Ally.io Reviews & Product Details

Ally.io has a really good UI focussing on how to create Objectives and Key results with pairing and balancing the OKR management. Ally is far better than its competitors like Profit.co with respect to integrations and auto update. It has been helping me and my team track our OKRs and give a clear idea where we stand in terms of our target. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ally.io api are not so strong which leads us not to have a database setup, because of this we are not able to have a dump of the day on our database system. Also anyone can edit anyone's OKRs and obejctive which makes it really difficult to track the changes. Also it is really difficult to have complex calculations and mapping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing for me is the ease of access while updating the OKRs and constant reminders which keeps me on track at the individual and team levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, there is nothing much to dislike; however, sometimes I feel that the fields and modules might be a little difficult to understand and could be a little simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a current user of the product, we find Ally really useful in helping us monitor our OKRs. It's really easy to set up the OKRs, whatever the size of the team and have people monitor it themselves. Ally is simple to use and has lots of cool features that you can turn on or off including reminders to update your OKRS and also an overall weekly summary email on the interactions that week, which our CEO likes to check on to see how much people are engaging with it. Ally has an option to view some templated OKRs which has been really useful when we've been stuck or on sure how to format our OKRs, especially as they are broken down into job and team roles. Another useful feature is the ability to easily edit OKRs as you are going through the quarter. On occasion we may have worded them incorrectly or chosen an incorrect KR but with Ally it's really simple to edit and refocus on what you want to achieve for the rest of the quarter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You do have to make sure that you have checked the time frame that you're monitoring. Occasionally we have misread this and started to enter OKRs before realising that it was monitoring it on an annual basis so we had to go into the settings tab to change this back to quarterly. We haven't fully utilised all the features so aren't necessarily interested in seeing them displayed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capability to divide an OKR is sub-tasks and also do check-ins at sub-task level which in turn rolls back to the umbrella OKR check-in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check-ins can either be via updating progress or adding a comment, rather there should be a more intuitive way like date wise check-ins or reminder for timely check-ins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the transparency in Ally. True to the book "Measure what matters". The entire company can see each other's OKRs and how they are performing.

I like the flexibility in Ally which lets me change the alignment/owners of OKRs anytime. Also, lets me move OKRs between different time periods.

Create a team and invite new team members. The slack integration is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike about Ally. I do not find the JIRA integration very helpful as it just adds noise. Ally (OKR) and JIRA (Scrum) have different objectives IMO.

Implementing OKRs in an org requires a champion inside the company. It is not Ally's fault. It is the effort to adopt a new way of achieving in an organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I tend to have a lot of projects on my list. This really helps me keep up with them, set timelines for them and break my projects down to tasks or smaller projects.

I like that I am able to add more tasks or KRs to each as well, when new challenges arise in one of my main OKRs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like a way to see all projects and OKRs on one single page without having to toggle between the two tabs and open up each QTR or time period. Might be there already and I have just not found this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ally is a great tool to keep all our OKRs in a place, keep checking in on them, and have an overall idea of the company's performance. It has made us as a team more accountable for our objectives which have helped us be more productive overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Projects can be a little tricky to work with. But great software overall. Nothing particular to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a great tool for keeping track to OKRs. I like how it connects to different tools like Slack to give reminders about check ins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd love to have a way to divide the quarter into smaller parts to have a more accurate progress bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's helpful in keeping track of tasks I need to do during the day/week/month. Sometimes work is so busy that I lose things that don't have to be done immediately and this program helps me stay on track with things like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish I could change when they remind me to check-in. Friday afternoons when I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff done before the weekend isn't very ideal. It's also not always helpful with keeping track of that arent numbers based. Sometimes it's difficult to assign a percentage to the work that I need to do so I just don't add it to ally because it doesn't make sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you have defined your objectives, it's easy to keep track of them. However, the hard part is precisely defining the objectives in a way that can be measured and that is meaningful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The whole idea of the product is to provide visibility around the company's objectives. However, I'd be concerned about the possibility of having employees regarded as numbers of an equation or input. It should perhaps, add ways to measure soft skills that also bring value to the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.