monday.com Reviews

We switched to Monday from a couple of other options for tracking task management for our projects. That had proved to be a pretty difficult thing to do, since we kind of straddled the line in terms of a small business versus a big project, project management, somewhere. Particularly the developers and designers on our teams can use some of the larger solutions, however, most of our clients just don't feel that is necessary. It's really nice to be able to scale up when we need to. We had just a lot of issues finding something that was going to be easy to use, not just for developers, but designers as well, and allowed for at least some customer interaction through the dashboard as well.

Their flagship feature, what used to be called the pulse is great. Pulse offers great management. Being able to see everything at a glance and check task status, is wonderful. They use subtasks and the simple aspects of task management have been really helpful. Even beyond that, we do some Gantt views and calendar views, however, a lot of it is really just being able to manage large numbers of tasks seamlessly and be able to view them on different dashboards individually, not just per project. 

Previously, that was the limitation. We could look at all of the projects that someone was working on, and all of the tasks associated with the project, however, being able to filter down very specifically to say which tasks were on a particular project for a particular day, the interface was a lot better in our testing of Monday than it was with other similar solutions.

Speed and reliability need to be better. I don't mean that in a very basic, "Oh, we can't log in." Rather, there are issues with connectivity. That happens with anything at any sort of scale. I understand that. A bigger issue definitely is speed. It can run very slowly at times. A lot of the time we don't have issues, however, there are plenty of times when switching between views takes a long time, and I recognize they're doing on-the-fly queries with a lot of data. That's hard to do, hard to speed up, however, it does impact our workflow. That can really slow us down, particularly when we're trying to do a quick project check-in and we have to switch between two projects or more than one project and more than one person, having to drill down between those different contexts can be pretty cumbersome if it's a project at any sort of scale.

We've been using the solution since 2019.

It's fairly stable. They probably hit 99% or 98% stable, however, they'll go down for half a day at a time sometimes, which isn't great. It's not very common. That may be once or twice a year that they'll go down for a couple of hours, which obviously throws a wrench into things for us, however, there's enough collateral in other services that we're able to see what we're working on. It doesn't usually get in the way too much. We'll just work off PostIts for a couple of hours so we can reconcile everything. It's not too bad.

I can't speak to the number of clients that we have using it, since I don't know. However, internally, we've got six people using it. We bring clients in as well and have them use the system as necessary, which usually only happens if they're more on the medium to large-scale business or if it happens to be a more in-depth project. They'll usually have one or two seats that they use in that case, just to be able to offer feedback as we're working through the project. Occasionally, we'll have more than that, however, internally it's about a half dozen seats and then externally it's "as needed".

In most senses, it seems very scalable. That's one of the things that drew us to the product was that it can be used to handle very small projects, can be used to handle much larger projects. 

The issue that you run into is the same issue with scalability that you're going to have anywhere. It's large amounts of data, and so, querying that data just takes more time.  I would say that we do have some issues with scalability, however, it's really not more than we'd have with other project management systems except maybe something that was on-premises.

Technical support is pretty good. They're pretty responsive to the issues that we have. The consistent issue that we have had with them, if we have one, has been speed instability. When we inquire about that, we get a regular answer of, "Oh, we're sorry to hear about that. We're working on it. We'll get someone back to you when we have an answer," and very little will happen. It's not unexpected as we recognize the difficulties that they're dealing with. That said, after a while, it can feel a little hollow having that response. I suppose that's no different than what most customer service teams will do. They do offer guidance when we ask for help, however.

We still used 10,000 Feet a little bit, which was subsumed into Smartsheet some time ago. We used that really just for timesheet tracking since it happens to integrate with our accounting software, that's in the process of moving, however, the accounting software is kind of the lame-duck here. We have to work at the speed of the accounting software and that is Glacial. Previously, we used that for all of our task management as it was so simple to tie that to very specific line item accounting. We do that to a certain extent still, however, it's much more for the day-to-day tasks that don't need to be tied to a number, just tied to a task list to be able to track feedback loops and whatnot. That's really what Monday has helped with.

Everybody's just using their website. It's either that or their free app through the app store. It's a very public cloud situation.

Everybody in the company was involved at some level with the setup. I did some of the testing and vetting of various solutions before anything happened and then went through Monday and a bunch of webinars and whatnot too. 

The initial setup is pretty simple. One of the advantages that Monday probably has for itself is that you don't need to dive straight into really deep integrations unless you want to. A lot of that has come very slowly with our team. Therefore, initially, it was very simple. We're using much more complicated things through some of our integrations with GitHub and Slack and whatnot, however, right off the bat, implementation is easy.

We have two people, handling the setup. Our team's project manager did almost everything. Then, intermittently, we would have someone else from Monday help on troubleshooting a couple of things. There isn't anybody who is full-time just Monday.com management.

In terms of maintenance, we do have one full-time project manager. There's maintenance in that someone needs to go in and assign tasks and manage the status of those tasks if they do tree shaking and pruning, so to speak, to make sure that everything is moving along. However, the updates in terms of architecture are handled automatically, which is nice. The content of the software is software as a service. We have endpoints and we do what we can. 

We did everything internally. We connected with their onboarding team a bit, however, it's mostly folks who are running webinars normally. I don't remember us having a dedicated person past the first week or two. It was more about getting us acquainted with the platform rather than trying to build out a whole. The system itself doesn't need a lot of configuration compared to Jira or any of those larger systems that get you more at that ERP level.

We've seen an ROI. It has really helped from a process point of view for us to be able to do some internal evaluations of our QA processes and to be able to really push everyone towards documenting everything that they're doing. It's nice that there's a single point of truth for all of our projects. That was definitely lacking previously. 

It's extremely affordable. I've considered even getting a personal license just outside of work as it's been so helpful for all of my task management at work. I haven't quite pulled the trigger on that, since I'm not sure that the price point quite makes sense to have two of them running side by side. That said, it's great. The price point is very approachable, particularly for the time it saves. If it saves one hour a month, it more than pays for itself.

We looked at several other options. We looked at a few that were more on the free side or had free tiers like Asana and Trello. We also looked at Jira, which uses swim lanes and is very scrum compliant, very agile. 

Monday seems to be what really struck a nice balance between what was usable from the designer and project manager end, and then what was usable from the developer end as well. 

I would advise others to give it a go. It's been great for task management with collaboration on top and some web-based integrations like Slack, Github, or Microsoft Teams.

Public Cloud

We primarily use the board, and we use automation, rules, and different groups.

We use monday.com for our workflow. But we don't really have any issues with Monday.com.

We spend less time organizing our things to do. Everything is on the board on Monday.com and we don't have to discuss or assign or meet anymore. We just push a button and change the status and it's done. We work more efficiently since using Monday.com.

There are so many great features. All of them are great.

The filters are extremely useful. Since we work remotely, we can filter down to the task, to employees, to urgency, to everything. Every little detail we can filter down into. The filtering is the best part. 

All of our projects, tasks, and clients are on the same board so we can search for anything and we don't have to ask the others.

They improve the product regularly. We just go with the flow as it works perfectly for us.

The solution should have better integration. We have, for example, Ignition, our online contract platform. When the clients sign the contract online, it would be awesome if it could trigger Monday.com and create a task immediately. Right now, we are doing it manually. We were trying to connect Monday.com with Ignition through Zapier, however, it was too complicated. Therefore, integration would be awesome.

They need a bigger server or more space on whatever they keep this website on. Sometimes, when we have a huge board, it gets slow. They might need more resources.

The product could have more templates.

I've been using the solution since 2020.

The stability is endless. I don't have any projects that I cannot set up on Monday.com. It's so flexible. If you need something to organize your stuff, Monday.com is the best.

There are 14 end-users. Everyone works from their laptops.

The scalability is great. There's nothing I can't set up, no matter the size.

Technical support is awesome. They had some technical issues, a few weeks ago and they kept me posted. They replied back immediately. It was totally acceptable. They admitted to the technical issues and they did not argue. They did not ask me to refer to the router and stuff like that. Everything was good. Their support is good.

Positive

We tried many different platforms and none of them worked. Then, on Facebook,  an ad for Monday.com popped up and the company loved it.

We tried Karbon, and then Jetpack. They were not good. We spent more time changing and updating the status than the actual work.

Monday.com has more flexibility. Karbon did not have that many settings. Since we are a CPA firm, we have different projects and groups like tax returns, monthly closing, small tasks, and so many different items and tasks. Now, we have 14 users in this group and Karbon did not have that big flexibility to assign, and share tasks and responsibilities. We couldn't work it out. When we tried Monday.com, we found that we could change a lot more and update, and personalize everything specifically to the firm, or to the project, or the task.

The initial setup was easy. There are great tutorials and support.

There were three people who handled the deployment. I was one of them. There was a manager who did the workflow and the professional details. I did the operational side of the workflow and another individual did the overall review and is the owner.

The product does not require any maintenance. 

We did not use an integrator or consultant during the initial setup.

We've seen an ROI. The time we spent on organizing is a lot less than what we did before.

Previously, before Monday.com, our firm time was a lot higher. The firm time is when you are doing your organizing, saving documents, and checking your things to do. Now, it's a lot less. I would say 30% to 40% less time spent on organizing than we spent before. All of the time we saved, we carried over to billable time with clients.

We are customers and end-users. Our environment is 100% virtual, with everyone working from home. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I'd advise new users to watch the tutorials. If you do not have the basic knowledge of how to use Monday.com, you can get lost very quickly.

When a platform has so many settings and solutions, that means that it's more difficult to set up everything, as it's not quick. When you set up a workflow, you have multiple options to choose from and then, when you choose an option, then you have other multiple options. You can mess it up pretty quickly. 

However, if you are watching the tutorials, and see and think ahead about how you want to set up your board and what you want to see, this platform would be perfect. That said, at first, you need to know what you want to see. A random setting up of boards, statuses, and labels will not be ideal. If you know what you want to see, then you can prepare. 

Private Cloud

Monday helps our decentralized team connect digitally. 

Its flexibility allows information that was once only prepared and shared in one way to be presented in a way that is appealing and even more useful for other disciplines, without fundamentally changing the way a person needs to work. 

It also allows us to show aspects of our project to our volunteers in a way that doesn't break the bank. The guests feature is important for an organization like ours, that spends a lot of time connecting and communicating with people from coast to coast.

Our teams know about candidate launch deadlines, and it takes the burden of an organizing staffer being required to also make sure every department head has been alerted to an event, even if it's as granular as a task handoff. 

All our info, all in one place, is infinitely expandable with a myriad of integrations that work like a charm. We were able to remove bulky, siloed CRMs and tools that perhaps only one person from one team would use, and consolidate everything into Monday. 

Cross-team collaboration shifted from challenging to "just the way we do things" overnight. 

External facing development boards, countdowns, email alert systems for deadlines, and progress summaries have been great. Having all our stuff in one place, within one tool is extremely helpful. 

Being able to pull entire departments into their own ecosystem, while managing the user access from one dashboard is incredibly valuable. 

One of the best features I can speak to is getting alerts based on status and progress, task by task. Monday has really changed the notion of update meetings for our team- we can view updates at a glance, and get as granular as we need, or take a wide-angle view of the entire organization's progress. 

It's always great to get more training support for new folks. We highly recommended it so that you are able to get the most out of the platform. 

This isn't a platform where you scrimp on the training and send one person to bring back knowledge. Monday is different things to different people, and context matters. Everyone should be immersed in its workings if you want to truly revolutionize your organization. 

The feature set is so robust, that my suggestions are really quite narrow in scope - as basic as expanding the color palette to folders in a workspace. 

My organization has been using Monday for three years. 

I've found Monday to be a very stable platform. Over the course of my using Monday, I cannot recall a time that the service was down or inaccessible to me. 

It scales up and down, depending on your contract. 

Nothing to complain about in terms of technical support. They are responsive, engaging, and always checking in. 

Positive

We used several different solutions and Monday took care of many of our other 3rd-party tools - everything from our CRM to our helpdesk to our research. Those 3rd party tools we had to keep were easily integrated into Monday. 

The solution offers a fantastic team setup and support options. It's a la carte and scales up to a more robust integration. 

I run two different instances of Monday, one in-house, one through the vendor team. I am partial to the in-house. 

We haven't done the exact math on this, however, in morale alone, the return is a net positive. 

I'd advise new users to get the training you need for all the staff who will need discrete spaces carved out on Monday.

Don't get me wrong, Monday is easy to pick up and use for folks who don't need to do deeper stuff, however, your organization will need to consider how best to integrate the tool into your business. 

If there are choices, only integrate the parts of your business that you want to relieve from being crushed under the weight of your organization's ad-minutia. 

Monday was the first alternative to our current toolset that we looked at. 

Monday is a whole-team solution. Make sure everyone gets a crack at seeing how they could use it- and let them play around a bit with the new ideas presented via the toolset. It's fun. 

Private Cloud

The primary use case is for task management and clearly communicating ongoing and planned projects to colleagues across different teams within different geographies. 

I work in the marketing department of a global tech company, which is rather matrixed, so clear communication of current and planned projects helps myself and others to clearly understand where synergies might exist. 

I also use the platform to communicate requests to other internal teams, such as creative and design, and to keep track of the progress of my requests.

I am able to keep much better track of all current projects and each aspect of individual projects, which has helped to make team meetings a breeze. Everyone is clear on which tasks they are responsible for and I am able to review our Monday's board before each meeting to develop an agenda of problems to solve and updates to discuss. 

Organization, in general, has been greatly improved and it has had a marked improvement in communication also, cutting down on wasted time during meetings and making life a little easier for everyone.

I like the ability to connect boards. If I make an update to my board to mark a project as complete or content as live, my colleagues in the social team then know that this piece of content is now live and our community manager can begin to interact with comments. This is so useful as it helps to remove any unnecessary emailing/messaging. 

I also like the general layout and the ability to color-code projects/tasks. It provides an incredibly clear and user-friendly format. The ability to expand/contract tasks, edit labels and edit the ordering of projects are also incredibly useful features.

Email notifications from Monday.com can sometimes not lead to the relevant update I am being notified about. When this happens, I then need to review the email to understand which board the update has come from and then manually find the board with the update I need to address within Monday.com. If the email led me to the specific board, then it'd be a much easier experience and require less of an investment of time.In my opinion, this aspect of the user experience should definitely be addressed within the next release of the platform.

I've used the solution for one year. 

Overall, the solution is fairly stable and will likely continue to be a major part of the company I work for. It will be interesting to see further features/abilities added.

I have not yet engaged customer service and support.

Neutral

I previously used Trello. I switched as my new company already used Monday.com.

I am not involved in procurement. I am simply a user.

I like the product and am looking forward to using it more.

Private Cloud

I use Monday.com to manage four different content editorial calendars. There are several different approval processes for each calendar, and Monday helps us submit content as updates, and have them reviewed, approved, and ready to publish all in one platform. 

Once the content is published, it remains on the Monday board so we can see which items were completed in the past and whether they need to be updated again. 

In the past, I’ve also used Monday to manage a social media calendar. It was the easiest way to keep track of social media posts, even with ownership of many different platforms. 

It has kept us very organized. 

In the past, we used email to send content items back and forth for review. In this shuffle, items would get lost in inboxes. Sometimes, Word documents would be shuffled so colleagues may be editing older versions. 

With our Monday calendars, content stays on one platform, so version control is stronger. 

We use automation, so it’s also helped us stay on deadline by including reminders as the dates approach. 

At a glance, Monday tells us whether we’re producing enough content. 

Automations have proven most valuable. Most notably, when I mark a pulse as “complete” it automatically tags a colleague. This means I no longer have to manually send emails to colleagues to push items along the approval process. 

It also saves us room for error - if a colleague forgets to send an item to the next person, it no longer costs us time because the next person is already tagged. As mentioned above, these automations also help us to stay on time. 

With the timeline feature, if a content update is nearing or past its due date, the date will turn red and I know to prioritize it. 

It's very simple to use and very useful.

It would be beneficial to have the ability to toggle between the traditional Monday.com pulse view and a monthly calendar view. Sometimes I’d like to see a more high-level overview of what our content looks like for the entire month or quarter. 

For social media management, it would be incredibly useful if Monday could connect to social media platforms so that we could schedule and publish social media content directly from our calendar. For planning purposes, this would also tell us right away whether posts had too many characters or whether photo or video files are small enough for each social platform. 

I've been using the product for over two years.

The solution is fairly stable. There are sometimes outages, however, they’re transparent about those. 

I'm not sure if the product can scale.  

So far, technical support is very transparent during outages. 

Positive

We used Trello before. We switched when my organization decided to use Monday. 

I wasn’t involved in the setup. 

We used a vendor team, however, I'm not sure about expertise. 

I wasn’t involved in the licensing process. I don’t know much about pricing.  

I wasn’t involved in the decision making process. 

Our business uses Monday.com to communicate assignments to each of our departments. Our management then receives the notice of the new assignments, can communicate with other staff in an organized location related to the said assignment, and can do all of this for multiple assignments at once. 

Monday.com is a very organized and easy-to-use tool. 

We also use this tool as a way to track the status of online sales. We only have about half a dozen of online sales active at any time (we are 99% storefront retail, with very rare cases of online sales) and Monday.com allows the storefronts to keep track of the online sale status all in one convenient place that one of our users keeps updated as the status of the sale changes.

Our business has produced a new level of communication and understanding of work needing to be completed that we did not have prior to using Monday.com. Prior to using Monday.com, we were primarily using texts and phone calls to communicate, but by not using an all-inclusive form of communication, a lot of vital information was lost in the weeds and Monday.com has resolved all of these issues. Monday.com allows us to keep all communication local to the problem in question, while not losing the information needed to succeed.

The communication/update section on each assignment is excellent. The ability to ask and answer questions and update each other on the progress of an assignment, while staying in the confines of that specific assignment, while also not disturbing other assignments or adding confusion is a priceless asset. 

As I included in my previous answer, we were primarily using texts and phone calls to communicate, but by not using an all-inclusive form of communication, a lot of vital information was lost in the weeds and Monday.com has resolved all of
these issues. 

Monday.com allows us to keep all communication local to the problem in question, while not losing the information needed to succeed.

There should be on-screen PC/Mac notifications when the website/service is not open on the screen. If they made it similar to a social media notification, that would be a bonus. From what I've been able to find, this is not a current feature with Monday.com. 

Another area of improvement would probably be a form of inclusion from outside sources of communication. I would love to be able to read a Monday.com notification on an Apple Watch, use voice-to-text to respond to the said notification, and then have that response get added to the Monday.com assignment in question.

Again, these may already be implemented in some form or fashion, however, I have yet to find them.

Our business has been using Monday.com for almost two years now.

Our company's instance of Monday.com is cloud-hosted and we have no impression of the service halting in the future. We plan to use this service as our sole project management solution.

Our company's instance of Monday.com is fairly small compared to other instances that I have seen. Our company only has around 25 employees that use Monday.com on a day-to-day basis. We keep everything within a couple of pages, and I've seen corporations that have dozens of pages open within their instance with each page essentially being used as an individual storefront. I have definitely seen cases of use where we could grow our company's instance into much more in-depth management, however, we have yet to see a need to.

We have had minimal communication with customer service and/or support, only due to the fact that we haven't needed support in any way so far. Everything has run smoothly.

Positive

We have tried multiple solutions in the past (Asana, Whatsapp), however, have found that Monday.com has been the easiest product to integrate completely into our day-to-day with our staff. 

We have a staff of upper-level management that doesn't always want to conform to new technological inclusions into our business, especially on a day-to-day level, and we have had little to no push back on our integration with Monday.com. 

All levels of management use it on a day-to-day basis and company-wide, we have had great success in communication and a higher rate of completion by the deadline on projects and assignments created within the Monday.com platform.

The initial setup is completely straightforward. Our VP had no issues setting up the service for our company.

The solution was implemented in-house.

Our ROI with Monday.com is primarily based on job accuracy and completion by goal dates issued by upper management. While we don't directly quantify a financial ROI for Monday.com within our business, we do acknowledge the growth in information retainment, higher job accuracy within our lower-level staff, and higher completion by goal dates company-wide since implementing Monday.com into our business.

I'd advise new users to prepare to budget around Monday.com being a needed product that is never considered a dropable product. It has become a massive asset to our day-to-day production, and we plan to run full speed with Monday.com as our primary project management tool. 

It was extremely simple and easy to set up for our vice president who was then able to individually invite the required staff into our company's instance of Monday.com, and within an hour he had created the infrastructure that we have operated for the last two years.

As I said previously, we have tried multiple solutions in the past (Asana, Whatsapp). I have found that Monday.com has been the easiest product to integrate completely into our day-to-day with our staff.

Monday.com is a fantastic project management tool that our company would recommend to any company working in any field with a deadline.

I use this solution for project management and events planning. I manage a school (kids from three years to 17 years old). In my school there are more than 1200 students and 80 teachers, so it has been hard to organize them all. We use the Google Suite, however, we needed a tool to manage the projects and plan the events.

We also use it to organize the documentation we need to have to achieve our quality standards. As we can have a clear view of what we have and what we do not; we realize in what areas we have to work harder.

It has helped me to organize the important things, projects, and events in a better way. We have bought ten accounts for the managers, so we are connected and working on the projects. We would like to integrate all of our collaborators but it is expensive. 

Since we started to use Monday, we have been able to have a clear view of how organized we are, we have created a board for the important things that the school has to do. We assign responsibilities for each activity and they receive an email about it, it is awesome. 

The most valuable tools I have found on Monday.com are the calendar, automatization, and the capabilities to link apps like Google Forms. We have been able to integrate our Google Suite to Monday. 

It is also good to receive reminders about projects and deadlines. Besides that, it has been not hard to learn how to use it. I really love the integrations, we use Integromat to link our Google Forms to Monday. 

It is also a great app for desktops and cellphones. 

I have found many good options to organize my time, my projects, and my events.

It should be cheaper. 

It should have more options to create panels.

It should also have options to share the boards or some info directly to Gmail. 

In premium accounts, the amount of transactions allowed is so low. We have not been able to integrate more apps due to this limitation. 

There is not enough information in Spanish. Most of my users do not speak English. It has been hard to learn to use all the functions.

I would also want some plans with fewer permissions. Maybe they could have access to just one board so that accounts could be cheaper. We have 80 teachers and we need that they are enrolled in just one board. We do not want to pay just for one board. 

I've used the solution for two years. 

We have not had problems with the solution. There have just been some crashes on my iPad.

I really like that we can grow as much as we want. The only bad thing is the price.

It has been good. I have written two times and I have received good and quick answers.

Positive

I did not use a different solution. We use the Google Suite, however, it is not the same. It does not have a management tool.

There is not enough information in Spanish; the tutorial videos were not so clear, however, it is easy to use it.

I implemented the product by myself.

The ROI of using this app has been 4 to 1 as we have optimized our work.

I always say it is expensive, yet it is worth it, especially if you run a company with many projects and events.

We evaluated Asana, however, we did not like it at all. We also tried ToDo app, however, it was not enough.

There should be cheaper plans with fewer options and maybe with access to one board or something like that.

Hybrid Cloud

Other

We are a 35-person accounting services department within a larger accounting firm, and our department uses Monday.com to track the recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting engagements as well as regular business filings, one-off unique projects for clients, and some of our internal processes. 

We use it as a workflow tool to track various stages and statuses of task in a project, and as our personal work to-do lists. We use it to onboard new employees, as well as a topic tracker to create agendas for our task force department initiatives.  

We were tracking our work in a few different places that weren't very user-friendly for regular updates. 

For 85% of our work, it is on a recurring basis (either monthly, quarterly, or annually) and we need the same engagement to roll each month and create a new project for the subsequent month. 

Monday.com helped us capture all the work we're doing in one place, with liveability to provide timely updates on the status of projects, and it allows us to create customized boards to track the tasks associated with each engagement. It gave us the flexibility to build it how we want it to suit our unique mode of operation (a lot of small recurring processes). 

We chose Monday.com for the flexibility. It is relatively easy to build a basic board for tracking projects and tasks. 

It has a pleasing and pretty user interface, allowing conditional formatting and color coding for easy visual tracking of projects and statuses. It doesn't take much training to get up and running in it. It's easy to pick up and click around and figure out how to build a basic board. 

I like the ability to customize so that we can create a system that works for us, and easily iterate it as things change.  

The inbox and notifications section is not great, therefore, we don't use the comments field to communicate with each other. We instead communicate outside of the platform in Microsoft Teams. 

It is hard to maintain when you have linked boards, automation, etc. It can doa lot, however, that means it requires a lot of upkeep too. We didn't purchase the Enterprise package. Our representative mentioned that would have provided advice and a roadmap for supporting our rollout, however, we couldn't have known what we wanted out of the gates. Therefore, it was best that we implemented it ourselves, however, at this point it's a little sprawling and on the brink of becoming unmanageable. 

I've used the solution for three and a half years.

A few times it'll have an outage or glitch, however, it never lasts more than an hour or so.

The solution is definitely scalable, however, it would require a champion or team of people with a significant investment of time to stay up to date and manage the flow of boards.  

We used a combination of a variety of tools, including shared Excel docs, Outlook calendars, and Smartsheet.

The setup is pretty simple and straightforward. That said, we were much smaller at the time (maybe 20 people). 

We evaluated Asana and Trello.