When we first launched (2019/2020), we were up and running from an excel file to MP in less than a week. User interface is simple, easy to understand. Customizable fields can be created to reflect your business. Its ability to allow users and resources to access information in real time, allows for a variety of access and use. Customer support is responding with solutions within a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating with other platforms can be tricky. Documenting terms and definitions of Project fields and selections for training / reference / API has to be done outside Meisterplan. It does not allow for export or import of Project field background information used to set up projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are able to visualize the allocation of our consulting workforce on existing clients and prospective client opportunities.

We are able to forecast our revenue.

It is the core system we use in our weekly management and staffing meetings.

It is easy to use.

Our Meisterplan Customer Success liaison was very proactive and interested in seeing us maximize the value that we got out of Meisterplan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need a more granular resource skillset tracking and identification tool. For example, if we need to identify a consultant who will be available in June, who is a Sr. .Net backend developer, a minimum of mid-level React front-end skills, has good mentoring skills to work with two junior developers, and is able to be onsite at the client 3 days per week. We were not able to capture list level of detail within MeisterPlan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No setup hassle – cloud-based and ready to go in minutes

Drag-and-drop simplicity for complex project portfolios

Seamless Excel import

Improved planning accuracy and client communication

Great visibility for resource allocation and revenue forecasting

Core tool in weekly management and staffing meetings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We would like a dedicated app or feature that allows our consultants to easily view which projects they are assigned to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best project portfolio management application I've used in 30+ year career. Keeping project management isolated from portfolio management has been a benefit to us rather than using a full PM/PfM/PPM application; the flexibility in letting diverse business units keep their project management practices that work best for their teams and workflows while bringing together top-down planning is a good balance for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much down side. I've led F100 PMO teams that were responsible for portfolio and project management tools and processes, including MS Project, Asana, Clarity PPM and Planview. WHile each tool has strengths, Meisterplan was quickest to onboard and least costly to maintain. It is an elegant solution that permits our focus on portfolio and resource management, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visual tool that packs in a lot of information in a clear visual: Project dates, resource loading and profitability, all at once.

Easy to see the effects of changes (drag an element and the system updates the rest)

Easy to use!

Love the option to consider or exclude certain projects from the calculation, as well as the scenario- planning capacity.

Financials are time-related, so that you can match the inflows with dates or milestones. Great for cash-flow management! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would benefit from some extra customization options (eg: keep milestones fixed once date is in the past, even if the project is prolonged, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a nice fit to help organise our overall portfolio management. Nice visualisation and overall good layout. Easy to use.Good features. enjoy the data export features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No real dislike just observations:

Can get expensive with named ressources metric for users. One foot in task management and one foot out ,i imagine intension for future release will clarify the direction they are taking with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You always see the current allocation of your resources and with simple drag and drop you move projects and recognize the changes for your resources and financials. Great and intuitive user interface for easy project portfolio planning. Especially the inclusion of financials is great! Interfaces with other systems and tools are interesting option for high level of integration in our entire software landscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Planning of part-time resources could be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past I had to use large excel files with complicated formulas to plan next years portfolio and display/predict resource bottlenecks. After countless hours of fixing data and waiting for results to be calculated I'm now using Meisterplan to plan ahead. The best thing: It's fast and displays the impact of changes in the portfolio instantaneously. This leaves me able to focus on the actual problems and find new alternatives.

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There are times I feel the need to break projects down into more detailed structures, e.g. phases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Meisterplan we can setup individual attributes within the complete scope of data, join personalized analysis of project teams, budgets and portfolios. It is fully customizable and can be rightsized to our needs and requirements. According to other known project portfolio management solutions this is one of the big bulletpoints and USPs of Meisterplan.

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Some controls dont sometimes do what they should do and react a little bit sluggish, and please add some new color themes and attributes for some dashboards and diagrams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We took Meisterplan for planning our consultants and external projects and found it quite helpful. It's so easy to assign resources to projects and to see what happens with their capacity. At the end we improved our planning accuracy and the communication with our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are missing an application for our consultant where they can see for which projects they are booked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.