intuitive, thoughtful layout and architecture that is seamless and easy to use. No need for timely project management investment or to rework agency structure to fit the tool. A perfect solution.

Nachteile

Could be opportunity to improve UX for project or task briefing similar to that of Monday.com. But it's not a huge issue. For non-billable time. On the Budget section for projects, it would be nice if there could be totals for each Milestone across the lifespan of the project instead of a lump total. This would improve the experience for us.

Vorteile

- General overview of all your projects
- Easy to follow up on all your tasks for each project
- Collaboration tool
- Allows you to review the work load of all your team members and assign tasks for each project.

Nachteile

- Difficulty to download a full report or export the progress of each project for a presentation

Vorteile

Ease of use for entering time. Information is easily accessible.

Nachteile

Nothing comes to my mind, except maybe improving the "Clock" feature, as I tend to forget it's running (maybe leveraging desktop notifications would help).

Vorteile

Forecast is really good to keep a planning on tracks and to have a view of your costs during the project.

Nachteile

With Forecast, you need to be very organized and the software is challenging because you can't start if you don't know what you are doing.

Vorteile

The way the data is displayed is quite intuitive, the timelines, hours, pending hours and etc. I like how my upcoming tasks are shown on the dashboard with colour coding and also highlights due tasks.

Nachteile

The learning curve is very steep, even though I am tech savvy person, I found it difficult to begin with. I feel it has too many ways of achieveing the same outcome.

Vorteile

Organization in cards with progress and tables

Nachteile

unutil things to work, with a lot of options unutils

Vorteile

As an engineer there is nothing more rewarding than tracking my time. Forecast allows me to do that in a fun and easy way.

Nachteile

I don't get to use it enough - Forecast is the best application ever made!

Vorteile

I have been a TFS user for years and never found a better management tool until I found Forecast. It is the clearest tool on the market so far, easy to use, full of functionalities. There's a lot o pros to it:

- highly customizable
-the time recording is amazing
-comments and subtasks on cards are awesome
-you can also tag other members of the team if you want them to read something

Nachteile

-when i record time, the record pop up is too small for the tasks names in the select
-i'd like a clearer way to mark done subtasks rather than a checkbox

Vorteile

Precise great tool for the admin work and work flow.

Nachteile

Software should be faster and visually better.

Vorteile

This easy-to-use tool makes the project team incorporate very quickly to use the software and share detailed information about tasks and activities in a very clear way during project lifecycle.

Nachteile

So far I have not had problems with the tool

Vorteile

Forecast enhances the project management experience. It is helpful to have engineers see and enter time on their own projects.

Nachteile

The website is virtually unusable for anyone who is visually impaired and uses screen reading software. There is little to no keyboard access and the site does not follow accessibility standards.

Vorteile

Timeline showing progress of all projects in one screen;
Kanban board showing project tasks;
To-do list;
Compare budget and expense.

Nachteile

Collaborator cannot see "Scoping" page;
Cannot relate parent task with sub-tasks which have been split to new task;
Cannot define Project Stage by user;
Same set of Labels are commonly used in different fields, causing users hard to choose, and the labels become meaningless.

Vorteile

Innovative software that looks like it was designed by project/product managers.

Nachteile

Feels rather new. Some gitches and bugs being worked out with implementations on the way. This should get better over time

Vorteile

The variety of features. You can both schedule and plan on a high level and also dive down to the little things.

Nachteile

Unfortunately, there are still quite a lot of bugs and bulkiness.
I think the feature that is missing the most is being able to see on the scheduler that the resource was already allocated with tasks in the projects.

Vorteile

Time-tracking, project-management and scheduling. Forecast is great for it!

Nachteile

We haven't found anything wrong about Forecast yet!

Vorteile

It is really easy to use and to get the hang of it. After setting up a full project or using it for a month you can practically become an expert.

Nachteile

The reporting is a bit lacking. Some improvements could be made here where you can use time filters to filter more on the graphs and charts opposed to looking at the full project. THis is one of our needs as we have clients on a "Support Contract" basis so the project will always be ongoing.

Vorteile

The flexibility for each team member to take ownership of their schedule. And the regular updates for features, and response from the support team.

Nachteile

Missing some features we would like to see such as the time entry exporting. But the team are very responsive to feature requests.