Tools are supposed to make our jobs easier, and are supposed to work for us. Yet some tools mandated for their teams by organisations make you feel like you are working for them. Favro though, take the user experience from ‘where do I start’ to ‘when can I start’! I have used quite a few different tools, and have used Jira since the early days. But from the first moment you open Favro, you just sit back, look at the templates, and say ‘wow’.
Favro promotes itself as the most agile all-in-one app ever made! It is a project management and workflow tool that can be used for almost any team in your organisation.
Favro Features
Favro is built around cards (in Jira this would be called an issue). Users create cards, add details to it, including pictures and attachments. Cards are versatile, visual, and can be used in multiple views or boards at the same time. This feature allows cards be shared by multiple teams or departments, and the teams or departments can use the view that works best for them. For example a development team might use a Kanban board, but the product department might use a product roadmap.
Some other features of cards are:
- Can be highly visual – i.e. show images, use colours, etc.
- Customisable fiels.
- Timeline field includes not just the start, the due date, but an actual date rate in the one field. You can optionally add time.
- For each card you can break it down into a board – i.e. break down a card into a board with phases, or process steps that you visualise as a Kanban board.
- Email the card easily.
Types of Favro Boards
- Gantt or Timeline
- Kanban
- Sheets
Collections and Favro Boards
A collection in Favro is a set of boards displayed in a single view. A board can exist in multiple collections, so different departments can see each other’s boards. As an example, the backlog, Kanban board and the product roadmap can be seen in one team’s collection. The product team can see the product roadmap and that team’s backlog.
Workflow
Simple, repetitive tasks can be automated in Favro. For example when the status of a card is changed to ready for review, it can be automatically assigned to the right person to do the review.
Connect your calendar to the app
Integrated function to request features.
What Makes Favro Special
Favro is flexible enough that you can fit it to your organisation’s flow. It is suitable for many different types of teams in the organisation, including marketing, game development, HR, sales, finance, and of course product development. The fact that it links with Jira means that it can be integrated into organisations that already use a task tracking tool, but add the flexibility to make workflow easier to fit to your teams.
Is Favro Free?
There is a free 14 day trial.
Favro Pricing
Favro has three packages:
- Lite
- Standard
- Enterprise
The pricing for these levels depends on the number of users, from 2 users up to 100+. The cheapest is currently $10.20 USD, up to the “contact us” price for Enterprise with 100+ users.
Favro Integration
- Slack: Updates from Favro can be posted directly into Slack.
- Jira: Two way sync between Jira and Favro
- Google Calendar and Microsoft Calendar: Sync Favro Cards with you calendar.
- GitHub and GitLab source control: Attach your commits and requests to pull or merge to Favro cards, and automatically move the cards through your process when the code is merged into branches.
- Zapier: And of course there’s Zapier, which you can use to connect Favro to many other tools.
Security
- Two-factor authentication
- Single sign on
- OAuth via Google and GitHub
- Data stored in their secure cloud in the EU. Complies with EU GDPR requirements.
More Details here: https://www.favro.com/security
