Businessmap

Pros

Is a customizable platform to several user profiles.
Is useful to manage the portfolio and the helpdesk issues.

Cons

Sometimes the excessive options to configure maybe a little confused.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

The speed of responses for support are measured in minutes which can include both step by step instructions, bespoke alterations to software mechanisms, or fixes. The tool they provide is top of the class and the preferred choice in Rolls-Royce.

Cons

I'm genuinely yet to find a fault worthy to report about Businessmap.

Pros

It's very flexible and mighty and has good automatization. Also the pricing is reasonable.

Cons

Biggest Bummer: NO MOBILE INTEGRATION and their Product Manager tells that it won't come at all. As a CTO I am constantly considering migrating to something else. Can't just use the tool on the go.
Also its user interface has a lot of innecessary whitespace and no intuitive list view. To use lists you need to open modals and filter. A bit strange.

Pros

Shot learning curve, complete set functionality including metrics, easy progress panel creation, easy panel connection and easy power view of up-to-date company status.
Integration with other tools made easy, good up-to-date knowledge base and resources. Additional optional services on demand and regular software updates.
Custom fields for task, issues and initiative tracking, roadmap and time panels included.

Cons

A few working samples would help the customer get the advantage of desiring the tool. You need a basic notion of kanban that is available on the knowledge base

Pros

The tool is tailored for teams working with Kanban for Knowledge work methodology, as we are.
The tool is simple to start with but containing most of the required features when the team is maturing into Kaban.

Cons

The fact that the initiatives and cards are treated differently and not sharing the same features.
Is not easy to share a workflow from one board into another, this is only possible with the management workspace.
The planning view is not yet usable for us, in our case we would like to plan the different phases (columns) of a project in there, we haven't yet found a way which doesn't include creating separate card for each phase.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

The Businessmap Kanban tool is the Rolls Ryce of Kanban tools. It fully enables any team or business to improve on flow in every way, thanks to the many features and possibilities available.

Cons

If I was forced to find a con then it would be that there is no free version available for individuals for basic use. Personally I would love to use Kanban for daily home life and Businessmap would be nice to use on a basic kanban level.

Pros

Flexibility, usability, comprehensiveness and simplicity.

Cons

Just small governance adjustments more targeted to traditional models.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Businessmap

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

Easy to use and extract relevant information.

Cons

Some updates bring inconsistent reports.

Pros

Perfect kanban tool to manage and measure valuestreams and teamwork and to connect them with strategic goals. Very easy to use, great frontend and many great functions and options to measure and visualize the progress on all different company levels.

Cons

The only thing we are missing is a better visualization of the connection (hierarchy) between initiatives on different company/board levels.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

It is powerful and you can create automated workflow and so on.

Cons

It is visually easy to navigate and you can create custom project structure.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

Its really well made and easy to use once you understand the methodology.

Cons

I think it should have an unlimited Sandbox option so we can develop without limits and can go crazy with business rules to set up an amazing system that if we like, then we just have to upgrade our subscription to how many new rules you actually need. With some sort of "Import to main account".

Maybe making a Sandbox user per Business Account so we can Dev outside of the main frame and those business rules don't apply to what we have working right now.

I am sure if you do this I would make a much bigger and complex system since now I can't freely test out new things, now I am limited.

Pros

Consumer centricity, great tool to look at bottleneck of your processes. Very helpful support and detailed user guides and

Cons

In the beginning the journey can be scary and if you don't work with a tool at least on a weekly basis, it won't show you all the benefits it can offer

Pros

I really like to use this software now as this give me best optimisation and makes my job easy, i really am in awe of this.

Cons

A bit of automation type of function could be better, but that is not a big deal.

Pros

There isn't any business process, workflow or procedure that can not be replicated within Kanbanize. I've changed my approach in business transformations to get the clients up and on the tool as quickly as possible. The design construct of Kanbanize provides just the right amount of 'guidance' for the users, and allows me the opportunity to engage on an as required basis when clients stray away from basic kanban principles.

Cons

There's very little I don't like about Kanbanize. Continuing to extend the recent deployment of OKRs to allow connection between strategy and execution into the dashboard space looks to be quite exciting.

Pros

Easy to useusage of different flight levelsflexible tool for kanban, scrum, even classic projectplanning or stage and gate processes can be displayed from beginning to end

Cons

missing to add a new lane for a task within an existing swimlane on the timeline workflow in between existing lanes (not new swimlane)

Alternatives Considered

Pros

User friendly for reality analysis and avoid assumption,

Cons

I recommend the tool it is good to monitoring work

Pros

Is is a good software which helps in planning and implementation of project management, with analyzing all data accordingly.

Cons

No cons we find so far in the platform, very useful and robust platform

Pros

1) Feature development is well thought out. Rather than adding to visual clutter, features are constantly refined to allow simple visual management. This is harder than it sounds and is not often achieved in agile software development.
2) Regular releases. Releases are on time and only 1 month away.
3) Great customer support. Real people answering your questions and looking at possible bugs. Replies are quick and direct.
4) Price is very reasonable.

Cons

1) Break in subscription value. They just recently divided their subscribers into two tiers leaving original users that do not upgrade their subscription contract to only original features. This is a bad mistake and breaks the premise of SaaS. If a company needs additional revenue they should be raising the cost of the subscription for all in a seamless manner and not bifrucate their user base.
2) Metrics are well developed but it is not easy to get started. Additional thought needs to be given on how to get metrics in the hands of even basic users.

Pros

- The software is extremely flexible and supports almost any use-case
- It is super easy for people to get started (even if they have never used Kanban before or are not in IT)
- It is not just another Kanban tool and right from the start it is clear how Kanbanize (the company) is trying to change the way we run our businesses (e.g. by supporting and evangelising Portfolio Kanban)
- The reporting engine is top-notch and provides both overview and many drill-down opportunities

Cons

- Individuals often are role players on multiple boards. Currently there is no easy way to show all tasks assigned to an individual and to properly prioritise daily workload.
- No integration with their personal Kanban tool flow-e exists at the moment

Pros

The features that I treasure the most speak to analytics that guide project managers to be able to do earned value management. This will answer the project sponsors concerns with adequate detail and guide on a proceed or kill a project.

Cons

The way you have to memorize steps can be confusing

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Businessmap

Switched From

Pros

The ability to understand the Portfolio Mananagement in real time excecution. Plus the leading kpis that help us to understand our bottlenecks and were we should improve to increase throughput.

Cons

A desired feature would be the integration with online boards, like MIRO.

Pros

One of the thing that I liked most of Kanbanize is its simplicity and friendly way to use it. You don't need any (or almost any) help to start creating their Kanban boards. Indeed, it is so intuitive to build new swim lames and cards.
Furthermore, Kanbanize always notify me about the new features as soon as they released them.

Cons

Kanbanize can add more metrics but my point of view is biased about helping managers to understand very well the power of using Lean metrics.

Pros

The tool allows WIP control by columns, or by lanes, or by columns and lanes, making it possible to limit the work according to the necessary prioritization in each class of service.

Cons

The business roles have improved a lot, which makes the job a lot easier, but we still have some points that need to be improved, for example, when a card is moved, the related cards on other boards could also be impacted

Pros

Kanbanize is a simple to use, nice to experience, friendly to interact software to realize quickly and in an effective way a REAL kanban board. It has a lot of features and it is able to scale in enterprise, without becoming difficult for a small business or for a single user on personal projects. The support is friendly and always asking for feedbacks from users, to continuously improve the product.

Cons

Missing some integrations (mail clients, ifttt, integromat...)

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Businessmap

Reasons for Switching to Businessmap

Pros

Immediate Use, Easy to Customize for Advanced Users, Very Powerful Analytics

Cons

Pricing is very reasonable, but there is no option for a Personal User only a small team.