LiquidPlanner Reviews & Product Details

Cloud base solution that provides a platform to collaborate across departments. We enjoy LP's reporting capabilities based on each of our projects collectively. LP is instantaneously update when members post/comment to a project as well as notifying members via email to view the response in LP.

The restrictions for the amount of filters you can add to a view. Since we use the tool across departments, each department will view a report or dashboard differently. Being able to filter beyond 5 filter would greatly help to only filter in items pertaining to your department.

LP allows us to cross collaborate among departments and centralize information for each project team on a project. Additionally, we work in different time zone, internationally, so the information that passes through our groups are not lost and can be easily referenced as the project move along.

I enjoy that it keeps projects separated, everyone working on a project has a central place to see all the updated and info they may need, and different teams can have sub-sections under one project to keep tasks straight.

The application itself isn't as intuitive as I would prefer it to be. Many times I am confused with what buttons and navigation mean.

It helps my coworkers and I keep creative projects on track & ensure we meet deadlines.

The way it flags that you are likely to miss your target deadline as you schedule a project allowing you to create a more realistic time plan.

It doesn't set up reminders for you as far as I can tell.

It helps give transparency to the stages of projects throughout the business and the dependencies.

The flexibility of the program which allow users to reflow their jobs to fit their individual day-by-day situation.

The interface could be simpler, there are tabs I don't need.

Project organizing most of the time. The way LiquidPlanner allows users to adjust timelines and priority is super helpful.

task management. it does a good job at organizing our tasks.

integration with other tools. it would like to see more integration to developer tracking tools (TFS/Git)

coordinating tasks for multiple teams.

How well it allows us to stay on track with our current projects.

It could provide more user friendly tools to help learn the program

We faced problems of reaching on-time-delivery goals with our customers. This has helped us significantly with this problem

Web-based, full-featured PM tool. Also allows for capture of hours and billing of time, etc.

I think the largest thing that I dislike right now is the way we are using it. We don't set things up appropriately to use the information that we can gain from completing our projects to feed back to the estimation team.

We use it for every project that we run, internal and external. We use it for logging the engineering team's time as well so that we can bill customers.

Comprehensive project management software for large teams or large scope projects, Liquid Planner makes communication record between individual team members accessible to others on the team who want to keep up with changes. Task Management lists assigned to individual people are easy to update or move out deadlines. Links to project documents are easy to attach and send via email so team can use same version in project documents without everyone downloading copies to their own computer and having outdated materials.

Liquid Planner is not that easy to use at first -- using the flowcharting takes some time and experience to learn. This software is for the professional project manager with a complicated large scope, large dollar value project which is where it is worthwhile to learn the expertise required to make the most of it's capabilities.

Liquid Planner was used as an alternative to SharePoint for a larger team of people from multiple departments. However there needs to be expertise in using Liquid Planner and some training before it can be used. There are on line tutorials the company provides which all team members need to make use of the different features.

Enables quick view tracking and in depth report analysis.

At times slow over a Virtual private network

Multi device access let’s me do work on the go or on the move. Simple intuitive UI design makes seeing tasks easy. To stay informed.

I like the ability to have ranged estimates rather that single point estimates for tasks. There are also robust analytics and dashboard capabilities with new features being added regularly. It also supports a variety of project management styles, both waterfall and agile, though it is better optimized for agile. It also has a variety of views which are useful across role-types, including a card view, a project view, a list/work view.

The dashboard capacity is not sufficiently robust right now to meet all C-level visibility needs. The mobile app allows for some time tracking but is not fully featured. It is designed for workers to track time and comment, but is not good for managers, or project plan manipulation. You cannot rearrange tasks, etc, from the mobile app.

We needed a project management and timekeeping software to allow us to track client-facing and internal project work. It has streamlined timekeeping, and by combining timekeeping with project management, allowed us to keep more project data in a single place

The ability to manage a variety of tasks for different clients in one place

The speed at which comments come through (alerts to new comments are often slow to appear in 'my comments')

Collaborative project management

The level of organization you can gain from using the software.

The amount of time you have to put into the software to optimize it.

Keeping all of our project deadlines, milestones and data in one place for all of our employees to see in one place.

Liquid planner is very intuitive and is great for organizing documents by project and creative tasks to project manage/

The user interface isn't very visually pleasing.

I used LiquidPlanner for project management internally within my agency.

Has all the functionalities I need in an relatively easy to use interface. It allows for some flexibilit and tweaking without making the learning curve too steep. In fact, I am currently satisfied with only a subset of the functionalities but looking forward to integrate LP in my workflow more efficiently.

In the timesheet tab, when adding an existing item, the search functionality it lacking in power. It only searches in the tasks' title, whereas many of the keywords I remember are in the task hierarchy, making it difficult to find anything. I would also like to have a way to visualize how was my time distributed between different items (tasks or (sub-)projects). Something like a pie chart where I can change the time bounds and granularity of items.

Monitoring my time share between all projects. I was able to gain a better insight of how my time is use and better estimate delays for future projects.

User friendly interface, easy to learn how to log hours and make new tasks

Top down structure- everything is dependent which is difficult for multiple projects that are at the same time

Helping log hours spent on various tasks and projects and to see how much time there’s still left to spend.

Flexible structure of tasks, projects and clients makes it easy to order and arrange your work as you need to. You can also easily include tasks on an email to keep track of outside conversations. Time logging is robust and offers flexible options. The vision of LiquidPlanner, as a tool that can predict when work is likely to be done based on the availability of resources and the priority of work is appealing and potentially quite powerful.

The UI is unattractive and feels dated and sluggish to use. I've gotten used to it over the years and it's not a huge deal, but I feel that search-ability and ease of use for various actions could be improved. It's probably time for a UX overhaul. The reliability and accuracy of LiquidPlanner's forecasting is all based on the reliability of the data inputs. This is understandable and probably par for the course among most competing solutions, but the level of effort required to get all the necessary data into the system is high, and any gaps will impair the reliability of the forecasted dates. It would be nice to have an integration with Google Calendar so that any meetings would be picked up and would automatically adjust availability in real time and update the forecast. This would make things easier. Reporting is also somewhat limited although there is an API to do reporting outside the system if needed.

Time tracking and project management in a professional services context. LiquidPlanner has been a foundation of our business for years and has been a reliable way to track time and manage tasks.

It is nice that there are reporting features, but I think that the best part about it is the ability to track threads well.

I don't think that Liquid Planner has an attractive user interface design. Especially, the reporting features seem overwhelming. But it is very helpful / useful if implemented correctly. I just wish it was simpler.

We use Liquid Planner to track internal issues and projects at our company. It has been beneficial to have notes and items accounted for in one place. Also, the ability to update the status of an item by sending an email to that item link is very helpful.

Good to have everything in one single place.

Needs to be more userfriendly and interfaced with other tools would be a nice to have, instead of copying information already existing in other tools.

Interaction is clear and we can better see how others are interacting with things that matter to us.

The timers and time tracking/timesheet. It is very intuitive to use and works well.

- Moving around large blocks of tasks. - Rights management being not in-depth enough (not enough granularity). - Clicking too fast the "Save" button for a timer can often save the time on the previous task that had time added instead of the selected one. This issue has happen on multiple OS and web browsers. Pretty annoying since I click fast / use keyboard shortcut. Therefore, I have to slow myself or have to often backtrack time and estimates due to this really problematic issue, since it would be easy not to notice.

Creating RSDE reports was easier with LP available (when used properly). It can also make planing for project leads and managers easier... *when* they understand how to plan for software projects.

Tracking project tasks and hour allocations

The Gantt chart is difficult to use since it is hourly based.

Workload balance.