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Overview Presentation
Screenful is a productivity software add-on to help project teams easily visualize progress and get automated status updates. It integrates with project management applications such as Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Jira and GitHub. Team members and other stakeholders are able to access dashboards and display them on large TV screens. Stakeholders can get informed of project status with weekly email digests. Teams can get updates directly in their chat application. A similar app we found that may compete with Screenful is Bridge24 for Trello.
Features, Benefits, Strengths
Integration with PM Applications – Screenful dashboards enable project teams to instantly display important statuses and information visually on computers and large screens such as an office TV. It organizes and display data collected by these project management applications. They are then displayed and delivered in a format that is easy to understand. Aside from dashboards, it can also deliver weekly reports that include key productivity metrics and progress of current projects. These reports can be received by email and in Slack chat application.
Team and Task Dashboards – The visual productivity tool can display dashboards about team status, so users and other stakeholders can see who is currently working on a task. They can also see what has already been completed, which ones are in review, or which tasks are blocked. Other dashboards include lead and cycle times, sprint progress with a burndown chart, release plans, time spent on tasks, and more. Users can also click at a user profile and see individual todo lists.
Interactive and Customizable – Screenful dashboards are configurable and allows users to freely choose which list or workflow is displayed. They can select the content to be displayed in each column or in both column. Filters are also available and can be applied. Moreover, users can create their own custom chart, in addition to pre-selected charts that are configurable with filters.
Pricing
Screenful monthly subscription plans are available for tracking projects on Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Jira and GitHub. All plans include unlimited number of users to access the dashboards. Each plan also include a specific number of dashboards. For users who need more than 30 dashboards and other specific requirements, an Enterprise plan is available. For startups with less than 10 employees, a discount is offered. A free 21-day trial period is also available.
Screenful is for companies that use Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Jira and GitHub for project management and require dashboards and visual communication of status and progress among stakeholders. It can be applied across industries and sectors that use these PM applications. It is valuable for teams of any size.
Supported Language
English
Some of their Clients
Clients include hundreds of individuals, teams and organizations using PM application such as GitHub, Jira, Trello and Pivotal Tracker.
Testimonials
Paul Shannon stated that Screenful helps make his team throughput and priorities visible. It also has increased team engagement with others in what they do.
Patrick Ingram described the visualization tool as wonderful. As an agile coach and agility consultant, Screenful helps him explain why organizations should focus on reducing lead and cycle times, and understand cumulative flow.
Why Screenful
Screenful is a valuable add-on to help visualize data that has already been collected by PM software. It can make information visible through accessible dashboards and surface data that can help teams improve in their workflow and processes.
Company Info
Screenful Oy is a privately held computer software company with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 2013 by Sami Linnanvuo, CEO, and Tuomas Tammi, CTO. Sami started development of the software in order to improve communications among stakeholders in software projects. He noticed that many project managers find difficulty in answering even the most basic questions related to their production process. The software as SaaS was launched in 2015. Integration with Pivotal Tracker also followed. Collaboration with Trello came next, and the Power-Up was launched in 2016. The Jira add-on launch and the GitHub integration soon followed in 2017. As of June this year, there are over 200 Screenful customers from 30 countries.
Jose Santos is a long-time writer for project-management.com. He is a subject matter expert in the field of project management and has many years of experience writing about project management software and tools. He has written hundreds of articles for the project management industry, including numerous software reviews, book reviews, training site reviews, and more.
