Ganttic Software

Pros

This is a good tool if your organization is very GANT-heavy, but as agile methodology teaches, gant charts are often inaccurate, which is something that has been proven in practice in my organization.

Cons

Very specific to a specific sort of development style. I sometimes prefer other tools like lucidcharts in order to create gant-style workflows.

Pros

Covers most required resource planning features. Graphic view. Percentage entry of effort estimate.

Cons

The ease of use can improve especially data entry method not as intuitive to me. For example, change end date usually results in entire booking shifting due to the page's tendency to keep fixed duration.

Unified view of our resource contention, across multiple programmes of work.

Pros

Easy to use, intuitive to navigate. Great that it's cloud based, making it easy to collaborate and zero setup time. Ability to add custom fields is really helpful.

Cons

Some views don't allow reallocation of resources. Can't lock a date range when flicking between different views (they all start with a different range)

Move on from an excel sheet

Pros

- Good customer support
- Good for scheduling resources
- Customs reports
- Custom charts
- Unlimited users
- Access profiled users

Cons

- No team communications
- No file attachment feature for resource sheet
- No batch operations
- Some UX bugs

It is a placeholder for resourcing until we get a better tool. Need something more powerful.

Pros

Ganttic is an online tool that can be accessed from any device with an up-to-date browser. It is easy to administrate.

Cons

It is clunky and slow and I find my users do not engage with the tool because they find it too hard and slow to use. They don't have time.

Pros

A lot of options to customize the system. Very fast answer from support. Fast response times on whole application and very good windows system.

Cons

Needs to implement graphic Gantt generation and sort options for custom reports. Those are the only improvement issues that i can see right now.

clearer resourcing
all colleagues can edit at the same time

Pros

Like having project tabs
tracking history
easy to view colleagues work or by teams
Can also specify non working times such as lunchtime
Can also have tabs for departments

Cons

Needs a darker background as can sometimes be a bit intense on the eyes
Needs more colours
Can often be a bit glitchy
The filter system doesnt work
The saved button has been removed

I prefere no to provide details here.

Pros

Easy to use and access, several users on the same process, excelent to share schedulling. Easy to add resources and filters, new users are easily added as well. Edition rights are very customizable for every user.

Cons

Still trying to master the views specially when you have long list of resources and change the date, you have to scroll down again to find the resource you are interested on.

Visibility about resource situation across teams.

Pros

Easy to set up and very straight forward licensing. It helped to gain multi-user editing and visibility across the different teams.

Cons

Quite hard to learn initially, making it hard for new users without proper introduction. The requirement to drag'n'drop to create a new entry is counter-intuitive, especially as click and right-click do not trigger any action.

Pros

Easy to get to learn works great. Provides a great visual of how to schedule upcoming tasks very easy to make changes and updates

Pros

I like that fact that it is web-based, easy to use, accommodates customized data and can provide access to all individual resources to update their own schedules. The support team is also very responsive.

Cons

Reports can also have the option for graphs etc. so we can look at group or individual stats at a glance. Currently we can extract the data and have to create pivots or charts on excel.

Easy planning and clear overview of the projects

Pros

Easy data entrance and the filter/search opportunities. I need to get started with the reporting functionality which is easy to use but I need to make my own reports

Cons

This is not clear yet it depends on the further role out within our organisation. We need additional functionality with regards to the use of colours and the options illness, hospital visit etc

Pros

There's a lot of room for customization in this software - so you can create what you need to to suite your needs. Dependencies are an added feature.

Cons

Task colours seem to change pending what calendar view you're looking at.
The filtering at the top can be confusing.
Wish there were templates/samples one could view and assess best approach to take in Ganttic. Leaves so much to the person using it - that examples would help.

Pros

It allows quick entry of time against task and you can also put in % of time. Most applications want exact hours. This tool is great for medium to small size organizations. Its very flexible and doesn't require a lot of up front set up.

Cons

Exporting of reports. It should export the fields across, one row for each record so that its easy to analyze the data in Excel.

visually manage my team's time

Pros

I have been using Ganttic for a couple of years, and despite my that organisation has forced us to use another tool, I went back to it to me going for my team easily.

Pros

It's obviously made with a real project manager in mind. Covers just about every use-case scenario one would ever need in an agile environment.

Cons

In my experience with it, there wasn't an option to create tasks within a project that were internal/not client-facing.

Able to schedule resources easily and effectively.

Pros

Really like how easy it is to see the calendar layout and change what I'm looking at - weeks to months, etc.

Cons

Setting timing on tasks can get confusing, times get overwritten depending on your order of clicks. For example if want a task to only take up part of a day, I want the task to show over the course of the full day, but the duration of the task may only be 4 hours. To get these settings to 'stick' sometimes takes a couple tries.

I'm able to easily see where my team is and what they have going on over the next few weeks. It is very helpful.

Pros

The various views is nice. The simplicity of the software is great too. It was very easy to learn.

Cons

I wish I could add multiple resources to the same task instead of adding the same task for everyone.

Reduction of communication noise. Easy way to work on a central version of resource schedule.

Pros

We use Ganttic to schedule resources for number of projects (customer site visits). Its super easy to define the projects and add resources. Tool allows you to quickly get things going. Keeping the resource schedule information and ability to share it with customer brought the management of this area to next level. Lot less email/communicator noise.
Also I am very happy with the customer support - they are very responsive and always willing to help.

Cons

Only two - mobile application is not so easy and flexible and there is no UNDO function. Once you delete something you have to do it again or contact support to get it from backup (it works, tested!).

flexibility

Pros

We switched to ganttic from another software and got all the features we were looking for at a lower monthly cost.

Cons

After scheduling a "team" of people, it's a lot of work to break them up into smaller teams. Example, we scheduled a group of 5 for an 8 week project and then had to break that week up to stagger breaks. We had to do a lot of work in ganttic to make that happen.