Float

Float

I just discovered Float. And wish I would have heard of it when I still ran my own design studio. It looks like a fantastic way to keep track on who is working now what within a company, especially a project/service oriented studio? Do you use it? Or something similar?

8 Comments leave a comment below

  1. We used it a long time but switched to Forecast by Harvest recently.

    Robert
    Jan 21st, 2016 / 8:31 am

  2. Also using Forecast. Well…I use it. My boss is an idiot.

    William
    Jan 21st, 2016 / 12:07 pm

  3. Float rocks! Been using it the last 6 months to manage our studio and the team love it.

    Jen
    Jan 21st, 2016 / 11:25 pm

  4. We use it at our agency & it’s been great! It helps the team to manage their own projects & helps the Traffic Manager to schedule w/an accurate view of the teams bandwidth.

    Kathryn
    Jan 22nd, 2016 / 9:14 am

  5. I use Wrike with rabid addiction; can’t image life without their Gantt chart view, and about to upgrade to modify for my content production company’s different functions and creative pipelines. That said, I have clients who considered it too powerful – yet wanted more than Basecamp. Look forward to checking out Float for them as the potential Goldilocks of PM platforms.

    Dodie Jacobi
    Jan 22nd, 2016 / 10:15 am

  6. Float has been awesome for us. Best interface going around. We looked into others, Forecast was way too basic and expensive for what it is.

    James M
    Jan 22nd, 2016 / 12:21 pm

  7. We’ve been using it at our rapidly growing digital agency and found it to be a mixed bag. The UI is fine for smaller groups, but once you get above a certain number of employees it becomes cumbersome. There are filters for teams/projects, but they apply to work undertaken rather than individuals. (For example, if someone’s slated to start on a project shortly but they have a holiday coming up, filtering by the project will show their allotted project time but not their holiday.)

    Ryan B
    Jan 25th, 2016 / 8:27 am

  8. We use Wethod which is more integrated and enable a self organizing attitude. Moreover it solves one big issue all other tools have: il allows to schedule the amount of time that has been budgeted. Pretty simple but powerful.

    Tom
    Jan 31st, 2016 / 1:31 am