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Overall: A pretty good experience.

Just the planning and overview for everybody.

More visibility into shared resources

We use LP to manage multiple concurrent client projects. With several project managers sharing resources, it is vital to have visibility into resource availability and potential schedule conflicts. Because of the extremely long duration of our projects (with heavy work in the beginning, then intermittently for months to years afterwards), it took us some time to develop a workflow that would allow for prioritization of individual tasks rather than projects as a whole. But we've come a long way from using stand alone MS project files! Time tracking directly on the task has also been very beneficial for more accurate tracking and billing of work.

Comprehensive project management tool for collaborative teams

Liquid Planner provides a broad overview of all your projects and great visibility over employees' work loads. There is definitely a learning curve and adoption takes some time.

Powerful tool for team collaboration

Overall, I enjoy LP. The email notifications are superb, the timesheet view, the work view, the ability to "Favorite" views - there is a lot to like about it.

One of the best toold for managing your projects online

All our clients are happy and we could deliver the best to them with the help of LiquidPlanner

Liquidplanner more than conventional project planning

This application does much more that traditional project management for us. We not only manage work, but also resources like staff availability which makes this a huge plus.

Where is the O365 Integration

You guys need to write an integration with O365 - we're seriously thinking about looking to move as we need those integrations. Companies like LiquidPlanner that want to remain seeing themselves as a competitor of Microsoft as opposed to a value add are going to limit their audience and potential. The walled garden approach no longer makes sense in today's economy.

Good idea - Could use better execution

I enjoy it and will continue to use it, but sometimes it can be confusing with using the software for so many different projects and events. Better organization or streamlining might be nice.

Indispensable to our organization

LiquidPlanner is vital to the daily workings of our company. We were able to tailor it to fit our specific needs and it has been very easy for our employees to use. It has simplified our workflow and given us a repository for all of the information and scheduling that we rely on to do our job.

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We use LiquidPlanner successfully for time tracking and resource management for large projects. It works very well.

Good Enough

Great web application but...

It solved one of the biggest problems for us, managing over 90 projects at once with a small team of ~5 people. To allow our team to manage task, provide updates and work from there. It reduced management time as well.

Great for Project Tracking

We are a design/build firm and liquid planner is used to track the project from start to finish; including scheduling priorities in the machine shop. Its been a great piece of software that has proved invaluable to our business.

Best Software for Time Tracking

Great software and customer support and experience!

Great Tool

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Does everything we need in one place

We turned to LiquidPlanner as we needed a way to handle a lot of projects and clients in one place, with multiple members of staff assigned to each, all tracking time against different tasks within a project.

LP enables us to analyse staff performance, billable hours logged against a task, project or client and apportion resources accordingly. It's central to our business and also means we can provide transparency and accuracy to clients when reporting on what work we have done for them.

Our staff find it helps them to manage their workload, collaborate and understand dependencies easily. It takes a little time for new starters to get used to clicking the button to time everything they do, but the benefits are enormous for us as an agency.

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Im 100 % satisfied with LiquidPlanner love the ease of use.

UI Nightmare, LP has a lot of capabilities but they are hard to locate and ugly to look at

It's best suited for people involved in very detailed multi-person projects and does this job decently (but is still horrible to look at and interact with). I'm sure it does more than I am even aware of, as I try to stay away from LP as much as possible.

4 years of LQP

is good

Few things to note about Liquid Planner

Must try this to manage your project activities.

Long term user of Liquid Planner

I use Liquid Planner to manage all my technology projects across the entire organization. The tool has worked out very well with my project manager and the people who are executing the projects.

Multi-dimensional program with the ability to solve complex problems

Great for projects with a few contributors

Liquid Planner has been a great entry into a project planning software and hours reporting systems.

The transparency of the project gives great confidence to all

We are using LiquidPlanner (LP) in almost every project. Besides tracking and reporting progress inside, one of the best things is to keep our clients updated regarding their projects in real time. Such transparency has huge benefit to both side, the clients and the development team.

For clients, they may gain confidence from the project progress at any time. Especially, many of them are start-ups. They relies on the project to develop their business and talk further with the potential investors. The real time update helps to plan their future in a more accurate way.

For the team, LP is used to get real time feedback from clients. Any blocks may be identified and solved in time. And we know what we did is what the clients need and does bring business value to them.

In general, with LP, all the parties around the project get the transparency and are given the great confidence of the success.

Website Marketing Business uses LiquidPlanner for all work

It is great. They are easy to reach and always very helpful

Best project management software.

I would not work without LiquidPlanner anymore.

Backlog included agile & waterfall project methodology

Though it may seem limiting in terms of things you can do initially, the deeper you get into the program the deeper you can see things to do much like any program similar to Microsoft excel

From An Interesting Idea To An Essential Tool

I am the principal of a medium sized engineering design consultancy, working mostly in the construction and design worlds. We work on some very challenging and innovative projects, where team work and complexity are everyday issues. We had struggled for many years trying to manage our design work with spreadsheets, project management software, time sheets, etc and so on. We always started off with a great plan, but then found it impossible to keep that plan up to date as projects progressed, and then ended up making do.

When we found Liquid Planner we were intrigued by the on-line accessibility and by it allowing multiple simultaneous users; everything could be centralised off site, and could be accessed out of hours from anywhere. We took the plunge in January 2014 and switched everyone over to Liquid Planner overnight. We developed a simple easy to use system for organising all of our projects in one single space, and it worked straightaway. We developed packages for each person, what we call Now Boxes, in which they shuffle their own priorities whenever they want. We incorporate dependencies to tasks, and so warnings pop up when staff move things that adversely affect task sequences. Time sheets are entered accurately in real time, and everything worked well from the off.

We then moved on to another level and, with some simple customising of the fields relating to tasks, we used Liquid Planner to re-invent our quality assurance system. As structural engineers checking and quality is an essential part of our work, and with some simple tweaks Liquid Planner become our quality assurance system, and has been approved as such by our British Standard Institution ISO 9001 inspectors. In fact they were amazed at how easy and immediate our system was.

Clicking and dragging on the gant chart would be nice. Also the space devoted to obscure things like date shift windows would be better spent on making diary views more accessible.

We love it and are always singing its praises; it is like a member of our team.

Liquid Planner stands apart

I have used LiquidPlanner for managing R&D labs, New Product Development programs, and smaller project management efforts. It is easy to train others on and is great for tracking project progress and actual effort.

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Better than more applications I have used to track tasks.

Priorities Set Right

LP helps us manage inter and intra project priorities and tasks

A valuable tool to allow us to see the full breadth of ongoing projects and their inter-relation/dependencies

The best project management software I've ever worked with

LiquidPlanner is a very complete software for managing projects, time spent, people, clients and analyzing the overall performance of your company. It has a lot of different functionalities. You'll probably never use all of them, since the system is so complete it has different features for different needs of all kinds of companies. We work with advertising and LP is invaluable in our day to day life. Customer support is rarely needed, but when it is, they are fast, polite and helpful. Having compared LP to other project management software, I can say I've never found one that adapts itself to our needs as much as this one.

Easy to shift plans around

How Did We Function Before Liquid Planner

Liquid Planner has been a tremendous help with our scheduling issues. It allows everyonre to see notes and tasks in one spot. It allows for easy documentation and provides great organization.

Innovative Time Management & Planning

We use LiquidPlanner for all employees to organize "direct charge" and overhead tasks. The estimating and prioritization approach is different from traditional project scheduling and captures real-time dynamics as you work. The program has helped us manage large task sets, discover organizational issues more quickly, and we have yet to tap into the more advanced features.

Excellent Project Management Program

There is a lot of keep track of as a project manager, but Liquid Planner helps keep it all neat and organized to prevent losing items through the cracks.

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I have a hard time inputting my time to accurately track my time, but I feel like it does a great job to assign tasks and make sure they get completed.

The best on the Market

I use LiquidPlanner for more than two years and I'm happy with that. It helped me to estimate how much time do I need for every task due to I'm performing very different kinds of tasks each requiring different amount of time. Than it's easier to estimate time needed for tasks similar to those done before.
It also helps a lot to track time worked for different projects and quicly fill timesheets at the end of month.

Does exactly what I need it to do. Could do some things better.

Pros:

1. As a service provider, I find it incredibly useful to manage all client projects and tasks through a single system. Invoicing my clients, which used to take 8 to 10 hours every month, now takes half an hour. The time tracking at each task is fantastic, as is the ability to have different billing rates for different customers. We integrated the downloadable timesheet CSV file into a database to assign our own invoice numbers and produce consolidated reports.

2. Our team is geographically dispersed, with members in different time zones and working different schedules. We use LP to collaborate on tasks, capture notes, and track documents. We've recently started to use Google Docs more than Microsoft Office documents, which we link through each task's "Links" section. We've found this to be a great extension to LP. At the same time, we still often upload documents, especially for version management and published documents.

Cons:

We manage a lot of tasks across a small team. The more tasks we have, the more difficult it is becoming to stay on top of them. The search feature has improved dramatically over the past few months. So that has helped a lot. But, we still find ourselves on occasion creating duplicate tasks, because the original isn't immediately apparent.

The single sheet approach to a task has it's own pros and cons. But in my opinion, having separate tabs for "Task", "Planning", "Notes", etc would be a better approach. It would be even better to have flexibility to add custom tabs, so each task could have multiple note fields on their own tabs. I would use this to have a tab for Contacts, for example, and another for general notes. Ideally, this could be set up as a template, so that every task I create would automatically have the tabs I want.

Managing task dependencies is cumbersome.

Export tasks to PDF is cumbersome (or maybe I don't know how to use it right).

LiquidPlanner - a good tool for project management

Since we use LiquidPlanner, it became much easier to see the time worked on each project and improve our evaluation method.

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My issues with the software were more how we used it, than with the software itself.

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Customer support is poor.

Cumbersome & More Expensive Than Most

- Like the Flexibility
- Swifted Away from LiquidPlanner to a More Time-Efficent Application, But Gave Up Several Advance Features in the Trade-Off
- Too Expensive for Multiple Users on the Same Team
- Adoption Process for New Team Members Extremely Time Consuming

Awesome Project Planning Software

We have been using Liquid Planner for nearly 5 years and have really put it through its paces as we load it up with large projects consisting of hundreds of tasks. We now consider it to be an indispensable tool for managing our projects. It is very reliable, fast and offers extreme flexibility in managing our often changing priorities.

A complicated management software

If I can spend more time everyday on a project management software, I might give it more stars, I have my workload on a daily base, it is a challenge to figure out the (secret) features Liquid Planner offer. My focus is with the project itself, a complicated system should be able to help me to finish my job, not demanding my time to get familiar with the software.

This is great Project Management software

I was able to learn how to use LiquidPlanner pretty easy and it has awesome resources to use. It has a flexible schedule that allows us to use it for what we need. It's an awesome tool for any team!

Liquid Planner for Content Writing and Site Partners

My company used LP for years as a way to track our progress and tasks for site partners and websites. It would point out our contributions and specifically tell our bosses and our partners what was receiving the most attention. It was a great way to distribute tasks, monitor progress, and keep track of my to-do list.