Helix Plan Reviews & Product Details - Page 2

- Tracking Hour Actuals

- Dashboards are clean and concise

- Multi Project System

- Task Tracking is simple and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- We have yet to work together in finding a solution for using Hansoft's Bug Tracking System

- There are some issues in regards to Actuals vs Work Remaining that have been address in upcoming patches, hopefully the patch will solve most of the issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Collaborative project management

* Collaborative task ownership

* Supports creative and technical workflows

* Git and P4 integrations

* Reports

* Supports wide range of working disciplines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Accuracy of reports e.g. Really need to be able to assign tasks to a per minute level.

* In Gantt mode, if 2 or more tasks takes less than a day to complete Hansoft, in gantt mode will simply make a less than 1 day task finish in one day and line up the next less than 1 day task to continue the next day.

* Responsiveness and transparency of new features/fixes or addressing user concerns and imrpovement requests

* Ease of Integration to other third party tools software e.g. Git, P4, etc

* Price point for making custom/own integrations

* Lack of in-depth and continuous video/webinars just have a look at www.allegorthimic.com youtube channel and can see the complete difference, they are actively always engaging the community of users and really really helping them to master the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The dashboard 's my absolute favourite, it beats the mundane excel graphs sheets with a dynamic dashboard, that gets updated when the data is updated.

Bug Report/QA has been a great tool for the QA to keep a track on, it records enough details to inform the team what exactly the issue is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customised Column hidden in Planning is visible after the report is made from the product backlog and I cannot block product backlog visibility from users

Gannt:

Cannot record hours under "duration", instead, it record as days which makes it difficult to track the exact time. Yes, initially you can log in as hours, but when you move the Gannt bar, the hours automatically changes to days and you cannot switch to hours.

* I understand Hansoft is for agile and yes its a hybrid, but it does cause of us a lot of difficulties when we have to make an accurate report on the actual man days.

Agile:

"work remaining" gets wiped off from the record as soon as the task is completed, can not track what was inputted. The only way to retrieve is to deep dive into the task history, which is a nightmare if you have lots of tasks to decipher.

Kanban Pipeline:

Is good if you know how to use it, but be cautious if you switch workflow from kanban piple to default, you will lose all your data record in the kanban pipeline, which makes it very inconvenient.

To Do List

I wish the task could be displayed the same way as it is under planning and not individually, as this can be intimidating at times for some users to see the unclustered tasks, it doesn't look organised and can be confusing when users are assigned lots of multiple task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how user friendly it can be. There is a bit of a learning curve but everything feels intuitive. Like for the most part when i want to do something there is a natural path to follow that makes sense.

How easy it is to track large scale projects is also very nice, having multiple team silos in each project is quite easy to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't think the graphs are as customization as they could be. For example, stacked graphs could have a more in-depth functionality for showing different pieces of data that follow themes. For example, I have 2 different columns in a bar graph, and 3 pieces of data. I want the first column to be DataSet1, and I want the second column to be DataSet2 & DataSet3. At the moment, the only way to do that is to create a new tag for them and separate it that way. It would be nice to have that functionality built in.

The Board mode is rough all around. The controls feel strange too, like how using the scroll wheel will zoom in. I'd also like the ability to filter tasks through a keyword or other filters, instead of only a Sprint. If there is a large task with many subtasks fitting into the Sprint, I cannot plan each of the tasks in board view and check the progress that way.

There should be more ways to customize the built-in Capacity tracker. I think that it's fantastic at what it does, but it railroads users into that method. Allowing us to do things like add Actuals/Time Spent to the capacity planner would help with agile resource allocation as things come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to quickly create and organize tasks. Extremely easy to build out the backlog and break epics down into tasks and commit them to the sprints. Very useful to break down people working on projects/add in vacation days/etc. Estimating and recording work per task was relatively painless. On a more project-management side, to be able to get in and adjust people's hours dedicated to the project was useful. The ability to also have the project view in a more gantt-style just to see how the schedule would fall. The ability to create additional projects and link tasks between projects was also useful, especially when we wanted to have a "high-level" version of the project that was primarily tracking the main stories, rather than all the tasks (to present to the executive level). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unable to set up Hansoft as Project > Teams > Sprints > Tasks with cross-dependencies, so we had to set it up as Sprints > Project > Tasks and have all the teams set up inside the same sprint. It wasn't super easy to link task dependencies to each other that I found when using it. Trying to schedule out people's time off was near impossible, to the point we stopped trying and just reduced their time dedicated to the project by the amount of time they were taking off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the visual reporting capabilities out of the box, it's quite easy to build a good looking report to provide various pieces of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The input of data leaves a lot to be desired. As well as the flexibility of how to manipulate that data for various PM purposes. Simple things like capacity planning do not make sense to provide an accurate high level representation of how resources are being allocated and where there's capacity to take on more. Also, to get the data we need, there's a lot of administrative overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We now use Hansoft for all of our project management and the metrics that we can pull from it are very helpful in targeting what our weaknesses are and where our processes are working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of our primary reasons for purchasing Hansoft was due to its Git integration. However, we discovered that it does not support any vendors such as BitBucket or GitHub which we need to link projects to commits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hansoft's powerful support for planning and visualisation simplifies desicion making and creates a transparency for all parts of the organisation where the tool is used. Hansoft is flexible and easy to adapt to the needs of the organisation or project. It's the only tool I've come across my 20+ years in SW development that is revered by developers, project managers and line management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support to export the timeline view is missing. Screenshots is a workaround but support to make PDF's would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the most basic level, Hansoft was easy to pick up and enter user stories and tasks. The team loved the ease at which we can move tasks to different sprints as well the transparency it brought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My biggest dislike would have the be the steep learning curve after the initial setup. There are quite a few different options, so getting familiar with them, and learning how to set them up correctly and efficiently was difficult form me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easiness to create user stories. Easy to change order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User Interface, leaves something to wish for.. I find it hard to navigate in the product. Editing stories can be a bit.... cumbersom. Too small boxes.

I am not that happy with direct saving (making it hard to revert changes). Search function is not that good to use.

Only using Story points has its backdraws as we sometimes want to specify days instead.

Integration with our other tools (mainly code versioning) is lacking. Having a primary ID (that do not change) in the main view would have helped a lot when referencing stories from outside. The URLs include the header (that might change).

Creating iterations, and set date for them, is a hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.