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LiquidPlanner Reviews

User Rating

4.3/5 (Based on 635 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    46.5%
  • Very Good

    39.8%
  • Average

    9.9%
  • Poor

    3%
  • Terrible

    0.8%

User Sentiments

Robust Project Planning, Accurate Time Tracking, Easy to Use Interface, Extensive Customization

Limited Mobile Functionality, Complex User Interface, Lack of Seamless Integrations, Cumbersome Data Upload

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Review Summary

Overall, users appreciate LiquidPlanner's user-friendly interface, customizable features, and ability to manage complex projects efficiently. Many reviewers highlight LiquidPlanner's ease of use and find it particularly valuable for project planning and resource management. Additionally, users praise the software's flexibility, allowing them to tailor it to their specific needs. However, some reviewers have mentioned occasional technical glitches and a learning curve associated with fully utilizing the software's capabilities.

Pros

  • Visual, interactive, and intuitive Gantt charts for project planning and scheduling.
  • Dynamic resource management to efficiently allocate and track team members.
  • Realtime project tracking and progress monitoring with actuals vs. estimates.
  • Collaboration tools for smooth communication and feedback sharing among team members.

Cons

  • Steep learning curve for new users, especially those unfamiliar with project management concepts.
  • Limited customization options, which may restrict advanced users' needs.
  • Occasional performance issues reported by some users, especially with largescale projects.
  • Integration with thirdparty applications might require additional expertise and effort.

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Reviews
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Marc L

July 21, 2023 Source: G2.com
"It's a dynamic project management perfected to embrace change."
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

It employees priority based scheduling.

It allows users to estimate task duration as ranges rather than fixed values.

It offers robust resources management capabilities.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

It allows use to resources availability, track workloads, and allocate resources across multiple projects.

It a great tool.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has a built-in time tracking functionality, making it easier for teams to monitor how much time is being spent on tasks and project.

It's well suited for managing complex projects with many dependencies and uncertainties.

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Kevin K

November 12, 2022 Source: G2.com
"The Only Project Management Software Recognizes Murphy"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

All project management tasks have one true element - their estimates are always wrong. It could take less time, or it could take more. LP is the only tool that lets you add a range of time for the estimate. This creates a cumulative (but not additive) range for the project to complete - a project buffer - that allows the manager to decide the risks and rewards of choosing a promise date. If you want to use the average date using a typical tool? That's a 50-50 chance in that software. That's why users manipulate that data because they already know the answer will be wrong. LP allows you to use a confidence range to understand planning completion better.

The ability to easily add dependencies between tasks, set priorities by order, and not overburden resources are great features. Determining Constrained resources by their utilization over a period of time allows for decisions on timing and subordination. The analysis can be performed quickly, allowing for multiple "what if" analyses that keep team members focused, on track (especially at the beginning of a project), and informed.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

There are currently two versions being used, with the Classic version having some of the Critical Path (and, by extension, the Theory of Constraints Critical Chain) methods necessary for Continuous Improvement and Planning Improvement. Critical Path should be coming to the new version, but it's a conflict between the features and clean appearance of the latest version with the powerful analysis methods of the past for the time being.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

The most fundamental problems in business have to do with lead time, throughput, and inventory. Project management software may only be about product development time, and LP does a fine job. But in my work, LP is an Engineering To Order tool, allowing my clients to schedule many short projects, usually from a template. This often requires giving quick, reliable delivery dates. I have also used it as a production scheduling tool - small projects that may only last several days but are highly repeatable and highly variable. Having production LP schedules means I can leverage MRP systems to create supplier orders based on the demand of what goes into production.

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Elizabeth D

November 11, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Great, Affordable Task Tracking"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

I love that LiquidPlanner is so flexible in its applications. We're able to share files, communicate with clients, and keep track of both open and closed jobs.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

I do wish the experience of clients (portal guests, in the technical terminology) was more in tune with that of administrators so that we could more easily instruct clients in navigation - and so they have more flexibility in navigation.

Recommendations to others considering LiquidPlanner:

Don't be afraid to reach out. While they can't always answer the questions right away, customer service is usually very willing to help.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

LiquidPlanner gives everyone in our office a centralized repository to see what jobs are in the queue, what's coming up, and what everyone is working on. It's invaluable especially when someone is out of town or sick and someone else needs to pick up a task or two.

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Marie V

September 25, 2022 Source: G2.com
"" Professional and Executive Online Projects Management"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

1. Easy of deployment and usability.

2. Intrusive interface.

3. Prioritising projects.

4. Agile online projects managing.

5. Team collaboration via instant live messaging.

6. Project budgeting.

7. Adding assignees and tasks scheduling.

8. Project analysing and reporting.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

Nothing to dislike since it has all we expected.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides single source of information for all projects.

Reduces cost and saves time.

Improve team productivity on the go.

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Anonymous User

August 24, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Try the new version of Liquidplanner.....you wont be disappointed !"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

Having worked with the Classic version of LP for several years, I recently transitioned to the new version - the application is well structured, extremely robust, and contains all the key elements of LP

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

I would love to be able to forward tasks directly into the new version of LP - especially from either email or MS Teams

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

LP is brilliant at ensuring that resources are properly engaged - in addition, the ability to ASAP prioritise a task at project, package or workspace is genius. LP provides Project Managers with confidence that delivery dates are realistic

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Nynke B

August 23, 2022 Source: G2.com
"The perfect tool for agencies"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

Project folders vs work packages to schedule tasks.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

Lack of analysis tool for custom fields.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needing to schedule tasks from different projects into one single work package. This is something not a lot of tools do (well).

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Julian H

August 23, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Finally a project planner that helps you map progress of your plans to the real world"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

This product tracks the scheduling of project resources for multiple projects in real-time. It keeps you informed of how things are likely to run, no matter what else is happening.

Say I have a team of people who work on different aspects of a development project, and I have 4 projects that are running with different priorities, but some need to run parallel, as best as possible. What happens if one project gets a scope change that adds a lot of new features? What if one project gets put on hold? What if one project needs to be at a certain stage by a set date (trade show for instance?) What if a key worker gets covid and can't do anything for a week? This app deals with all these kinds of situations. While always giving you the tools to have the best understanding of how things will go in the future, given the progress to date and the other constraints on people's time.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

It's a relatively new product, still. The basic must-have features are here already, and all work well together. But things are still a little light at the moment. There have always been workarounds for the one or two things I felt have been missing, but I'll be happier when these things get dealt with more directly. And at the current rate of adding features, I expect this will be soon.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It takes regular project planning, and solves the problem you have when somebody asks the big question - "when do you think you can have this work completed?" as well as it can be answered at any stage in a project. It means that you can quote lead times for delivery of work based on real, complex interactions of work and resources rather than just mental estimations and fudge factors. No matter what has been changing.

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Anonymous User

August 23, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Best project task management and workload planning software I've used"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

I love being able to edit task assignments and change task/project priority with only a few mouse clicks as this allows our organization to answer the question "what if..." quickly and easily. The snapshot workload view is also great for quickly seeing who is overloaded and who has available time to help share the load.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

So far I can't complain about much. It would be good to see workload beyond the 90day timeframe (180days would be great). Also having the ability to create dashboards for individuals outside the organization would be helpful (not critical though).

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to effectively plan our engineering design team workload into the future so we can make appropriate staffing decisions is critical to our success. LiquidPlanner allows us to predict when our design team will be either overloaded or slow and we can make proactive decisions months ahead of time rather than being purely reactionary.

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Bradley B

August 23, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Liquid Planner has changed the way we manage our projects, and our resources."
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

Liquid Planner offers a way to plan your resources in a "liquid", always changing way. The alternative products out there only let you set hard dates, and are difficult to maintain and modify. This product fluctuates properly with our ever-changing priorities and needs.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

The pricing could be a little better, though in our case we feel like we are getting a return for our investment. I wish there was a better "Calendar view" to see who is where when, but they are continuously adding updates, so that may be an up-and-coming feature.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before LiquidPlanner, we were never sure how many resources we would have available for an upcoming project. We simply managed our projects on a day-to-day, or at best, weekly basis. With LiquidPlanner we can plan our projects months in advance, and have a great understanding of which projects are getting out when.

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Kevin S

August 23, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Automatic Adjustment Based on Progress or Changed Priorities"
What do you like best about LiquidPlanner?

How do you set your team up for success in a complex LiquidPlanner project? Simply have them organize tasks by priority and make best-/worst-case estimates.

Restacking priorities instantly recalcs the schedule even for highly interdependent projects.

And the team's track record on prediction--say, they're consistently beating best case estimates--adjusts the schedule to limit slack and moves up expected finish. Also the opposite, of course, when completion trends towards worst case.

What do you dislike about LiquidPlanner?

I dislike having to record daily progress for everyone if I don't have enough sway (or seats) to let team members do it themselves, but LiquidPlanner enforces constant vigilance, which is a good thing.

If something slips (or progress made is not recorded), LiquidPlanner scares you into action by lighting up the display to highlight all the impacted tasks and newly distanced end dates.

What problems is LiquidPlanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can keep an accurate schedule even as an independent contractor on projects with shifting priorities and erratic estimates.

My job is easier and teams are more productive because their input matters and the impact of their performance is transparently reflected by LiquidPlanner.

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