teamdeck

Avantages

It helps to track the time I've been doing a task for a project, and have some sort of idea of the time is taking on the tasks and projects.

You can track time by projects which is cool.

You can create reports of the time spend by projects on your team.

Inconvénients

It does not have a user idle function which stops automatically if you leave your desktop, it's not something that bad, you just have to be careful of stoping the time tracker when you leave you computer for a moment.
This will be good or bad depends on the honestly of the team you manage as admin.

Avantages

Calendar is really good, where I can see everyone's allocations, leaves (sick/casual/annual), availability and time spent in a very intuitive way. I did however had to get on boarded on the different sections like allocations/leaves/ and time worked, those icons are very small and weren't self explanatory in calendar view.

Inconvénients

I dread the reports section, because I have seen it provide incorrect numbers. Also, I don't find it easy to use and easily customisable.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à teamdeck

Avantages

It has a fantastic calendar feature, and the time tracking system lets you keep an eye on the progress of your team for a project. You can view and analyse how much time is spent on different tasks and how to better distribute the tasks evenly among the team members. There is also a mobile app so you can view progress even out of office. It also generates report based on the timesheet, although, it leaves a lot to be desired. The pricing is decent compared to other similar software.

Inconvénients

The UX makes it quite hard to navigate. The setup was painful, and the initial onboarding for teams required customer support to explain how the whole system works. The report generated also wasn't very useful. Rather, we had to manually calculate the timing for projects.

Avantages

Teamdeck’s timeslot booking was a standout feature, making it easy to schedule design work and see who’s working on what, which helped with project planning and workload balancing.

Inconvénients

The interface could feel clunky at times, especially for quick updates or navigating multiple projects. It sometimes took extra clicks to get basic information.

Avantages

Timesheets and time tracking feature for Teams is the most useful for me.
Thanks to the time tracking tool, it helps us monitor the performance of our team and compare facts to predictions, allowing us to master everything about the business process. By generating reports based on timelines, we can calculate KPIs we choose, generate financial reports, and more. Teamdeck is a great choice for managing your team's workload and tracking your company's profitability.

Inconvénients

The speed of use is not exactly what I want, sometimes it works slowly.

Avantages

Planning & Tracking features
Flexibility in filters

Inconvénients

Loading all the timetable for all the time - no need for that, it takes time to load and laggs a lot if we use view for the entire team (~50 people). Would be good to display only selected month at least.
Reports can't be exportend in PDF, with a quality layout, that can be showed to our investors.
Teamdeck doesn't show the real time sutiation, you have to refresh the page all the time to see latest updates from colleagues.
The tool sometimes laggs and shows wrong data in report, we have to do triple check before collecting stats and calculate budgets based on timetracking.
Reccuring bookings would also be a great feature (e.g. each week on Monday & Tuesday, etc.)
The timetable is also taking too much space on the screen. Imagine 50 people add 10 tracking objects each day. Scrolling through 500 records + 50 empty spaces for "+" symbol for adding new record is just painful.

Avantages

- Convenient to key in & edit data
- Flexibility in generating report
- I like the tag function

Inconvénients

- The report section is sluggish and require longer time to load data
- The web application is frequently hang when user wanted to key in their data
- Unable to customise the email reminder to sound more friendly to our users

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à teamdeck

Avantages

A great tool that is easy to integrate and suitable for quick onboarding. We have a big organization to onboard, we needed something light and easy to use that everyone will quickly adopt.

Inconvénients

Nothing specific to add, it meets our needs.

Alternatives envisagées 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

I like that it's easy to set up and easy to see where your resources are assigned. The support is great too, very helpful. It has all the features i want from a tool, built in reporting is good too.

Inconvénients

My only real wish is to have an ability to integrate an external reporting tool for more complex reporting.

Avantages

- Easy UX
- Nice reporting but needs a bit of improvements on the UX. Also need to add copy report or something like this. There are also minor bugs, but nothing major. OOTB utilisation calculations are

Inconvénients

They have some work to do on the vacations tracking part. I want to be able to set allowed paid leave per team member and when they take paid leave this should be tracked and deducted from their balance. I can do this with report, but it should be out of the box.
Also, they have to add option for utilisation forecasting because at the moment, the only way to do it is to create an Unknown team member and start planning him on potential projects. For example if you see he is planned 700%, this means , 7 people . So not good on this point, but still manageable.

Avantages

I found reports easy to configure and it is useful to configure custom calculation fields. Also, with available API it’s easy to scrape data and process it in a convenient way. Support and communication are really strong.

Inconvénients

On the side of technical expectations, I’d like to have stability improved. When it comes to functional expectations, the main area for improvements is adding features to let project managers track projects with the TD.

Avantages

Easy set-up, low entry barriers as you have two different resource/users types, public reports.

Inconvénients

UX and some of the frequent operations could be improved.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à teamdeck

Avantages

I like most, how I can have a quick view of my whole team

Inconvénients

- New view (I don't like, neither compact one)
- Sometimes rows collapse and you can't see information
- Slow

Avantages

I liked that is visually congruent. It's intuitive. The schedule option is particularly useful and visually ease to understand.

Inconvénients

Maybe they should offer the time tracking option in a more accesible way.

Avantages

- Admin can easily track the daily to daily working hours of an employee
- There are every type of options which are used to track the hours of an employee by HR
- User can add the hours according to its project which are saved by its project manager

Inconvénients

I am just a user of this software which just log its hours in the team deck. so I am not so sure about the cons here

Avantages

teamdeck has unique capabilities that ensure that we are in the same line at any time.

Inconvénients

Time tracking module of teamdeck could be developed in a more advance way.

Avantages

There are a lot of addons to make use such as windows forms and power bi, which is used as a shortcut to show data on our progress

Inconvénients

If you're laptop disconnects from the internet and reconnects, you need to manually refresh team, would be nice if it can do that automatically.

Downloading of files are horrible, it should open the file when the download is complete like outlook

Avantages

It is easy to use, well integrated with Slack and CakeHR, a very flexible tool to book and track time

Inconvénients

Reports take a lot time before being generated. Would also be good to have an App (maybe simplified version)

Avantages

1) Ease of marking bookings and off time i.e. annual leaves etc... Like the timeline thing.
2) Can also distinguish between paid time and unpaid time.
3) They have an API with which we can import data into our attendance system.

Inconvénients

1) The timeline acts funny at times which gets very frustrating. Sometimes the bookings disappear or the time people logged disappear. Have to refresh multiple times for them to appear again.
2) Making your own personal views of different projects is cumbersome. It should be simplified and self explanatory. Also, there should be an option to make these views public or personal.
3) May be add weekly reminders if an employee hasn't been booked on something. Email or push notification reminder.

Avantages

It is easy to use. The api documentation was really well written, allowing us to easily incorporate it into existing systems, and even use Teamdeck data in a power BI dash board for custom visuals and analysis . It has allowed our project managers to really keep tabs on things once the team started working from home.

Inconvénients

Your api per-page-pagination is set to 20 by default, but 50 max. It would be great if this could be greatly increased. This limitation really limits the GET requests when using Microsoft's Power platform custom connectors, which can't handle multiple pages(at least not automatically). Typically when we GET projects/bookings/time-entries you want to get all of them.

Avantages

It's very easy to use and set up. As a user I am not overwhelmed by unnecessary features. When we set up the system I had a number of questions about reporting that I mailed through to the team and got really good responeses in a quick turnaround.

Inconvénients

As an IT company I often have engineers working out of hours. It would be good to have a feature that allowed us to tag out of hours work. It's not a problem with the software though, more a feature that would be useful for us.

As a PM I'd also love an MS Project plug in.

Avantages

We’ve been using this software for as long as I’ve been at the company and it’s a fantastic tool to track hours spent with certain projects, which is key in my job role.

Inconvénients

The UI can be a bit confusing but I’m used to it by now - I’d say it could do with being more user friendly for first time users.

Avantages

Perfect tool for people management, I can see my team capacity

Inconvénients

Good project and capacity planning, Its helpful for managers and PM

Avantages

Doesn't have 1000 features that nobody needs. It's focused, easy to use and simple.

Inconvénients

Would like to view the vacation days taken for the entire year (not just for the current month).

Avantages

User can easily lock his hours and ,as well AS there are many options that makes the app more detailed featured

Inconvénients

I have a very limited use. so i can't explain the cons properly