Comments on: Bantam Live: A Social Project Management Dashboard

By: Tony Mobily

Tony Mobily — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:51:16 +0000

Hi,

I have to say, I like this perspective: “The learning curve for using Bantam Live is very shallow, making it a practical system to use for short-lived teams.” I have used Bantam Live, and have to agree with that: the learning curve is indeed very shallow.

We developed Apollo ( http://www.apollohq.com ) and I never thought this in terms of short-lived teams.

Apollo does project and contact management, cases&deals, timers, calendar… but it is aimed at teams that tend to stick together and know what to do.

Bye!

Merc.

By: rahat

rahat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:37:53 +0000

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By: Project Management Hut

Project Management Hut — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:34:13 +0000

I checked the video on the bantam website and it looks quite nice, but I can’t see a valid reason why this application should be the one chosen from the myriad of other online PM tools available in the market.

Hope Linda (the comment above) is reading this, if you are, would you care to explain?

By: thomasoppong

thomasoppong — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:39:42 +0000

I think bantam has found a niche and they are providing some value for team collaboration

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By: Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:31:05 +0000

Another suggestion: a way to filter the dashboard’s activity view by activity type (Deal, Project, Task, etc.)

By: Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:27:59 +0000

Having used ManyMoon for a while now, I really like Bantam Live. The UI is clean, but the workflow is a bit muddled at times.

It’d be great if tasks were grouped by project instead of just in a list and it’d be nice if there were a more streamlined way to add tasks. In fact, tasks being more closely aligned to projects overall would be nice (/tasks for example is just a list, sometimes with an “re: [Some Project]“).

Task sets that can be applied to projects would be a huge time-saver.

Project sorting control might be nice (@ /projects), as we tend to have several going at once.

I really like the app, and would consider moving to it when it gets a bit more polish to it. (Linda and team: great work)

By: Linda Brown

Linda Brown — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:15:37 +0000

Hi Susan, Bantam Live is targeted to business teams in the SMB space, and not large institutions where more of those restrictions you refer to exist. Moreover, the account owner in setting up a Bantam Live account can deactivate the feature that allows users to link to outside social media.

By: My-Project-Management-Expert.com

My-Project-Management-Expert.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:15:51 +0000

Hi,

Looks like a great bit of software which will certainly help communication within project teams, especially when managing those either offshore or based in multiple countries.

It would also put paid to the whole “No-one told me that” excuse which often appears when work has not be delivered to an updated schedule date.

One caveat though; whilst the link to social media is great, many companies restrict access to things like Twitter and in many ie investment banks, public sector is it actually banned.

Regards

Susan de Sousa
Site Editor http://www.my-project-management-expert.com

By: Linda Brown

Linda Brown — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:15:37 +0000

Hey, thanks for the coverage! Totally unexpected. We’re big fans of Web Worker Daily. …From our point of view, Bantam Live is an online workspace for sales/marketing/biz dev teams with “social CRM” features. It’s been likened to “Facebook for business teams” with the ability for users to find, engage, and manage business relationships across the web from within Bantam and on a collaborative basis as a team, as your review points out. What we’d also add is that in Bantam, a user can sequentially 1) search Twitter, 2) import a new contact with one click, 3) initiate task workflows with team members to engage this new contact, and 4) communicate with the new contact for CRM purposes, and 5) maintain all annotations and live feeds of this person from a single contact page in Bantam Live. All of this activity is displayed in the real-time stream of the Bantam Live dashboard, where all team members interact.

Thanks again for the coverage. We’ll increasingly be adding more CRM features for small business teams.