Planview LeanKit Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

MIGRATED TO Planview AdaptiveWork

Leankit Cards for Days!

What do you like best? This product has a great visual layout and helps our team members view what everyone is working on. What do you dislike? The product can sometimes feel too busy and cluttered once you start to have 100's of cards. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It allows us to see what team members are working on.

Good kanban option with great flexibility and clear simple interface

What do you like best? Easy viewing of cards. Not overloaded with too much information. Simple edit mode with tabs. Priority, blocked, custom icons. WIP limits are obvious and visual. New board editor is a big improvement. Quick switcher works well. What do you dislike? Connected cards are not obvious or easy to use (standard plan). Email notifications are brutal (no styling, hard to read). No concept of Client or Project. (we use Card types) What problems are ...

Awesome tool to track work-in-progress

What do you like best? ability to track tasks across the board and help keep active work moving. What do you dislike? Unable to reset time started on a task, once a card is pull (even if by accident). Need a simple way to track report on usage and such (not manual report building) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Track all work in progress for our development team. Team is able to collaborate (even remote sites) and track ...

Excellent tool

What do you like best? Manage my tasks and be able to assign tasks to team members. What do you dislike? I can3t find options to create my own lines What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The project roadmap is being carried out, assigning tasks to the team members, controlling the completion dates and the completion time.

Perfect for short term committments

What do you like best? Easy, intuitive, live updates with multiple users at the same time What do you dislike? Once there is a large list of tasks/projects, it becomes difficult to manage - relied on traditional methods (excel) for portfolio management activities Recommendations to others considering the product: What is your purpose for using it? if it's small teams, light scale usage, it's perfect What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

Current material issues to production in a timely manner

What do you like best? Jobs can be tracked throughout the process of issuing parts and monitoring for all changes that may occur during the pulling and issuing of material. Dates are a valued asset to the process. What do you dislike? The time span of switching between boards, sometimes it clears my entire screen and I have to go out of the program and then come back in. Recommendations to others considering the product: I recommend other businesses to use LeanKit by ...

Helps keep track of tasks

What do you like best? Easy and intuitive card movement, filtering What do you dislike? Board can sometimes overfill with tasks and scrollbars become to long What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Helps keep track of everyone's work and keep timelines

Leankit is critical step in our creative process to guarantee a smooth dev pass-offs.

What do you like best? The UX is intuitive and simple to learn. What do you dislike? The UI can use some improvements to make the flow easier. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Design, dev pass-off.

Acceptable - could be a bit more agile

What do you like best? Ability to update and review with multiple users simultaneously. What do you dislike? I don't actively dislike anything about the LeanKit. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are primarily using our LeanKit for demand and capacity review.

Excellent, clear, and concise

What do you like best? I like that Leankit is simple and easy to use. I've used other task management systems before, and I find that they either, don't have enough functionality, or are way too complicated and take weeks to get used to. What do you dislike? I can't think of anything to dislike. Sometimes it can be tough to manage cards effectively, but thats more of an organizational problem than a tool problem. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits ...