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Planview AgilePlace pros and cons

Vendor: Planview

4.5 out of 5

11 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Planview AgilePlace enhances visibility by allowing teams to track dependencies and collaborate with detailed comments and status updates. Users value its scalability and Kanban-based features. However, there are uncertainties regarding its support for Scrum and scaled agile methodologies. Improvements are needed for time tracking, JIRA, and Enterprise One integrations. Enhancements in API and data accessibility are essential for faster access. Planview AgilePlace's transparency and stakeholder insights are notable, yet integration improvements are necessary.

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PROS

Planview AgilePlace enhances work visibility, making it easy for everyone to track tasks using Kanban boards and card hierarchies.

The parent-child relationship within cards helps teams identify dependencies, aiding in project completion.

Its functionality allows seamless ticket management and collaboration, ensuring easy access to information, even when team members are unavailable.

The "Blocking" feature assists scrum masters in tracking impediments, providing stakeholders with detailed accountability and actionable insights.

Planview AgilePlace is highly scalable and transparent, encouraging adoption across enterprise stakeholders and supporting various use cases.

CONS

The integration with Enterprise One needs improvement due to limited connectivity between both applications.

Tracking actual time on cards or sprints is not available, impacting usability.

Instant Coffee requires enhancements, particularly in saving work effectively and improving mapping capabilities.

There is limited reporting on customizable fields and third-party extensions, which needs enhancement.

The API and data connections could be improved for better accessibility and speed.

Planview AgilePlace Pros review quotes

JC

Agile Delivery Lead at Eliassen

Oct 15, 2019

It makes work visible, so everybody knows where everything is. It uses Kanban, and that makes work visible.

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BN

Applications Analyst at University of Kansas Medical Center

Sep 16, 2020

We use the board and card hierarchies in terms of sprints so that we can see if we have cross-functional teams that are working on the same projects together, especially when projects have dependencies. The parent-child relationship within cards is really nice so that we can see what kind of dependencies there are when we're trying to get projects finished.

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Derrick Johnson

Application Analyst at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Sep 21, 2020

My team specifically uses our board for all of our Remedy tickets that come in. We had a card for every ticket that we get, and we're able to add the link to that specific ticket there.If I'm out of office, for example, and someone else needs to work a ticket or someone is being contacted to work on a ticket, I don't have to sign on it. Someone else can easily access that ticket because I put the link in there. It's nice. It has a lot of great functionality in there.

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Manufacturing Manager, Capital COE at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 13, 2021

Using the tool seems to save time versus trying to do things in a regular manner. It is highly collaborative; everybody can see things in one place. It is a highly functional, but pretty simple tool. That is hard to find: A tool that has a lot of functions, but is also simple.

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Director, Solution Strategy & PMO at Verisk Analytics

Sep 21, 2021

The "Blocking" feature has helped our scrum masters track impediments and share them at the program level to stakeholders with accountability and detail so that they understand and the action items which can be noted easily.

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NS

Perfect Execution Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

LeanKit is amazing when it comes to getting answers about a given card's status. That's one of the biggest takeaways that we've had. The status is right there on the board. Everybody can see it. You just click on it and it gives you everything that you need to know, especially the comments feature because it gives us a timeline of updates. We use that a lot where we write a comment on the card and then we can see and track progress as we move it across the board.

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Executive Support Team Leader at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

I would say it's highly scalable. LeanKit can scale across the enterprise easily. Every business could probably find a use case for leveraging LeanKit.

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MZ

Process Improvement Facilitator-Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

The transparency that it brings is valuable. I like to look at things from all angles, and sometimes, flip chart paper on a wall and sticky notes are better than something on a screen, but the way they've made it accessible from all points for anyone within an organization is great. As a project management guy, sometimes, you have to force people into new environments where they have to see what you're talking about. Any screen is a barrier, and people got to get into the screen. How do you know they do? You don't necessarily know, but you are getting around that barrier with a countermeasure of making it accessible to as many as possible. So, everyone can jump in there and see everything. It is fully transparent, and I like that. This is one thing that helps.

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Works with 201-500 employees

Sep 29, 2021

People found the ability to set up different lanes and the ability to see where they're within the progress most valuable. They can use different colored cards or sticky notes, and then they can separate out which cards belong to a department or the initiative they're working on. They can filter who's working on it, and I've got good feedback about that.

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PM Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 30, 2021

Every feature is valuable. LeanKit is a Kanban-based tool where you have a visual interface that you can use to create various cards and to create boards to house those cards. You can create a board for managing project work. You can create a board to do PI planning. It is pretty close to the agile way of doing business.

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Planview AgilePlace Cons review quotes

JC

Agile Delivery Lead at Eliassen

Oct 15, 2019

I do not know what it can do in the area of scrum. Maybe it has that functionality. I have never tried to set it up. You think of LeanKit from the perspective of Kanban. I don't know if there is a template for scrum, a scaled agile framework, or any of those scaling frameworks.

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BN

Applications Analyst at University of Kansas Medical Center

Sep 16, 2020

Being able to track actual time on cards or sprints, instead of using just the planned start and stop date, would also be useful. I would like to see something like JIRA has with actual sprint starts and stops.

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Derrick Johnson

Application Analyst at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Sep 21, 2020

The ability to report on customizable fields and third-party extensions needs improvement. I'd like to see more of those being able to be used. I don't know how that works for Planview, but just getting a little bit more added there would be nice.

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Manufacturing Manager, Capital COE at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 13, 2021

The integration with the Enterprise One product is probably an area for improvement. It's not really broken. It's just that it is such a handy tool and a great way to visually manage things. There is a very limited hookup/integration between Enterprise One, which is the master Planview tool, and LeanKit. While they are looking at this on their roadmap, it definitely needs to happen. There is a lot of opportunity there.

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Director, Solution Strategy & PMO at Verisk Analytics

Sep 21, 2021

Our overall impression of Leankit has been very positive, however, our experience with the JIRA integration into our Leankit boards was much harder than we anticipated and that could be improved by simplifying it somehow.

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NS

Perfect Execution Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane.

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Executive Support Team Leader at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

There's room for improvement with the Instant Coffee feature. There are other businesses that have been interested in leveraging a virtual whiteboard or sticky note capability and how Instant Coffee was developed has not met the mark.

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MZ

Process Improvement Facilitator-Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 22, 2021

They have a feature called Instant Coffee. It was in the beta phase. They released it from beta, and now, it is a legit thing. We were in the pilot here. I liked the idea of Instant Coffee, and I like how it is integrated, to some degree, with LeanKit, but I have two big rocks to throw at them on this. The first one is that Instant Coffee does not save your work very well in terms of saving it in formats that you can then go back and edit as Visio would. It leads to the next point, which is, we're not really clear on what they're trying to do with Instant Coffee. I feel that they're trying not to reinvent Visio, Miro, and other software programs out there that do mapping, visual diagrams, etc. Miro is fantastic in that regard. I gather they're not trying to reinvent Miro, but it sure would be nice if it had more aspects of Miro in it, such as being able to draw arrows and write on them on the top.

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Works with 201-500 employees

Sep 29, 2021

It is a pretty good product. It is really hard to think of things that I'd want to be improved. Sometimes, we use it for project management lessons learned. So, we have three columns, such as Could be Improved, Keep Doing, and Works Really Well. It would be helpful if there was a template set up for something like that because we code different cards based on the category. For example, if something belongs to the Could be Improved category, we may have those cards as yellow, but then I have to change the color of them and put a header. It is not as smooth, but it still works fine. To be honest, I don't have a lot of complaints about it.

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PM Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 30, 2021

Within the current features, if they can give some ability to show more icons on the card, it would be helpful. It would help us in showing more data on the cards.

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