Gantt Charts for projects
A common feature of project management software are Gantt Charts, providing a good overview of the timespan of projects, visualising milestones and deadlines and providing a quick overview about time planning. Is this feature planned or could this be realised?
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@Daniel, you need your rate limit increased for your apps. If you contact us via https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/requests/new we can do that for you :)
//Dominik - Podio
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If you go to the Citrix website, it lists Podio as a "flexible project management" platform touting "a new level of project visibility" (here: https://www.citrix.com/products/podio/overview.html)
It is this user's humble opinion that Gantt Charts are a necessary part of any project management application. Seeing how this is one of the most popular threads on here, why won't the devs add it to the road map?
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@ Daniel: I fully agree - my company have been working with Podio for some months now - and we still rely on MS-Project for visualising our project schedule.
I wish Podio would create some simple gantt feature - that's all we need.
Bendix Kiels solutions is OK - but I would like to see it as an integral part of the Podio workspace... -
"Podio: Project Management Software".
Gantt is the most common project schedule visualization.
Maiko Schaffrath asked here at April 2013, more than 120 votes. More than two years passed and no real answer about putting this feature on the Podio Roadmap.
Podio Integrations should work for things that aren't Podio core business. Project Management is Podio Business.
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Jacquelyn, we really need the gantt chart functionality to be included in Podio.
The provided solution for gantt charts "smartgantt" makes no sense. It's too expensive for just a gantt chart!
For me it feels like: " if you need to make a comment, please by Microsoft office"For smartgantt you need to pay for all users (including viewers) almost the same as you have to pay for Podio? Please check your valueproposition and corresponding revenue stream. This should be included in Podio if you are serious in projectmanagement support.
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@Harold van Puijenbroek We are the Podio Partner that build SmartGantt. You wrote "For smartgantt you need to pay for all users (including viewers) almost the same as you have to pay for Podio? ". I humbly think you need to trial SmartGantt again. What you write here is simply wrong. You only need to pay for the employees that need to be able to build, plan and schedule the Gantt charts. Then they can then share the chart either as a PDF, PNG or in an online Read-only version, with people that does not have SmartGantt accounts.
I fully agree with you that it would be great if we could get access to offer the SmartGantt experience directly inside of Podio, but that is simply not possible for us for now.
If you have previously testet SmartGantt and your trial has expired, I will offer you an extension of that trial for you to test the sharing options. ;-)
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We trialed Smartgantt and weren't really able to understand how to integrate it effectively. We couldn't figure out if we would have to create new apps just to track milestones?
At this point, we have decided to use SmartSheet for managing our Construction projects and Podio for managing our lead generation and contacts. It's not ideal, but it seems to work ok.
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@James B, you can use SmartGantt with any Podio app, as long as you have a date field.
Please reach out to our support@smartgantt.com if you would your trial extended and need help setting up SmartGantt.
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Almost 4 years and no movement on this? Talk about a "f#ck you!" to customers, or potential customers.
Such clear case of putting business relationships before customer needs.Like so many other people have commented, this addition would make Podio a slam dunk tool, but instead, a lot of people come away with the feeling "What!? Really!?"
Whenever I show this tool to a serious PM, the first question they ask is "where's the gantt feature? I can visualize all my project items on a timeline, right?"
Ahh, actually, no. You have to pay almost the same price per user on top of your Podio fees.
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I did a search for 'gantt' on the forum here, and read every post that came up.
I read Is Podio being discontinued? in which an official response from Sara Høeg states:
... You're also correct Gantt Chart is currently the top requested feature in the Forum however please note this is only because we already managed to implement the top requested features from the past ... (June 22, 2015)But after my initial joy, because I thought this would finally be considered to implement, I read Gantt Chart - will it ever be? which states: ... No plans in the near future as this is not on the current roadmap. Please follow this thread for any future updates ... (December 07, 2015)
@support: Every official answer on this matter contradicts Be honest - also when saying no. Do you have any meaningfull response on this, please?
+2 years ago I was looking for another PM tool and stumbled upon Podio. I was amazed by it's flexibillity and abillity to customize. But after having trialed Bendix Kiel's gantt solution, I had to conclude Podio was the perfect tool I've always wanted to have if it would have a decent gantt solution.
So I moved on to Asasa+Instagantt. I'm happy I did, but I'm convinced implementing this essential PM feature would convince me and a considerable number of other potential users to switch to Podio, or at least give it a try. -
Thanks for your feedback Berten Vandebroek, I can only re-state what we said in the past. We don't have any plans to add Gantt chart functionality to Podio in the near future. This means we don't have it planned as a part of the roadmap for 2016. Things might change though so we might be able to offer this in the future. I don't know how to give a more honest answer than this! :)
//Sara - Podio
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Thank you for your reply Sara. To be clear, I'm not considering the official answers on this topic 'dishonest'. I can only applaud Podio's transparency and communication in general.
The specific part from Listening and learning I was referring to: "Explain why you won’t decide on anything for the next six months on a certain topic, be honest about that you might be in a position where you cannot share the roadmap, explain why you think a suggestion is a horrible, horrible idea (be nice). Real people wrote you a real message. The discussions from the things we don’t want to do have been some of the best as we get a chance to test our reasoning and get deeper into the use cases people are looking to solve."
So after having read all those posts about Gantt I feel the above quote doesn't reflect on the answers given by Podio support. As you stated yourself on June 22 and December 07, 2015 (I quoted you about this in my previous post): Gantt is currently the most popular requested feature but it isn't planned nor on the current roadmap.
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A Gantt chart feature would make Podio even more of a standout project management tool. The Partner software really hasn't been thought out that well, it's not user-friendly and having to use yet another website is also just annoying. Why wouldn't Podio implement a top requested feature that it's users have been requesting for 3/4 years! Seems odd to me.
Thanks
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I have been using Podio for several years and love the flexibility. However as I start to really create larger and larger projects the one thing that always is holding it back is the gantt chart views. My business would have invested in well over 150 users or more in Podio if they could natively solve the gantt chart request. Due to this many parts of the business are now utilizing Smartsheet.com they offer an excellent gantt chart view and have 90% of the same features. Smartsheet also has a very efficient pricing model too, but that is besides the point.
It has been several years and I have always had great responses from Podio. I only hope someone reads this and can give us feedback on the next 12 months of their product roadmap, becasue not having gantt charts (or at least dependencies (parent/child references) in an app item - will be the nail in the coffin. So even if you don't deliver on the gannt chart view, which I don't see why you would't, at least expose apps to be able to create a parent child reference in the app item.....otherwise Smartsheet.com will continue to grow and Podio will become something that "could have been amazing". Right now it is just good, but not great. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated Podio. Cheers -
I remember requesting this in my last job 4 years ago. I thought I'd pop back as we're about to start a £80M construction project and I'm weighing up options. I'm amazed Podio have not even credited the people who have bothered to feed back here with a reason for not implementing Gantt. .... In FOUR YEARS!! Such a great product otherwise, Podio team, what company paid you so much to limit your product so fundamentally? I hope you feel it was worth it. No Gantt, no chance. Well hello again Smartsheet and Monday.com.
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Hi everyone,
There is no current plans for a Gantt Chart in Podio. Read more about our focus areas for 2018 here: https://blog.podio.com/2018/01/10/2017-year-in-review/
We recommend looking at our partner extensions for a solution:
We can also recommend a custom Timeline solution built by Phases:
//Sara - Podio
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Can we just accept that this isn't going to happen just because users request it?
I can't be the only one who sees that the reason there's never any justification to accompany the "we have no plans" statements is that there is a business relationship that is being prioritized over the desires of end users.
This is all my hypothetical speculation of course, but if I wanted to keep my price point competitive, I might carve off a key feature and sell it via a separate channel, resulting in the cost of the tool being perceived as lower.
In a world of truth in advertising, Podio prices may be asterisked with the note 'Gantt charting sold at extra cost and unnecessary complication to you".
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