Meisterplan Reviews & Product Details

Best project portfolio management application I've used in 30+ year career. Keeping project management isolated from portfolio management has been a benefit to us rather than using a full PM/PfM/PPM application; the flexibility in letting diverse business units keep their project management practices that work best for their teams and workflows while bringing together top-down planning is a good balance for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much down side. I've led F100 PMO teams that were responsible for portfolio and project management tools and processes, including MS Project, Asana, Clarity PPM and Planview. WHile each tool has strengths, Meisterplan was quickest to onboard and least costly to maintain. It is an elegant solution that permits our focus on portfolio and resource management, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visual tool that packs in a lot of information in a clear visual: Project dates, resource loading and profitability, all at once.

Easy to see the effects of changes (drag an element and the system updates the rest)

Easy to use!

Love the option to consider or exclude certain projects from the calculation, as well as the scenario- planning capacity.

Financials are time-related, so that you can match the inflows with dates or milestones. Great for cash-flow management! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would benefit from some extra customization options (eg: keep milestones fixed once date is in the past, even if the project is prolonged, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a nice fit to help organise our overall portfolio management. Nice visualisation and overall good layout. Easy to use.Good features. enjoy the data export features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No real dislike just observations:

Can get expensive with named ressources metric for users. One foot in task management and one foot out ,i imagine intension for future release will clarify the direction they are taking with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You always see the current allocation of your resources and with simple drag and drop you move projects and recognize the changes for your resources and financials. Great and intuitive user interface for easy project portfolio planning. Especially the inclusion of financials is great! Interfaces with other systems and tools are interesting option for high level of integration in our entire software landscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Planning of part-time resources could be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past I had to use large excel files with complicated formulas to plan next years portfolio and display/predict resource bottlenecks. After countless hours of fixing data and waiting for results to be calculated I'm now using Meisterplan to plan ahead. The best thing: It's fast and displays the impact of changes in the portfolio instantaneously. This leaves me able to focus on the actual problems and find new alternatives.

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There are times I feel the need to break projects down into more detailed structures, e.g. phases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Meisterplan we can setup individual attributes within the complete scope of data, join personalized analysis of project teams, budgets and portfolios. It is fully customizable and can be rightsized to our needs and requirements. According to other known project portfolio management solutions this is one of the big bulletpoints and USPs of Meisterplan.

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Some controls dont sometimes do what they should do and react a little bit sluggish, and please add some new color themes and attributes for some dashboards and diagrams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We took Meisterplan for planning our consultants and external projects and found it quite helpful. It's so easy to assign resources to projects and to see what happens with their capacity. At the end we improved our planning accuracy and the communication with our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are missing an application for our consultant where they can see for which projects they are booked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First, the product is really easy to provision online, no software to install. Just register and get started. I am very impressed with how easy and intuitive it is to manage even complex project portfolios - just drag and drop your resources, timelines, goals and dependencies. Also, the switch from Excel to Meisterplan is seamless as the software makes it very easy to import our existing planning spreadsheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No major issues. I am using Meisterplan on Chrome on my desktop, which works great. If you need to use it on a small mobile device (Safari browser), it can be a bit tricky - the small device form factor isn't ideal for many SaaS apps. But it works great on my iPad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I signed up for the trial, went through the walk-thru and played with the system myself. It seems clear that:

(a) it would be very easy to load this tool up with a portfolio of projects with their labor demands (I fixate on the labor part, but I suppose the point is more generally about resources) and then I could use it to explain what we are planning to use all of our people on (and why we are going to have to make some tough decisions about what we take on when). I would just start with roles (not named individual contributors). This would be a simple way to get a lot of value within hours.

(b) this is a cool system that is nipping at the heels of full-on PPM systems. Check out the financials stuff and the goal-based portfolios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was nothing I disliked. I'm sure they could do more to help me use this across the whole management team, but I haven't looked that closely at what they already have there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Saas solution Meisterplan is very easy to implement and use. The interactive planning and allocation of resources and project is really easy to use and saves a lot of time and efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to have more operational project management features like task planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.