Businessmap

Avantages

It's very flexible and mighty and has good automatization. Also the pricing is reasonable.

Inconvénients

Biggest Bummer: NO MOBILE INTEGRATION and their Product Manager tells that it won't come at all. As a CTO I am constantly considering migrating to something else. Can't just use the tool on the go.
Also its user interface has a lot of innecessary whitespace and no intuitive list view. To use lists you need to open modals and filter. A bit strange.

Avantages

User friendly for reality analysis and avoid assumption,

Inconvénients

I recommend the tool it is good to monitoring work

Avantages

- The software is extremely flexible and supports almost any use-case
- It is super easy for people to get started (even if they have never used Kanban before or are not in IT)
- It is not just another Kanban tool and right from the start it is clear how Kanbanize (the company) is trying to change the way we run our businesses (e.g. by supporting and evangelising Portfolio Kanban)
- The reporting engine is top-notch and provides both overview and many drill-down opportunities

Inconvénients

- Individuals often are role players on multiple boards. Currently there is no easy way to show all tasks assigned to an individual and to properly prioritise daily workload.
- No integration with their personal Kanban tool flow-e exists at the moment

Avantages

The features that I treasure the most speak to analytics that guide project managers to be able to do earned value management. This will answer the project sponsors concerns with adequate detail and guide on a proceed or kill a project.

Inconvénients

The way you have to memorize steps can be confusing

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

System capabilities were limited

Logiciel antérieur 

JIRA Service Management

Avantages

The ability to understand the Portfolio Mananagement in real time excecution. Plus the leading kpis that help us to understand our bottlenecks and were we should improve to increase throughput.

Inconvénients

A desired feature would be the integration with online boards, like MIRO.

Avantages

One of the thing that I liked most of Kanbanize is its simplicity and friendly way to use it. You don't need any (or almost any) help to start creating their Kanban boards. Indeed, it is so intuitive to build new swim lames and cards.
Furthermore, Kanbanize always notify me about the new features as soon as they released them.

Inconvénients

Kanbanize can add more metrics but my point of view is biased about helping managers to understand very well the power of using Lean metrics.

Avantages

Kanbanize is a simple to use, nice to experience, friendly to interact software to realize quickly and in an effective way a REAL kanban board. It has a lot of features and it is able to scale in enterprise, without becoming difficult for a small business or for a single user on personal projects. The support is friendly and always asking for feedbacks from users, to continuously improve the product.

Inconvénients

Missing some integrations (mail clients, ifttt, integromat...)

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

kanbanize is more focalized on kanban

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

i find it more "entrerprise" focused

Avantages

Possiblidade de gerenciar toda a empresa, desde sua estratégia, indicadores estratégicos, projetos, portfólio até fluxos de trabalho do dia-a-dia de todos os departamentos da empresa e, ainda, integrar e conectar departamentos.

Inconvénients

A estrutura dos cards ainda poderia ser pensada para formulários mais elaborados. Atualmente temos a opção de campos personalizados, mas estes são "secundários" dentro dos cards e não recebem muito destaque. Em processos administrativos a visão de formulários é mais importante do que um grande campo de texto, que é o formato atual dos cards.

Alternatives envisagées 

ClickUp, Notion et Smartsheet

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

Businessmap oferece uma abordagem mais escalável, com capacidade de gestão organizacional e não apenas em nível de time. Análise avançadas de métricas são funcionalidades nativas da ferramentas e não há nessidade de plugins ou ferramentas auxiliares. Permite fazer a gestão de projetos orientados a fluxo e não apenas baseadas em gráficos de gantt como é o caso do MS Project.

Logiciel antérieur 

Jira, Trello et Microsoft Project

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Embora as ferramentas citadas sejam mais abrangentes em termos de funcionalidades: gestão de documentos, criação de formulários, etc. o Businessmap oferece maior capacidade de gestão de fluxo em nível organizacional e oferece maiores capacidades de análise de indicadores.

Avantages

Businessmap é uma ferramenta fácil, prática e que te ajuda a organizar os diversos aspectos da empresa, desde a operação até a estratégia.

Inconvénients

Gostaria que fosse possível alterar a logo da empresa, e ocultar campos padrão.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira, Trello, monday.com et Asana

Logiciel antérieur 

Jira

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Por que é a mais completa e a única que de fato serve para toda a empresa.

Avantages

Clareza no board, cards e facilidade em manuseio

Inconvénients

Ainda não encontrei sobre algum controle pra Scrum, adicionar apps e fazer filtros não está ainda claro de como fazer. Não estou entendendo como gerar relatórios na página de controle. Ainda estou aprendendo como enxergar as dependências.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Parceria e Necessidade de aprender para emprego atual.

Avantages

Businessmap offers the customizations that we need in our department to stay
organized, prioritize work, and track how our projects are driving the company's
objectives. The timeline/calendar view allows us to visualize all projects we are working
on and track their progress all in one place.

Inconvénients

I haven’t yet had any bad experiences using Businessmap.

Avantages

Where many workflow and Kanban Tools only take care of very simplistic workflows and any changes need to be made by an administrator, Kanbanize is highly flexible and user friendly and extremely powerful to map and track multi-level workflows and projects.Additional to the features, software support is critical and here the team at Kanbanize excels with a 90%+ resolution rate within the same business day.

Inconvénients

Many people do not realise that "a fool with a tool is still just a fool". Kanbanize looks very simple to implement and is very user friendly, but to really reap the benefits of a Digital- or Agile Transformation or any process improvement, it is imperative that one digs a lot deeper into the underlying organisational setup and workings.

Avantages

Kanbanize is easy to work with and helps a lot with setting up an agile method for internal workflows.The workflow is intuitive, and it will help you with organizing your projects, tasks, priorities, etc.The tool is flexible enough so you can incorporate it into your daily workflow without any problems if you are a small company.The interface looks modern and is really intuitive!

Inconvénients

It might not be ideal for bigger companies.

Avantages

Kanbanize has amazing features. It's a very intuitive front end, it nicely visualizes complex projects and processes, is highly customizable, allows easy work-delegation across different hierarchies and teams, provides just the right amount of information needed to drive management focus and delivers meaningful, again highly customizable, data to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
We chose it because it serves every need a large organisation might have, from small agile teams, via complex process flows to NPI projects with hundreds of people involved.
The best of all features are the business rules though; with that the admnistration burden which we experienced as the No 1 reason for resistance is reduced to a minimum and the automation also helps the standardization of how work is executed and accelerates the engagement of all involved parties.
And the best quality is the Kanbanize team itself, they are not only highly customer-oriented, but they realease new features on a monthly basis and evolve much faster (and robust) than any competitor.

Inconvénients

The only point I can come up with is that it would be nice if we could fully hide swim lanes that are currently not of interest, like it can be done in excel.

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

1. Financial Reasons 2. Functionalities 3. Speed of Development (frequency of new releases)

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

We had a list of over 100 requirements incl. Customer experience (look and feel), features, integrations and security and Kanbanize scored the highest and were the personell fully supportive and transparent - the kind that one would liek to work with over many years.

Avantages

I primarily liked that the board does everything you need for a variety of situations. Many online kanban boards have some kind of limitation that makes them less than ideal, like no swim lanes or no ability to have subcolumns with a common WIP limit. Kanbanize is flexible enough to cover every situation.

The "initiatives" layer of the board was not something we were looking for originally but came to appreciate. Usually, setting something like that up requires some careful board nesting and coordination, but Kanbanize does it automatically. If you want more granularity, the built-in initiatives feature may not be enough, but it's good enough to cover most usage scenarios.

The metrics are the same as the ones we keep, manually, so being able to automatically generate those is great.

Inconvénients

The flexibility does take a little time to get used to because so much is offered, but there is an extensive knowledge base. There is also only a limited ability to change a card's historical data, like time spent in various columns, but a lot of online kanban software is like that as well. Also, you get what you pay for, and although I think Kanbanize is the best product out there, it's also one of the more expensive options. Not as expensive as some, but still near the top.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira, Planview AgilePlace, Trello, Kanban Tool et KanbanFlow

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Mainly, all the other products were missing one or more key things we needed to handle our usage. Some of them wouldn't let you do subcolumns. Some would, but they couldn't share a WIP limit. Some wouldn't let you do swim lanes. Etc.

Avantages

I really like the features provided by Kanbanize to fit the Kanban systems I designed. The application is simple and to the point.

Inconvénients

The charts, the cards' usability, and the lack of shortcuts really make it hard to use the application. Also, there is no mobile application.

Avantages

Kanbanize is a very flexible tool set that allows us to clearly map out specific workflows for our clients. Clients love it because they can see and update the status of all of their work within their specific workflow not a workflow imposed on them by a software package.

We also like the flexibility of the cards made possible by custom fields, attachments, images and so on.

Inconvénients

Kanbanize is very feature rich. When users initially get on the platform, they can suffer some intimidation. However, Kanbanize is so easy to use and so well thought out, it's amazing to watch people work with it for the first time. Within hours and even minutes in some cases, our clients are moving through the boards and managing their work, all while having lots of fun!

Avantages

I most like its ease of use; breadth of features; analytics; portfolio kanban; regular improvements; excellent support; integration capabilities

Inconvénients

I have not found anything particularly unlikable

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira et Trello

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

I wanted a product that enabled good management according to the complete Kanban method, rather than a trivial product that focused only on visualization and automation of tasks.

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Kanbanize provides extensive features enabling you to truly analyze, manage and optimize the flow of work. This is the real reason for using the kanban method. Other tools completely lack the analytics and the portfolio capabilities that are built in to Kanbanize, or they require complicated integrations that you have to design and implement yourself to achieve similar goals.

Avantages

Great set of features. Full support for any Kanban scenario (both IT and non-IT).
Very useful integration API (REST).
The tool itself and integration API are very stable and bugless.
There is very interesting mechanism for sharing information with 3-rd party stakeholders. E.g. use to share project status with a final client.
Really good support (both technical and commercial)

Inconvénients

Pricing for small teams could be improved

Avantages

Very intuitive to use (but beware, there is much more under the hood than meets the eye at first).
A powerful business tool and awesomely responsive support team.

Inconvénients

As with any software, there are areas where the functionality does not meet our needs, but the benefits far outweigh the negative areas. To name two limitations that come to mind:
- The automation is very powerful, but there are not too many options and one cannot really start building advanced logic.
- There also is no native link to external reporting tools, but there is a work-around to export an advanced query to Excel and then use that as source.

Avantages

The way you can start exactly where you are implementing the reality of your processes and business, and how capable is the software to adapt your experimentation journey through flexible board design and automated rules and policies. The portfolio and initiatives management is a very great asset too.

Inconvénients

The way you need to add a second asignee through customized fields in order to handle different people in the same card. Not a good UX. Not easy or intuitive for clients.

Alternatives envisagées 

Planview AgilePlace

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Clean interface, automation in policies and portfolio management.

Avantages

It's very easy to use, much easier then similar platforms, both on desktop and mobile app

Inconvénients

Almost nothing. Maybe the mobile app and general colors could be more sexy and attractive.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira et monday.com

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

very easy and fast. Kanbanize is very intuitive.

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

easy use and fast start to track tasks

Avantages

The flexibility to configure the workspaces, boards, workflows, cards and everything else is brilliant because it allows us to adapt to meet our specific processes and needs. The ability to create relationships between boards and between cards allows visibility and traceability across the organisation.

Inconvénients

It's a really minor point but the way the software interacts with large touch screens varies on different web browsers - sometimes it's hard to drag cards or stickers around but it can be overcome easily by using a mouse.

Avantages

Visualization, notifications, easy to learn and use. As easy to change as a physical Kanban board. Used LeanKit, Digité, Kanbanery and other Kanban tools since 2013 and Kanbanize is the best

Inconvénients

Analytics module, difficult to interpret depending on cards done and archived. Also is expensive. No clear rules around archived and done cards (is confusing). Business Rules engine could be easier to set up and less expensive, for example with SLAs.

Avantages

User interface is intuitive and easy to use. Features continue to grow with each months release putting it ahead of their competitors for usability. Helps orgs rise up the Kanban Maturity Model. Their support group is second to none, responding quickly and effectively no matter the issue. When new features have been requested, they always seem to show up within the next two monthly releases.

Inconvénients

Easiest user interface in the market space