ProjectManager

Overview

ProjectManager is a hosted project and portfolio tool that keeps one plan visible as a Gantt chart, a task list, a sheet, a kanban board and a calendar, with unlimited tasks and subtasks, baselines, critical path and project version control underneath. The entry Team tier covers that planning layer for up to ten users and twenty projects and adds unlimited read-only guest licences, so people who only need to watch progress do not take a seat. Resource management, workload planning with working days and labour rates, time tracking with timesheets that fill themselves from logged hours, budgeting, portfolio dashboards, workflow automation and AI Project Insights all begin on the Business tier. Connectors cover QuickBooks Online, Jira and Azure DevOps with two-way sync, Power BI, Acumatica, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Excel and Trello, alongside a documented API; several of them are sold as a five dollar per user per month integration bundle unless the account is on Enterprise. Paid plans are per user per month with an annual discount, and the trial runs thirty days with no card and no user minimum.

Best for delivery teams that need one plan in several views and, a tier up, the resourcing and timesheets to report on it.

The shape of the paid tiers is the thing to weigh before anything else: everything that turns a plan into controlling, meaning hours, workloads, budgets and the portfolio view, arrives in one jump at the second tier, so there is no gentle middle to grow into and the real question is whether the cheaper tier is enough on its own. For a team that only needs to lay out work and show it to people, it is, and the free guest licences make that case unusually well. Anyone who needs to bill the hours or defend a budget should price the higher tier from the start and add the integration bundle to that sum, because the connectors most such teams reach for are not included. Its comfort zone is delivery work that has to be reported upwards, in construction, professional services and IT; a small studio that wants a shared board will find far more machinery here than the job calls for.

Key Facts

Features

Task planning

Yes, unlimited tasks and subtasks across Gantt, list, sheet, board and calendar views, with dependencies, milestones, baselines, critical path and version control

Resource planning

Yes, workload balancing with defined working days, labour rates and availability, from the Business tier

Time tracking

Yes, time logged on tasks and secure timesheets that populate from those hours, from the Business tier

Reporting and controlling

Yes, portfolio dashboards and shareable project reports including status, timesheet and workload reports, with advanced reporting from the Business tier

Integrations and API

Yes, an API with documentation and code samples, plus two-way sync with Jira and Azure DevOps and connectors for Power BI, QuickBooks Online, Acumatica, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Excel and Trello

Integrations

• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• Microsoft Power BI
• QuickBooks Online
• Acumatica
• Microsoft Teams
• Slack
• Microsoft Excel
• Trello

Deployment and Support

Deployment

• Cloud (SaaS)
• Browser-based

Support

• Email helpdesk

Onboarding

• Documentation and knowledge base
• Video tutorials
• Live online demos and webinars
• Guided onboarding
• Personal consulting

Company size

• Small and mid-sized
• Enterprise

Suitability

The table combines the industries the vendor addresses with the company sizes the tool is aimed at. An empty cell means the combination is not stated, not that it is ruled out.

Pros and Cons

Pricing

• Team

  $15 / user / month

  Billed annually, $18 billed monthly. Up to 10 users, 20 projects, 5 GB file storage, API access and unlimited guest licences.

• Business

  $28 / user / month

  Billed annually, $32 billed monthly. No user limit, up to 100 projects, 25 GB storage, resource management, timesheets, budgeting, AI Project Insights and portfolio dashboards.

• Enterprise

  Not stated

  Custom quote with volume-based pricing. SAML single sign-on, native Power BI and Excel integrations, audit logs, custom permissions, unlimited projects and storage, onboarding assistance and a dedicated account manager.

Best For

• Architecture & Engineering
• Consulting
• Technology

Alternatives and Comparisons

What users say

Reviews

Share your experience

Write a Review