Float

The best app for planning and working with a team

Kommentare: I can't imagine working without Float.

Vorteile:

Clear, minimalistic and great interface with awesome interactions/microinteractions. Integrations with tools like Asana, calendars, collaborations with the team, and simplicity of use! Fantastic mobile apps.

Nachteile:

I don't have any points to add here, I have not had any problems using Float - maybe a desktop application for Mac would be useful ;)

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Trello

Warum Float gewählt wurde: Wrike was a very complicated tool - it made work difficult instead of organising it

Zuvor genutzte Software: Wrike

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float: Simplicity, clean interface, clear workflow, integrations

Solid Product

Kommentare: It's helped us grow a lot and help more people. It's really helped us spend less time doing admin work and more time doing real work and helping people. It takes some getting used to and commitment but it's beautifully designed, intuitive, and a big part of our success.

Vorteile:

How easy it is to use. It's easy to jump in and also complicated enough that you can really use some advanced features.

Nachteile:

There are of course small issues here and there but none worth mentioning at all. It's truly a great product and really helpful.

Easy to use and understand

Vorteile:

Easy to use and understand. The new introduction of a mobile app has been great as you can now see your schedule wherever you are. The notifications system is good and allows you to be notified of changes immediately.

Nachteile:

Our business allows multiple consultants to be assigned to specific work. In Float, you are unable to easily find other consultants working on the same project as you are without manually searching for it.

Great value. Lots of potential

Kommentare: I've been using CETA scheduling software for the last 4 years in big VFX companies and I must say that Float is not there yet but is actually getting broadly comparable. In the last 4 months that I introduced it into my new team it's proved to be quite useful to keep track of the progression of our projects. During these months I've seen that it has already improved in many areas that I'm excited to see what comes next.
I can see it can become a really powerful software.

Vorteile:

There aren't may softwares that let you schedule a team in such an easy and organised way. I think most softwares nowadays are too complex and make you spend more time organising tasks than actually working on them. Float is so clear and simple you can actually use it to manage big projects without spending too much time on it.

Nachteile:

It's getting better, but it would be very useful if we could: - Right click on a pencil and be able to copy it over into a different person. - Book more than one person on the same project (for example if two workers are on the same project because one of them is doing a training but you don't want to charge twice for that time). - Lately when I try to schedule more than 1 project in one day on the same person I get a message saying I can't schedule anyone for more than 24 hours) even if I'm not exceeding the 8 normal working hours. It'd be great if that could be fixed. - It'd be good if milestones were more visible. - I think reports should be a bit less complicated and more visual. - It'd be really helpful if you could group projects up in folders when you go to the Projects tab as at the moment we have like... 45 different projects going on and although we color code them it's difficult to organise all of them. -I'd like to have more than only three types of view when looking at our schedules a part from 'Days, 'Weeks' and 'Months'. It'd be great if you could 'Archive' users as well as projects. So when a worker it's not working at the company anymore and you don't want to pay for it on Float you can kind of 'Archive' him (so you are not able to book him on anything but still you can see him on the boards so you don't loose what it's been scheduled on him.)

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Flow Production Tracking, monday.com und Asana

Warum Float gewählt wurde: Monday has too many tools that you don't really get to use when scheduling. It also doesn't have an overview of projects as clear as the one Float has.

Zuvor genutzte Software: monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float: Its the closes to CETA software that we could find. It's good value for the price it offers and it's very intuitive and flexible.

Float makes the most useful tool for planning and managing work resources.

Kommentare: It has been a very productive experience. Float provides us with an amazing platform that help us schedule and plan our team tasks based on our resources availability. It allows us to assign tasks amongst ourselves and schedule task timelines to keep check on time.

Vorteile:

Float has the best to use work scheduling tools that assist us to allocate tasks and create work schedules easily. It has an very user-friendly interface which allows us to comfortably make use of all the available functions. Float time tracking features keeps us always on the lookout on the time we are spending performing each tasks.

Nachteile:

Working with Float has been so seamless and there is no aspect about it not to like best.