Developed by a French start-up, Bubble Plan is an online planning tool. It allows, among other things, to manage project portfolios by creating Gantt charts on the fly.
What is Bubble Plan?
Through an ergonomic and secure online environment, Bubble Plan offers a planning-oriented application designed for project portfolio management. The tool is based on a task management system with various visual management features, from a Kanban board to a Gantt chart, including individual or collective calendar views.
What are the features of Bubble Plan?
In order to supervise a portfolio of projects, Bubble Plan includes the following tools:
- A planning tool which allows you to drag and drop the tasks to be carried out on a timeline by distinguishing the phases (scoping, pilot, development, deployment), sprints, stages, meeting dates… All identified by a color code,
- A Gantt chart which manages the constraints and dependencies that may exist between tasks or between different projects,
- A reporting tool to monitor the progress of projects with warning indicators in case of delay,
- A Kanban view to follow in detail the progress of each project,
- A schedule of the participants to manage and track task allocation, workloads, anticipate new projects and potential areas of tension,
- A task management tool designed to manage workloads by team,
- A schedule dedicated to each speaker,
- A personal dashboard to allow everyone to manage their priority actions, their meeting schedule, and their deadlines,
- A cat integrated into each project schedule to facilitate collaboration and teamwork,
- A comment thread manages the discussions around the projects as well as the moderation and validation processes.
In addition, Bubble Plan offers a data hosting service, with security features.
To make a Gantt plan in Bubble Plan, you need to navigate to the milestones and bubbles menu, then select the “Links” option. This feature allows you to manage the main action, as well as past and future subtasks. This includes the possibility to add “cause/effect” type constraints. From this point of view, the activation and connection by keyword of the parameterized actions are also possible.
Is Bubble Plan free?
Including the main features of the application, Bubble Plan offers a free entry-level service that limits the number of users to two. So this edition is limited to the discovery of the offer.
What is the price of Bubble Plan?
In its paid version, Bubble Plan has an entry price of 12 dollars per month for 10 users. This is the Bubble Plan Team offer. For 22 dollars per month, Bubble Plan Business allows 20 users and extends to the management of custom views.
Finally, Bubble Plan Enterprise offers a decreasing price according to the number of users. This edition includes a dedicated architecture and a separate database.
Editors feedback on Bubble Plan?
Bubble Plan stands out first of all by its clear interface and an immediate handling thanks to the “drag and drop” principle. The functionalities remain easy to access and are exhaustive to manage a portfolio of projects and their dependencies. This is one of the main strengths of this application.
Collaborative tools allow to perfect the offer, and to guarantee productive exchanges. Bubble Plan relies on a scalable system with regular updates.