Businessmap

Avantages

The visualisation and linking of work. Then the blockers highlighted for the conversation

Inconvénients

Resource management and the timeline need a bit of work

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

To complex for teams not working on products

Avantages

Easy to use and define workflow/rules
Statistics about solved issues
Great customer care

Inconvénients

Missing some stast, but they are on the list :)

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

Easy to use and deal projects with, easy to follow tasks execution/status, clear and easy to follow communication. Everything is well visualized.

Inconvénients

Nothing I can think of at the moment, probably budgets can not be well tracked, but that is not the main concern of this particular product anyway.

Avantages

The pop up for defining the card attributes is nice.

Inconvénients

The cards are by ID number, something every database hides. The more important pieces of information are buried. Difficult to associate the kanban board with the actual workload. The construction of a multi swim lane workflow just isn't there. Product needs to consider a different method to visualize work.
They need to rework their card concept.

Avantages

Linking various boards together and updating status across different boards

Inconvénients

having multiple boards with cards linked accross all boards is at the beginning a bit overwhelming... but you get used to it in very fast time... (and internal guidelines help a lot)

Avantages

This kanban solution is extremely powerful due to the simple intuitive interface design and the ability to quickly customize it to your work. It has a rich set of features and powerful integration. My favorites are Simple Cards Design, Easy Customization, powerful metrics, flexibility, and scalable views. It provides extreme power without complexity!

Inconvénients

Business Rules and extremely powerful but could be more accessible.

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

Straightforward and user-friendly. The information about most of the features I need are all available online. The support responds on time and follow up with me until solution is achieved. The specialist we have in connection with is also insightful and ready to help. We get reasonable advice and commendable suggestions. The features evolve overtime and my observations are taken always into consideration. We have just renewed our subscription and I tell you, most of I need even about renewal or payment is available online.

Inconvénients

Extracting more than 5k data result which, by workaround, advised by support was resolved.
Analytics in the beginning which I also get to understand after board and users mature overtime.

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

Kanbanize es la más potente y amigable solución en el mercado para gestionar tareas usando los principios Kanban. Su interfaz es limpia, sumamente intuitiva e incluye algunas automatizaciones que productos similares no tienen con lo cual se facilita el seguimiento. Así mismo, es el único que permite combinar en una misma vista, Iniciativas en modo Timeline y tableros Kanban asociados cada uno con sus propios flujos de trabajo. Si amas Kanban, ésta es la herramienta que estabas buscando!

Inconvénients

No le veo absolutamente nada en contra hasta el momento.

Avantages

Integrating Kanbanize in to the Business was a fuss free affair due to the magnificent support network that Kanbanize offer. The ease of creating boards, cards, links, etc. combined with the plethora of functionality built in to Kanbanize makes it a very powerful tool.

Inconvénients

Due to the small amount of time that I have used Kanbanize, I have yet to come across anything that I don't like.

Avantages

. The 2 boards view (Management and Team)
. The Top-Down (from Initiative, Portfolio, Project, Team)
. The Bottom-Up (real time update)

Inconvénients

Management of mandatory custom fields in workflow. It can be done, but it is not as straight fwd that it should be

Avantages

Kanbanize is a very complete and feature-rich tool. It allows you to create your own workflow based on your process and immediately view the state of the art. The Kanbanize card is the most complete card I have seen in the various digital tools. The business rules allow you to insert strategic alerts on the board in order to anticipate problems. The Kanbanize Support is excellent: answers always arrive clear, complete and within a few hours.

Inconvénients

Kanbanize is full of features and you need to study it constantly and thoroughly if you want to use it in the best way. In this way it is not so easy to use instantly, but when you learn how to do you forget the difficulties of the first days.
The second point I can come up with is that in filters, Analytics and xls export, colours are mentioned with their codes and this is not so user friendly.
Finally it is not possible to exclude non-working days from the analytic calculations.

Avantages

Board design is easy, has exactly what I need and nothing of what I don't need.

Inconvénients

Not great on mobile devices, though I typically don't need to use it on mobile.

Avantages

Comprehensive modeling capabilities make it possible to express a multitude of different service workflows. Analytic capabilities are best in class. With Business Rules (automated event-based actions) advanced automation is possible, reducing administrative overhead and incidental complexity. Comprehensive API allows development of 3rd party tool integration.

Inconvénients

Learning curve can be intimidating given the amount of options and customization. UI can be somewhat unintuitive at times.

Avantages

ease of use and great way to track work and visualize all tasks...very customizable and adaptable for our processes

Inconvénients

portfolio lane is not really robust yet like standard lanes

Avantages

What i like most is that it enables the manager to assign duties to the different teams, and allows the workers to work more effectivetely.

Inconvénients

Apply solutions for short projects, to have the efectivity as high as in the big projects.

Avantages

Easy to use, power Kanban and API integration.

Inconvénients

Filter function could be better, sometime find hard filter task!

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

Avantages

Ease of use, helpful support staff, set of videos for features, robust kanban experience

Inconvénients

Nothing. As issues arise the support team has done an excellent job at addressing them and potentially fixing them within the application

Avantages

The organizing ability of this software is phenomenal! The lanes and the columns are highly customisable and can be organised to custom-suit the project. Each ticket can be colour-coded so one can immediately see their distribution. It is also great to be able to link tickets.

Inconvénients

It is a very complex software, and without proper training, one will not be able to utilise its full potential.

Avantages

I like most the way that kanbanize has been designed. Friendly, Effective and Efficient UX/UI.
Excellent features for tracking portfolio and projects(timelines, initiatives,tasks).
Card details and custom fields.
Business Rule is the robust feature, it's adaptive easy to use and learn.
Metrics and measurements features contains everything.
Integration with all known tools.
BEST support ever !!!

Inconvénients

We apply kanban in nonIT department where there are many categories and we forced to use the swimlanes as "big categories" in order to cluster our work instead of time COS.
I would like to see the dependencies between different swimlanes in another visual view. I don't have something specific but it's not easy to distinct some dependencies when they lie on different swimlanes

Avantages

Visualise all work, thereby unhiding even small requests.
Supports our agile work methodology.
Powerful analytics.

Inconvénients

Importing tasks from a spreadsheet seems too technical for business users.

Avantages

The most interesting feature for my use, as a manager is the broad view, for many boards, simultaneously. This helps identifying bottlenecks and the flow of value.

Inconvénients

Prioritization of backlog is a not an easy task, as

Avantages

Most of Kanban practices are implemented, allowing a true organization maturity evolution

Inconvénients

Search all fields on the card. To do list based on the sub-tasks.

Avantages

Kanbanize makes doing multiple types of work with 3 different workflows by one team, on one board so easy. You would need 3 boards in Jira and it is impossible! By contrast, Kanbanize is sooo easy to use, and you don’t need an IT degree to set it up. Our marketing teams use it too.

Inconvénients

Would love to see something no other software does like multi-team prioritisation and estimated cycle time. (Oh, but they’re working on that soon to release too!)
Wish they put their knowledge base and help videos in the one place.

Avantages

The vast customization of the visual workflow couple and the scaling of portfolio kanban make Kanbanize incredible value for the cost. this coupled with the top notch Customer Service and Support that lives at the Lean-Agile heart of the company.

Inconvénients

Most integrations are done via 3rd party software like Make or Zapier. Some would consider this a Con so I have included it here. I personally appreciate that Kanbanize chooses to remain focused on valuable features for customers over maintaining a suite of integrations that can already be done by other tools.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira et Asana

Avantages

It's very simple to use en helpt visualize
and prioritize the work of your team/company

Inconvénients

One overview overall of my one cards...

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Better visuals, more options to customize and more options for measuring time

Avantages

Helps you structure your workflow and it's super handy when you want to boost quality but decrease time. It makes you the most efficient you can be with the resources at hand. Great for enterprise teams! Great for small teams! Works well applied to all fields.

Inconvénients

It's not free but it's worth it.

Avantages

Built in CFD, aging, built in blockers and infinitely configurable to meet any flow.

Inconvénients

There's really nothing, with every release the product gets better.

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

It was not as configurable and the rules were buried deep in the system.

Logiciel antérieur 

Planview AgilePlace

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Trello is too simple and there is no concept of "In progress" and "Done" as sub states.

Avantages

Visualization, ease of use, metrics and features

Inconvénients

Nothing so that I have notices so far. It works great for me.

Avantages

This tool It Fit4Kanban. I like the usability and its User Experience.

Inconvénients

Business rules its amazing tool for automatising some stuffs in your board.

Avantages

-Ease of use
-Quick Implementation
-Easy to Train the Users On
-Immediate Benefits Realized by the Users
-Visualization of Work
-Major Monthly Product Updates

Inconvénients

I cannot pinpoint anything at the moment.

Avantages

Kanbanize is made for Kanban. This becomes very clear when you have had to use other SW that does not really support visualization and flexibility to the extent that you would like. Kanbanize is really easy to use and you can adjust your boards so they fit the specific contexts that you are working in. Making workflows that fit your situation is very simple, just as playing with colors, working with different types of blockers and sticky notes are built in.
There are a lot of online tutorials that can help you get started and can give you answers to probably any question you may have.

Inconvénients

The analytics part require that you take a deeper look into what you want to measure and how you interpret the reports. But I guess that is a 'must' anyway if you want to know the progress of your team or organization

Avantages

- A disposição e poder de alterar os layouts e personalização que o mesmo proporciona diferente de outras ferramentas.

Inconvénients

O layout acaba sendo uma pouco mais rústico em relação as outras ferramentas.Integração com ouras ferramentas

Avantages

This help to put the plan, roadmap, track it, portfolio view of the projects, and more on.

Inconvénients

Though Kanbanize helps in multiple project management systems, but it is very strongly related to Kanban model. It would be difficult to change the practices to the whole organisation, it would be a great help if this tool can have a bit more customisation on using along with other agile practices like Scrum / XP.

Avantages

Support team & features not offered by other non-technology-teams-oriented tools (like Trello, Monday, etc)

Inconvénients

Part of the pricing related to the # of business rules

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

Not fulfilling the basic requirements

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

Easy of use (for somebody far from IT), flexibility (to adapt to fulfill specific team requirements) & possibility to influence the tool development team backlog and roadmap as a customer

Avantages

Dipendenze e creazione di relazioni tra iniziative e task sottostanti permette di misurare quello che e' di valore ad ogni livello. La configurabilit' delle Regole aiuta tantissimo nell'adeguare allo strumento al flusso reale senza invece essere costretti a fare il contrario

Inconvénients

Per chi come me viene da trello si e' abituato ad avere le card con una anteprima di una delle immagini allegate. Aiuta tantissimo a focalizzarsi su una card. Consiglio di lavorare proprio sulla grafica per renderla piu' piacevole.

Avantages

It's fully customizable which is essential for fitting it in into our company workflow.

Inconvénients

No such thing. We do use Kanbanize on daily basis and we love it.

Avantages

Ease of use, filter functionality. I can plan my week in advance then filter out the noise and stay focused.

Inconvénients

The linking of tickets to other tickets needs a little bit of work. You have to create a ticket first then go back and link it.

Avantages

The possibility to customize the boards and workflows

Inconvénients

There isn't any specific topic which I don't like.

Avantages

Does what the name promises, Kanbanize is a good system for kanbans. The UI is very clear and the overall administration does not poses particular issues. The app can be applied to different domains, from software development to marketing.

Inconvénients

Connection to the Kanbanize web site is not secure, it's HTTP only, not HTTP/S and this generates a number of warnings on modern browsers. The login and application access is then in HTTP/S so there is no real security threat. Integrations is an area where the team should invest in, only Zapier and Trello are supported.

Avantages

So flexible! It's the Swiss army knife of tools, the easiest I've ever seen for designing boards/workflows, very intuitive.

I like synchronizing data automatically across cards, which enables work on one card to be shared across multiple boards. I've not seen this capability on any other tool I've used.

Support is top notch also, my requests are answered quickly and in-depth.

Inconvénients

With flexibility can come overwhelm of choices. Trying to find the right place to configure something isn't always intuitive.

Alternatives envisagées 

Planview AgilePlace

Avantages

Agile analytics, related boards, custom fields, overall design, high flexibility

Inconvénients

Should be a pricing model for smaller groups (below 5)

Avantages

We needed a tool that allows visualization of Flight Levels (by Klaus Leopold) and it really lived to our expectations. Upfront setup is minimal and even non-tech savy clients can start using basic features after few hours of training.

Inconvénients

Well there is always room for improvement but so far I haven't found something that is annoying.

Avantages

The software provides horizontal swim lanes, which many of the Kanban based products did have. I also like the flexible licensing models.

Inconvénients

I think the biggest drawback is that you cannot convert the subtasks into individual cards and cannot assign due dates to subtasks.

Avantages

Flexibility in setting up individual workflows. Direct connection between Initiatives and Day-to-Day work. Creation of individual card design. Sub-columns to indicate pull signals. Easily doing recurring work.

Inconvénients

Setting up individual backgrounds to create an overall experience that is less stressful for the eyes - not easy.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira

Pourquoi choisir Businessmap 

Evaluating software to recommend to our clients - additionally use for smaller in-house-projects.

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à Businessmap

More insights being a Kanban Trainer (knowing what to look for in properly supporting Kanban)