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What Is Zoho Sprints?
Zoho Sprints is a free online agile project management tool for Scrum teams. Add user stories to your backlog, estimate and prioritize work items, stay on track with personalized scrum boards and swimlanes, get actionable insights from velocity, burn up and burn down charts, collaborate with your team on a social feed, and schedule your review and retrospective meetings from one place.
Who Uses Zoho Sprints?
It is used by teams of all sizes, to plan and track projects the agile way. It is suitable for anyone who wants to work in iterative cycles, particularly software development teams.
Where can Zoho Sprints be deployed?
About the vendor
- Zoho
- Founded in 1996
Zoho Sprints support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Zoho Sprints pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- Yes, has free version
Zoho Sprints has a free version and offers a free trial. Zoho Sprints paid version starts at US$1.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Zoho
- Founded in 1996
Zoho Sprints support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
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Reviews of Zoho Sprints
The Best Agile Project Management Solution ever built!
Comments: We have been using Zoho Projects and to our development model, this was a better choice. We switched to Sprints and We love it more than ever. This product has increased the entire team's productivity by a very large extent.
Pros:
Amazingly user-friendly and fast. Very fast updates and new features. Ideal for startups who work from simplest software applications to most complex one's. Amazing customization options, beautifly laid out with neat UI. Quick support and perfect resolution to queries.
Cons:
Nothing Specific but we are looking forward to get some friendly features like Cumulative timesheets across the project for a user. Its very annoying to calculate every user's individual project's timesheet to know a month's performance.
Alternatives Considered: Jira and Trello
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Sprints: Zoho Projects is meant for Waterfall model of software development. We are now into agile model hence we made the switch.
Switched From: Zoho Projects
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: This was value for money, easy to configure and get it running and was offering lot more features in a bundle ideal for our requirement.
Satisfied with features
Pros:
I like all the available features & easy to manage.
Cons:
A blog relating to how to start your sprints journey as a beginner could've been helpful.
Alternatives Considered: ClickUp
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: Focusing on one thing while being affordable.
User Experience is more than slapping together hodge-podge of few screens!! Zoho Sprints FAILS!!!
Comments:
TWO THUMBS DOWN!! Who is such an idiot that came up with a concept of a "Global View" concept - an Icon that you have to click simply to access your completed sprints/workitems - that too ungrouped dumped in front of you??? Honestly, Zoho - being such a large corporation, I put so much value into your brand when I picked your Sprints. Your CEO should read and try creating and managing one project himself/herself - NOT WATCH A DEMO as a passive audience member - I would be curious to see how many in the senior leadership of this product called Zoho Sprints remain in their job at end of that experience of creating and managing a single project with multiple sprints! How hard can be creation of a user interface that guides user through...
- Creation and management of EPICs, associate work items and sprints, and print meaningful reports for a given EPIC?
- Listing all sprints together - and marking completed/canceled/upcoming/active sprints as such? And allow user to click through and access all of the details of that selected sprint? And allow user to generate a meaningful summary and detailed reports for that sprint?
- Allowing you to generate a project-level report that includes all Epics, Sprints, Work Items reflected in there at summary or detailed level based on who the user is.
Also, I don't think permissions work correctly: I have someone in my team as "Manager" but he can't see any of the completed items in the "Global View", but I can as an Admin??????
Pros:
Positive First impression is the only positive note I can make on this software. During my free trial, I got carried away with pretty look of this application and charts/dashboards etc., and signed up for a year long Professional contract. BIG MISTAKE!
Cons:
These developers are like a fresh kids out of some d-School, who have no clue that people need to be able to access their data efficiently at a later point after data was entered into this thing that leads it to ABYSS of no-where land! There are plenty of pretty looking charts that DO NOT ALLOW click-throughs for further details. AND Literally, there are no printable reports in the system - a chart is not a report! And exported Excel spreadsheet with hodge-podge of my data slapped together is not a report either, my friend! There is literally NO CONSISTENT WAY of creating/accessing your Sprints.
Zoho Response
6 years ago
We’re really sorry to see that our product did not meet your expectations. This is certainly not a situation we want to see our customers in. Thank you for sharing what you went through in great detail. We read your feedback carefully and feel we can address them. Let us take them one by one. 1. Purpose of Global View All the info we show in the beginning is just a starting point. You can filter, search, and sort within this to drill down to the information you want. The enterprise plan also has a custom-view-tab where you can customise based on one or more criteria. You can then save these custom views you created for quick access later. 2. User interface that guides through Epics module There is indeed such an interface. Through six different steps, it takes you through all you can do with epics. And it fires up just after you create your first epic. If this is disabled, you can view it any time by clicking the ‘help tour’ icon at the bottom right bar. The same option is available not just in this module but across the product. 3. List all sprints We are working on making the sprint counters in the dashboard clickable, which would let you view this. An update we are planning for the custom view should show you the same info here also. 4. Detailed reports Please check if you’ve seen all these reports. In the reports module, burn up and burn down are shown by default for sprints. However, this can be changed to show the same info for epics. Additionally, we also have an epic progress report. You can view a sprint level dashboard, by clicking the ‘view details’ button next to the sprint name on the board module. Custom sprint-wise reports and dashboards are ‘work in progress’ and we can let you know as soon as they are ready. All our existing reports are, and future reports will be, printable. 5. Project level report of all sub-items As mentioned in point 1, you can drill down to this by filtering from the global view. And you need not do this everytime - you can save this view to get to it quickly. 6. Manager not able to see all info in global view The manager is probably looking under the ‘My View' tab in the default view. The purpose of this view is to see just his or her own items. The manager can see all items in all the sprints he or she is part of by choosing the appropriate criteria in the custom view. 7. Click through reports We do provide click throughs wherever applicable. However, some reports aggregate info from several views, so we cannot provide a click through here. In reports that show past activity, again, we cannot provide click throughs as the underlying data may have changed over time. If you feel we have missed a clickthrough where it is possible, do let us know the specific case and we will add it ASAP. I would like to share that the team that built this product also built Zoho Projects, a project management platform that has been around for over 10 years. They have spent these years developing domain expertise, honing the product and improving everything that adds to the customer experience. So it follows that the experience you had is something we are determined to change. We would like to speak with you on a call to learn more from you, walk you through these features and do our best to meet your needs. Please get in touch with us by mailing to [email protected].
Best And Cost Effective
Pros:
Overall UI/UX and the feature set does all for your requirements as a startup. It helps manages all the task and project planning is done in ease
Cons:
No dark version in the mobile app is the only thing we would want as developers.
First time on Zoho Sprint
Comments: I am stay with scrum metodology, and i am a begginer, but is very usefull to find new option, one know and other unknow, that make a new knowledge for me,
Pros:
zoho sprint is very easy to use. your interface si so good, I like that have very option to work on metodlogy agile, and i try to use more option and learn about this world
Cons:
I think, the app have some problem when we try to change element or item from sprint to to do task
Simple and Easy
Comments: I have used Zoho sprints in my earlier organization 5 years back. Now I am configuring this for my new organization as I like the simplicity of the product very much.
Pros:
simple UI and features that are easy to adapt.
Cons:
Somehow currently our requirement is about creating sprints from two or more projects which is not possible in zoho sprints.
BEST ERP EVER!
Pros:
* Intuitive interface as Zoho often praised for its user-friendly design, making it easy for teams of all sizes to get started and navigate the platform. * Integration with other Zoho tools * Affordable pricing
Cons:
Limited Customization, no resource management or advanced reporting
Codezyng is now using Zoho Sprints
Comments: It was good, on boarding was easy. This was the tool we chose as the pricing was bit convenient for us when compared to Azure.
Pros:
Simple Tool to manage just the sprints and not many technical jargons.
Cons:
Not many status for tasks , like "pending", "ready for QA" etc
zohosprints pros and cons
Pros:
Zoho Sprints has a user-friendly interface that's easy to navigate. The drag-and-drop feature for managing tasks is great, and it integrates well with other tools. Customizable dashboards and detailed reports help keep projects on track. The collaboration features make team communication simple and effective.
Cons:
It can be a bit overwhelming for new users, with a steep learning curve. Some customization options are limited, and there can be occasional performance issues with larger projects.
Zoho Sprints has been a game-changer for our project management needs!
Pros:
So user-friendly, great for tracking sprints, and collaboration is a breeze. Love the integrations with other Zoho apps.
Cons:
I wish the reporting feature was more customizable and there were more third-party app integrations available.
Best way to Replace Jira and Reduce the cost without even missing Jira.
Comments: It's a final and total replacement of Jira and that's more than enough for us.
Pros:
It has everything an agile software development team needs. It coherently works with the onboarding and attendance of employees along with project management, which is a plus. And its less complex and less expensive than Jira, which we previously used.
Cons:
If they can develop resource management or something of that sort that can provide us at a glance view of who is free in our team even for an hour then that would increase our productivity multifold, not to mention reduce idle time.
Alternatives Considered: monday.com, ClickUp and Asana
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Sprints: It was difficult to handle multiple systems and the interface of Jira was difficult to use.
Switched From: Jira and Google Workspace
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: Prices compared to features.
Good Product
Comments: Good Product, Recommended for all types of startups.
Pros:
price, easy to use, and have all options to manage a scaled project with a dynamic team.
Cons:
Revised Pricing is way too high. The previous slab was good.
Alternatives Considered: Jira
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: Pricing and All features that i need for my Team and Project management.
Make your life Agile with Zoho Sprints
Comments: Organization problems mostly. Benefits of simplicity, what I like the most. I solved the problem to have to think about project management software at a very good price.
Pros:
I am like falling in love with this. I think it is amazing that Zoho brings this amazing platform to organize projects. For me, it was a great to find out about it, and then when I start using and understanding, just so easy to apply agile methodology to my work. The best is the simplicity of it. Easy to customize your projects. I love the apps for mobile, get things faster.
Cons:
So far nothing. maybe there should be more ways to create templates, it has it, but it is kind of hidden. I do not like that the platform does not have a desktop app for Mac or PC, that would be awesome.
Alternatives Considered: Wrike and Asana
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Sprints: Costs, benefits, features, stability.
Switched From: Bitrix24
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: Simplicity and Price, Love the idea to be Agile and use the SCRUM methodology for all my projects. Also, what I need is task management so this is perfect.
Budget Friendly Task Management
Pros:
All the needed features are present for Agile development
Cons:
We have just started using this so did not face any challenges. One major challenge was account zone db mismatch.
Great Scrum APP
Pros:
All the extras that have like the time scheduling, Status Timeline, Project Feed and Activity Stream and others.
Cons:
I didn't find any yet. I think that this app was very well done.
Good Project Management Tool
Pros:
Zoho sprint is good for agile approach best part it's UI
Cons:
it will be better if it will work like azure devops I can able to use repo and pipline UI in the same platform
Great Project and Task management tool
Comments: Although I am a beginner, it stands as a great platform for task and project management and reporting
Pros:
Easy to use app that let you add multiple projects and having control which team members can join a project. Easy to set tasks
Cons:
So many options that I will need to spend time to learn about them. We expect to have customer support helping us getting most of that great platform
Affordable Agile Project Management Tool
Comments: So far so good, Have all essential features to Run a Agile - Scrum Framework !
Pros:
ZOHO Sprints is ideal for mid-size companies, who wish to run Agile Project management, THey have all the essential features & Capabilities which is required to run the show. The main highlight is their Pricing ! It is affordable and great value for money for the features they provide. The best part is You can import everything from JIRA, within just 5 minutes. Special mention to the ZOHO Support team and Demo team, they did a amazing job in helping us move into ZOHO Sprints
Cons:
The Item Description area - Text editing can be richer with the ability to prepare tables and copy-paste screenshots
Alternatives Considered: Zoho Projects, Trello and Asana
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Sprints: Cost
Switched From: Jira
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: Great value for money
Zoho Review
Comments: The overall experience has been excellent till now.
Pros:
The overall visibility of the software. Use of filters, which are very detailed in this software
Cons:
Not any. The overall experience has been good till now.
Best Agile Software
Pros:
It's energy, the ease of use and the overall stylish looks
Cons:
I liked everything about this software! :)
Keep it simple, get the basics right
Comments: Very Happy
Pros:
Ease of Use, intuitive user interface, Complexity made simple
Cons:
Not much, maybe a bit light on information radiators
Zoho Sprints does its job
Comments: Great experience.
Pros:
Ability to manage tasks and issue along their cycle and also dimension the work by using points.
Cons:
Reporting is good but it has room to improve.
Recommending Zoho Sprints
Pros:
Ease of use and feature set. Set up and getting started is very easy.
Cons:
Most good features are part of the premium package, hence one has to take that.
Review from a beginner
Comments: Easy to create the Epics for the product I have created. Great UI and UX while planning and conducting the sprints.
Pros:
Great looking, very intuitive, user friendly. It has every functionality a product / project manager needs.
Cons:
So far no. But in time, when I gain more experience I will share my opinion.
An economical and good product for small team with budget constraints
Comments: Its good till now
Pros:
The software is built on similar functionality as Jira so its easy to migrate user to it.
Cons:
The biggest disadvantage is, you can predefine a project or task as billable/non-billable. Which often leads to human error and wrong data.
Alternatives Considered: Freedcamp and Catchup
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Sprints: Cost is economical
Switched From: Jira
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Sprints: It is closet to Jira
