FlexiProject as a Monday alternative: the comparison

FlexiProject is an advanced Monday alternative, built for the whole project lifecycle. Alongside boards and tasks you get a project charter, an approved baseline, a budget with revenues and a risk register.

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FlexiProject vs monday.com

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Gantt chart and Kanban board
Unlimited WBS depth
Working days and holiday calendar in the schedule
Critical path
Schedule baseline with deviation
Plan change request with version history
Project charter as a configurable document
Approval of schedule and budget baselines
Risk register as a built-in module
Project products as a separate plan dimension
Costs and revenues in one project budget
Budget phased by month
Budget versioning with change history
Project templates with schedule, budget and risks
Project portfolios
Project programs as a separate management level
Scoring and prioritization of project ideas
Recurring project reviews with report templates
Resource and workload management
On-premises server version
A Monday alternative across the whole project portfolio

FlexiProject is a Monday alternative with plan approval, a project budget and a risk register as ready-made modules. Book a demo and test them on your own projects.

FlexiProject

FlexiProject strengths

A good Monday alternative includes a schedule with no depth limit and a budget with revenues. Add a risk register, a project charter and project products: modules a PMO uses every day.

A schedule with no WBS depth limit

You break the project into as many levels of phases, sub-phases and tasks as the scope needs. Task dates account for a working days calendar with holidays. You see people’s workload on the Gantt chart, so you fix the plan before a moved task threatens a deadline.

Project schedule in FlexiProject project management tool with department, owner, and progress columns organized by project phases

Costs, revenues and actuals in one budget

You compare planned costs and revenues with actuals, month by month. You link every budget line to the schedule task it concerns. Approved budget versions go to the archive, so after a change you can show leadership what was approved before and what changed.

Project budget module in FlexiProject project management tool with custom attributes: cost center, expense type, vendor, and Capex/Opex classification

A risk register in every project

You record every risk in the project with its probability, impact, owner and response plan. You link the risk to the schedule task it affects. You see the risks of every project in the portfolio tab, so leadership reviews them together.

Risk tab in project portfolio view in FlexiProject project management software showing 5x5 risk matrix by impact and probability with detailed risk list

A project charter from ready-made components

You assemble the project charter from ready-made components, in the layout your organization already uses. You prepare separate templates for R&D, investment and marketing projects. Approved versions of the charter go to the archive, so you can always check in the system the scope a sponsor agreed to.

Project charter in FlexiProject PPM with sections for project information, schedule with milestones, risk matrix, and budget and benefits

Project products with acceptance criteria

You list what the project has to deliver: documentation, a prototype or new infrastructure. Every product has acceptance criteria, an owner and a deadline, and you link it to schedule tasks. The sponsor sees which products are already accepted, without adding up task completion percentages.

Project product list in the FlexiProject PPM system showing different project deliverables, including product specification, prototype, product design, product module, new solution, pilot version, product improvement, test version, production package, final product, product documentation, and product release, with assigned owners.
key strengths

A method that covers the whole project lifecycle

In FlexiProject you run a project from idea to closure. An idea goes through scoring and an approval path. An approved project gets a charter, a schedule with a baseline, a budget and a risk register. You discuss progress at recurring reviews. The team works tasks on the Gantt chart and the Kanban board, and leadership sees the status of every initiative in portfolio dashboards.

KPI portfolio management dashboard in FlexiProject PPM software showing project portfolio KPIs, business metrics and strategic alignment
flexible configuration

System configuration with no developer

You set up fields, views, dashboards, approval paths and templates yourself, with no developer. You fit the configuration to the process the organization already runs. Each division gets its own workspace with project charters and templates, while head office keeps the shared standard. That is why FlexiProject is a Monday alternative for organizations with several divisions, each working its own way.

When does a project management system become essential?

A Monday alternative for select industries

Construction and capital projects

A construction project has a fixed handover date and a budget approved by the investor. In FlexiProject you keep the plan, the budget and the risk register of every site in one system. The site office and head office see the same numbers.

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Construction industry visualization with building sites and project delivery

Energy and utilities

Building grids, power plants and energy storage takes years, and regulations often set the deadlines. In FlexiProject you run multi-year schedules, approve plans through an approval path and report on the whole investment portfolio.

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Wind farms with turbines and renewable energy production landscape

Manufacturing and production

Launching a new product ties together suppliers, tooling and a fixed production start date. In FlexiProject you see the schedule, the budget and the risk register of that project side by side. The plant and the project team plan from the same data.

Explore manufacturing
Manufacturing industry visualization with production facilities and industrial processes

Research and development

You run R&D projects under high uncertainty. In FlexiProject you score ideas before they start and again during delivery. Based on that you decide whether to continue the project, change its scope or stop it.

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R&D companies industry visualization with research laboratories and innovation projects

FlexiProject as a Monday alternative: frequently asked questions

FlexiProject as a Monday alternative

Is FlexiProject a good Monday alternative?

Yes. FlexiProject is a good Monday alternative when a PMO runs the projects and leadership needs one picture of the whole portfolio. FlexiProject is project management software built around the project lifecycle. You get a project charter, plan approval, a budget with costs and revenues, a risk register and portfolios. You submit a change to an approved plan as a request, and the history records who approved it and when.

Is FlexiProject a good Monday alternative for portfolio management?

Yes. FlexiProject is a good Monday alternative for portfolio management, because you select projects for the portfolio by scoring. In a simulation you switch selected projects off and see how portfolio indicators change. The portfolio budget carries a reserve and an expected NPV, and related projects group into programs. You run all of it in strategic project management software.

Is FlexiProject simple for everyday team work?

Yes. Contributors work on a task list, a Gantt chart and a Kanban board software in the system. You update a task, comment on it and attach a file, and you can log progress from the mobile app too. Project managers and the PMO handle charters, scoring, budget versions and approval paths. Everyone sees their own tasks from every project on one list.

Can we use FlexiProject alongside monday.com?

Yes. The team can keep running everyday work on boards in monday.com. You then run schedules, budgets, risks and project decisions in FlexiProject. You record a discussion about a risk, a budget line or a product against that object in the project communication module. The project chat is archived together with the project.

Scheduling and planning

Does FlexiProject have a baseline and a critical path?

Yes. The schedule records a baseline, shows deviation from it and tracks the critical path. In monday.com these features need the Pro or Enterprise plan. FlexiProject also gives you all four dependency types, an unlimited WBS structure and a working days calendar behind every date. You run all of it on an interactive Gantt chart tool.

How many levels does a FlexiProject schedule structure have?

As many as the project needs. You nest phases, sub-phases, work packages and tasks with no depth limit in the project planning software. Phase progress is calculated from the tasks below it, so you see status at every level. In monday.com the structure is items and subitems, without a full WBS. In FlexiProject you run even a multi-stage investment in one schedule.

Does the FlexiProject schedule account for holidays and non-working days?

Yes. Task dates are calculated against a working days calendar with holidays. Each person’s availability includes leave and their working pattern, and you import leave from Outlook. The monday.com schedule has no working days or holiday calendar. In the project template software you pick a country calendar for a new project, which helps teams working across several countries.

Can you see resource workload while you plan?

Yes. You see workload directly on the schedule, against each person’s availability: full time, part time or leave. When you move a task, you immediately see who becomes overloaded. Assigning a task beyond someone’s availability triggers a warning. The resource management software also reports workload by organizational structure, so a department head sees the whole unit.

Budgets, risk and plan approvals

What does a FlexiProject project budget look like?

The budget is a separate project module with cost and revenue categories. Next to the plan and the costs incurred you see a forecast of the final cost, and you phase amounts by month. You approve every budget change as a new version. In monday.com you keep budget figures in number columns and formulas on a board. FlexiProject budget data feeds standard reporting software and portfolio summaries.

How do you manage project risk in FlexiProject?

A risk register is part of every project. A risk carries probability, impact, an owner and a response plan, and an administrator sets the risk matrix and categories. You link a risk to the schedule task it affects. In monday.com you build a risk register from a board template. On risk, FlexiProject is a Monday alternative with a ready-made module. You collect the risks from every project in the project portfolio software.

How do you approve a plan and its changes in FlexiProject?

You approve the schedule baseline and the budget in approval workflow software before they take effect. A path can have several stages, and you name the decision maker by their role in the project. You submit a later change as a justified request, and you compare the current and proposed plan side by side on the Gantt chart. When someone asks six months later why a milestone moved, the answer is in the request history.

How do you prepare a report for leadership in FlexiProject?

Recurring reviews handle this. The PMO sets the date and scope, and project managers get a reminder to complete their data. The schedule, budget, risks and milestones feed the report automatically, in a company template. Leadership compares every project in the same layout. You find earlier reviews together with their decisions in the project review software.

Portfolio, PMO and reporting

How does FlexiProject decide which projects to launch?

You score every idea with a model you define yourself: criteria, weights and thresholds. Strategic fit, return, risk and resource availability can each carry a different weight. You send a scoring survey to several reviewers and see their scores side by side. You see the ranking of new ideas next to projects already running. You repeat the scoring during delivery in the same project scoring software.

Can FlexiProject run several projects as one program?

Yes. In the program management software you link the schedules of member projects into one shared plan. Dependencies tie tasks from different projects, so moving one date recalculates the rest. The same project can belong to several programs. In monday.com a program is not a separate planning level. In FlexiProject you check the effect of one project’s delay in a simulation before you change any dates.

How do you connect projects to company strategy in FlexiProject?

You record strategic goals in the system with a baseline, target and current value. The goal cascade runs from the organization through a division to a project and a task. Approving a new project can require naming the goal it serves. In the strategy management software leadership sees goals, KPIs and linked projects on one screen. You also see immediately which goals have no project behind them yet.

Migration and adoption

How do you move data from monday.com to FlexiProject?

Usually in two steps. You export boards from monday.com to Excel, then import them into FlexiProject and map columns onto task attributes. Schedules kept in MS Project import directly from .mpp files, with tasks, dependencies and owners. Tasks that do not belong to any project move into the operational task software. You save a finished project as a template for the next one.

Will the team need training?

Contributors need very little: they update a task, log progress, add a file and a comment. The app has contextual help with short videos, available on the screen you are working on. Project managers and the PMO also learn charters, templates and approval paths. You keep company standards in the knowledge base software, and the team reads them without leaving the system.

Do we need the same licence for everyone?

No. FlexiProject has three licence levels matched to the role in the project. Project managers, the PMO and sponsors get a full licence, and active contributors who report progress get a standard licence. People who only work on their own tasks use a free licence. You set the mix yourself, so with a hundred people you do not buy a hundred full licences. Find the details on the FlexiProject pricing page.

Deployment, languages and security

Does FlexiProject run on your own server?

Yes. For organizations that must keep data on their own premises, FlexiProject is a Monday alternative on your own servers, with no loss of functionality. monday.com runs only in the vendor’s cloud. You can start in the FlexiProject cloud and move to your own servers later, if requirements change. In the cloud version, data is stored in the European Economic Area. The on-premises version meets the local hosting requirement set by companies in regulated industries.

Can individual divisions run projects their own way?

Yes. Each division or subsidiary has its own workspace with its own project charters, templates, approval paths and user list. Head office sets the shared standard in a group workspace. One project can be visible in several workspaces. You grant permissions in the workspace software, so one person can hold full rights in one workspace and read-only access in another.

Can you log time spent on tasks in FlexiProject?

Yes. In the time tracking software you log hours against project tasks and operational work. You can also log time from the mobile app. For every task you compare planned time with actual time, and the data feeds the resource utilization report. The project manager sees where the team spends more hours than the plan assumed.

A FlexiProject demo on your own projects

Book a demo, and we will show you FlexiProject on your own projects. You will see the portfolio, idea scoring, approval paths and a budget with revenues. Invite project managers and PMO people who use these modules every day. After the meeting you will judge whether FlexiProject is a good Monday alternative for your organization.