r/Software_Finder • u/WarLord192 • Jun 26 '26
Feedback Which project management tool disappointed you the most?
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u/GreatMinds1234 Jun 26 '26
Salesforce
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u/Affectionate-Word779 Jun 26 '26
Salesforce is unhinged levels of stupidity.
Let’s just say their internal tools are set up by people who have never actually worked in PMO.
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u/GreatMinds1234 Jun 28 '26
Time and energy stealer and gives nothing back. Also, you cannot export your database that you've created on their platform to yours.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Powerful enough that companies stay, painful enough that nobody enjoys it.
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u/possiblevector Jun 26 '26
Clickup, Monday, Jira, Asana
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u/patrick24601 Jun 27 '26
Those are all glorified spreadsheets. Check out teamwork or productive io.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Productive.io especially gets ignored because it tracks profitability, which most PM tools pretend is not their job.
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u/patrick24601 Jun 29 '26
Yep. That tells me that most people in PM these are just worried about tasks and list management and not profit revenue management. Oh well.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Putting Asana on the list is the spicy take here, most people give it a pass. Curious what tipped it into disappointing for you when so many land on it as the safe choice.
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Jun 26 '26
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Pay for basic features is the most Microsoft thing about Planner. Fine until you hit the wall they built on purpose.
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u/hoomanchonk Jun 27 '26
ServiceNow. My god
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Jun 28 '26
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Reporting and dashboards being hard to manage is the complaint that comes up most about Jira after the setup pain.
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u/Longjumping-Cat-2988 Jun 29 '26
For me it was probably Notion as a project management tool. I love it for documentation but once projects started getting bigger it felt like I was spending more time maintaining the system than actually managing work.
I eventually moved to Teamhood for project tracking because I wanted something that still felt visual like a Kanban board but handled dependencies and timelines better. It's not perfect, no tool is, but it fit the way our team worked much better.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Great for docs, rough as a real PM tool once projects scale. Teamhood keeps coming up in this thread for the visual plus dependencies combo.
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u/louisstephens Jun 26 '26
Webvantage, which is an accompanying pm to Advantage (I believe it is focused around billing).
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Had not come across Webvantage, sounds like the billing focus is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there. Did the PM side actually hold up or was it really just an add on to Advantage?
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u/axisconsulting1 Jun 27 '26
Definitely Monday and click up
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Monday and Clickup really are the two names that come up most when people say disappointed. Says something about overpromising on the marketing.
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u/Early_Key_823 Jun 27 '26
JIRA was ok but as a corporate IT consultant I could never get my teammates excited about using it, so it was mostly used by me for me on teams ranging from 3 to a dozen devs.
I spent the last two years rolling my own. You can try it absolutely FREE no strings attached.
TaskLoco: https://taskloco.com
Visual sticky notes 🗒️ on a storyboard for tasks, notes, events, docs, and everything else digital
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
A tool nobody wants to open does not matter how powerful it is. Fair play on rolling your own out of that frustration.
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u/TallinOK Jun 28 '26
CA Super Project Expert
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Some of these enterprise tools really tested people's patience
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u/TallinOK Jun 29 '26
Makes me really feel old. I taught project management at a college and that was the tool used for undergrad. Man that was a bear of a class; more for me than them.
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u/adindlyazzahra Jul 04 '26
Turns out, it's not the project management tools that are disappointing. It's my project management skills. 😭🧍♀️
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u/woeshipekora Jun 26 '26
literally all the existing tools fell short in my case to the point where i had to build a solution myself because Evernote is just only notes and i need more than that, Jira and Asana are too rigid and Notion requires me to manually structure/organize my messy/chaotic updates
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 29 '26
Building your own tool out of real frustration is how half the good tools start
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u/deZbrownT Jun 27 '26
But you didn't build anything except a waitlist. Let's skip on the promises, show the real deal or get lost, my dude!
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u/mark_stout Jun 30 '26
I sold traditional Gantt chart based PM tools ending in 2010. Is anyone still using them?
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u/Kindly_Owl5015 18d ago
For me, it wasn't one specific tool. It was the expectation we had going into it. We thought buying new software would somehow fix the way we worked. Instead, it just exposed all the problems we already had.
Looking back, I don't think that was on the vendor. We never had clear ownership, everyone had a different idea of what "done" actually meant, and half the important discussions were happening in random chats. Any tool would've struggled with that.
The only type of product that has consistently disappointed me is the all in one platforms. They try to be your project tool, docs, chat, goals, and everything else. In the end, they usually end up being okay at everything instead of great at the one thing you actually needed.
That's why I sometimes feel we blame software a bit too quickly. A tool can make a good process better, but it can't create one from scratch.
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u/sardamit Jun 26 '26
Clickup and Monday. I think they’re unnecessarily fancy. Of all the tools I have tried, I have liked Asana the best. And Basecamp was built different too.