Helps you avoid delays because you can visualize your deadlines and track your progress
What is our primary use case?
I am a consultant who helps companies implement monday.com. I do not use the solution at my organization. The use case depends on the client. Every company needs tools for collaboration and organization, and most use Office 365, Google Docs, etc. Around 80 percent of my clients are agencies, but they've reached the limits of what they can do in terms of collaboration with their existing tools.
Most of the clients who contact me already know that they want to implement monday.com, so it's not like I'm selling them the solution. They want something to facilitate their collaboration and communication.
How has it helped my organization?
monday.com is an excellent tool to follow your project timeline to see where you are and where you want to go. It's super flexible. Thanks to all the automation, you can do practically anything with monday.com.
It's great for managers. The dashboard gives you an overview of your team's workload, so you can see how long it takes for each person to complete a task. There are many kinds of dashboards, each with widgets that offer insight into what is happening.
monday.com helps you avoid delays because you can visualize your deadlines and track your progress. It can help you break down silos in an organization to some extent, but it's just a tool. Some companies think a tool will change everything. The tool will help you manage your files, but it depends on the company's politics and how people want to work together. If your directors and managers want to avoid silos, monday.com will help them do that easily. It's an excellent tool for collaborating across various services, but it depends on the company's policy.
What is most valuable?
I like the automation you can do with monday.com. You can automate priorities, status changes, notifications, etc. You may need another solution to create this automation in other tools, but monday.com includes everything. The Gantt view for project planning is also pretty good.
The interface is another area where monday.com shines. It is colorful and visually appealing. You can paint with colors, and there are multiple views. If you are the type of person who wants all of your information displayed linearly, you can set it up in lines.
It's the best tool for evaluating timelines and projects. The most challenging part is deciding how you want to display your information, but as soon as you know what you're doing, it's effortless to view where you are in the project and who's involved.
You can set up a simple project in under five minutes, but a super complex one might take a few days. I think it's straightforward if you know how you want to organize your information.
monday.com is accessible to non-technical users but takes a lot of time. They have many tutorials, and you can easily use monday.com if you can take the time to go through them and learn. When you initially create a project, it's only a board with lines on which you enter the tasks. You have some columns with the task owner, status, deadlines, etc. It is not that easy to understand all the features and how you can use them for your case, which is why people contact me.
When you implement the tool, you decide which layout to use and what information you want to disclose. I've seen clients who have been using this for three years, and they still only know how to do things one way because they haven't taken the time to understand all the features. It's crucial to spend time at the start and learn the tool. I don't think the learning curve is that huge.
What needs improvement?
monday.com is missing a few features but not many. For example, let's say you're working on a global project for a marketing campaign, and you have the video team working on it. Maybe the video team only wants a board that shows the packages that are related to them, but you cannot do that on monday.com. You can't have the same task in multiple projects.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with monday.com for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
If you are doing a lot of automation, it can start to lag a little.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
monday.com is highly scalable. You can use it with teams of any size.
How are customer service and support?
I am a partner, so I have access to many different resource sets. I have never contacted their tech support because I already have access to all the information I need.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I use Asana every day, and we work with Optix. I've also used Trello and Excel. Asana is easier to use, but monday.com is more flexible and can do more. Asana is user-friendly, and monday.com is more powerful.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up the tool is straightforward, but you also need to consider the process that you're implementing and do some work beyond the tool itself. I have teams of 20 to 30 people, and three or four are usually involved in the integration. After deployment, it doesn't require any maintenance. It just works.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
monday.com is pretty affordable. It's cheaper than Asana. There are four tiers, including a free version. The free version is fine if you don't have any complex projects. One of the most advanced plans is around $16 per month per user.
What other advice do I have?
I rate monday.com a nine out of ten. I remove one point for the performance issues. I recommend taking your time in the beginning. Don't rush into implementation. It's only a tool, and you can't expect it to instantly transform your organization. Take the time to understand all the features and what you hope to get from it.
Key Top Merits and challenges of monday.com
What do you like best about the product?
Easy nevigation, unique status across team geography, best reporting graphs and drill down industry agnostic
What do you dislike about the product?
field level validation is not there , pop up msg
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
unique status across globe and hierarcy, bandwidth utilization effectively, team status, presales status, online collaboration without emails
monday.com is an excellent tool for Handling Tickets, work management, CRM, marketing tool.
What do you like best about the product?
With the help of Integrations, we can develop Custom Recipes; with the Help of Automation, we can send reminders and assign persons automatically. With the help of a dashboard, we can check the overall report of the status
What do you dislike about the product?
Automation cannot be applied to mirror and formula columns in most of the use cases; there is no automation related to subitems creation, there is no filter of eliminate the null values in PIVOT table
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
monday.com is an excellent tool for task management. It was easy to use, handle project management workflow and easily integrate with other tools like Jira, asana. We have migrated the data from Jira and Asana to monday.com for better project and task management workflow.
Training Connoissuer
What do you like best about the product?
Well, the best and the most imperative thing which Monday Dev covers is the leverage users get when it comes to planning, devising, and formulating intuitive launching strategies for products no matter how complex the project is.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike is the dull interface because in a cloud platform where everything is "at your fingertips"; the graphs and other sprint structures should look fascinating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Above all is the ease in the software implementation phase since previously it wasn't easy to track the progress along with organizing the way a developer wants. There were a lot of limitations along with contingencies but now not only Scrum is playing an important role in curating those approaches.
10X'd our company efficiency
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about Monday.com is that you can automate complex workflows across multiple team members to eliminate the back-and-forth of emails and text messages. MDC does the notifying for you and makes it all run smoothly.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've been using Monday a long time. Back in they day they were able to implement feature requests quickly. Today it takes them a lot longer, although that must be inevitable with the growth of their company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monday.com got us OUT of our email, and eliminated the arduous task of scrolling back through a text message chain trying to find that one piece of information that you remember came through... in MDC there is a logic to where you might have had a conversation so you can reference it later, and if you can't recall they have universal search to help you locate it.
Review about Monday.com
What do you like best about the product?
Currently, I am using Monday.com regularly. I have been using it for the past two and a half years. It is straightforward to maintain my activities and the status of the task daily. Very easy to track all my jobs. So, it is beneficial for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I face site down and face some delay in response, But it rarely happens. that is okay. Otherwise, I do not have any complaints or issues. It's easy to track all my tasks in the excellent dashboard. It is beneficial to maintain my activities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can easily maintain my tasks regularly. So, it is convenient for closing the work and finding any other bugs or updates in proper flow. So I can complete my pulse on time and respond to my clients quickly. It is a benefit for me to maintain all my activities.
Excellent business management program
What do you like best about the product?
The structure and organization. The interaction via graphics and selection of elements for the production of the works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Congestion regarding system load, as agility is needed for the company's daily management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization of elements, graphics, and statistics of each management carried out.
very practical
What do you like best about the product?
That it is agile, that it can connect with other teams, and that the teams remain synchronized and aligned.
What do you dislike about the product?
so far everything is perfect, excellent. I can't complain about anything
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
confirming quick information that has already been registered correctly
Software Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
It's about helpful in maintaining projects and tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cache issues in the browser, because of cache issues system RAM will get increase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over documentation, problem gets solved when using monday.com, actually it will reduce the more document flows.
Multi-purpose tool
What do you like best about the product?
You can use for various types of projects. It is fairly flexible, from generic project management, to product feedback/bug reporting. Also works for long or short-term projects
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be overwhelming. I use very little features of monday. The board, fill in few items. But the form work a bit strange, not as customizable/eidtable as I like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is simple enough to do quick project management. We also use Jira, but for certain purposes it is too advanced. E.g. for rapid bug reporting and feedback cycles. Or cross-team collaboration, team-wide collaboration. When it gets team-specific, I like the specialized platforms more
