LiquidPlannerReviews of liquidplanner.com

Great online project management software!

Typically you see project planning in static, schedule/date driven Gantt chart tools. Liquid Planner turns that method right on it's head! First you set each staff member's commitment in hours per week. Then you load your plans, build dependencies, estimate workload for tasks, assign resources and set you deadline and priority (stack ranked). All the while Liquid Planner is automatically loading your resources and calculating your schedule. If you have a project in danger, Liquid Planner flags the specific tasks in danger. Then you just need to make the standard business trade-offs (change priority, work harder, change scope or re-negotiate deadlines). Oh - and making these changes is very simple and you see the impact of your decision right away in the ENTIRE portfolio. No more resource loading tools, pivot tables or unclear next actions - it's a beautiful thing! This is core our business. We help clients unlock talent and potential in their teams and we have used MANY project planning tools (MS Project Server, EPM Live, MavenLink, TeamworkPM, ProjectManager.com, ConnectWise, OneNote, Excel, 10,000ft, SmartSheet, BaseCamp, Kanban Tool, RallyDev, MS TFS Server, Outlook Tasks, Wrike, Clarizen, Gunius Project, Resource Guru, Podio and others...) Test the company you are looking at with this one question: Are the plan schedules & portfolio built automatically based on what my resources can commit to? What we have found is - NO - most project planning tools are based on a set schedule and deadlines which leaves the project manager to juggle resources and static, date driven schedules to try to meet unrealistic commitments...which is just becomes a compounding problem.

Only have a minute: 1. Putting in multiple dependencies takes too many clicks. MS Project is so much easier. Please number the tasks so I can just put in a comma delimited list as dependents. 2. If you just add bill rates somewhere and multiply it by hours, I can do contract bids with this program. Put a place to enter rates by discipline, along with a summary spreadsheet view for project and subtask cost.

The program has helped slightly with what to work on next. The problem that I is that proximity of the project has more weight than recorded deadlines. It would help that if entered deadlines shifted projects automatically. I have to spend a large portion of time adjusting projects to get it so that projects with hard deadlines farther down the list have prominence.

Love liquid planner. Our team was having a hard time organizing, prioritizing and sharing our progress on a pilot project. We use LP to guide our planning meetings. I would like to find an easy way to share the gant chart with stakeholders and share information in a simple and easy way about the project with those not directly involved with the project

As a veteran of the majority of EPM and work capacity systems SaaS and In-house. I can say that LP has all the virtues of being at the top of the tree in years to come in the industry and the Gartner Quadrant.

Putting a task on hold cause the dependent tasks to be flagged with red markers. This indicates a problem. There is no problem, just a reason to put a hold on a task. Either remove the marker or make it yellow to show that there is an active hold.

I really enjoy the tool. I can't wait for it to manage quotation and billing.