How did Terrell Group transform its project management with Kantree?

Terrell Group has been using Kantree since 2019. Let’s explore their initial context, their use of Kantree, and the benefits they derive from it through this article.

Context

Terrell Group is an engineering company recognized in France and abroad for its technical expertise in the fields of structures, fluids, and facades. Founded in 1982, it now has 110 employees spread across 4 offices: Paris, Toulouse, London, and Beirut.

Among their emblematic projects, we notably find the Saint-Gobain tower at La Défense and the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange.

We interviewed Guillaume Niel, associate director at Terrell Group.

What was the situation before Kantree? What problems were you encountering?

Excel is often used in project management but its limitations are quickly felt

The starting point was the need to have a project management tool because everything was done using Excel until then.

The limits of Excel are felt in the non-existent collaboration possibilities and the numerous manual entries.

A Terrell Group employee was thus tasked with benchmarking existing tools on the market. The specifications were simple, the tool had to meet the following criteria:

• easy to use / easy for the business to adopt
• ergonomic
• need for flexibility to allow for increased customization
• bonus: a tool created and administered in France

After testing various existing project management products, Kantree was chosen.

Let’s now see why and how Terrell has been using Kantree daily since its beginnings in 2019.

The use of Kantree in engineering teams

Kantree’s flexibility has allowed them to organize teams in a macro way. Team members can now have visibility project by project.

In more detail, project members have a view for different phases of the project. This organization allows easy navigation between different views such as planning, Kanban, list,… in order to easily find data.

Setting up and managing cards in Kantree is very easy.

Gradually, the use of Kantree has extended to other applications. Indeed, it allows centralizing prospect management, won opportunities, and has become a true knowledge center for centralizing shared resources. Moreover, having several offices in different cities, Kantree provides visibility on different projects to other offices.

Example of a customizable card.

The benefits following the use of Kantree

Kantree has unlocked the field of possibilities compared to the initial situation in several aspects.

First, Terrell Group has a greater ability to adapt to changes. It is now easier to move tasks to reorganize, making them gain in flexibility and reactivity.

As an engineering company, they were able to save time on management thanks to the various shared schedules made possible by the timeline view.

Example of a timeline in Kantree.

Moreover, the use of customizable filters (thanks to the Kantree Query Language) allows them to display very precise and personalized information depending on the chosen context.

Example of KQL to easily switch from a sum to an average in a dashboard.

The resource centralization function helps energize the team. Indeed, this knowledge center is a kind of virtual coffee machine where colleagues tag each other and exchange, even when working fully in-person.

In this way, Kantree helps to streamline team cohesion.

To conclude, Kantree in 1 sentence

We warmly thank Guillaume Niel for the time given to this interview.

Editor’s note: to put Kantree on steroids, you can also count on the following features:

• automations
• Kantree’s API and its integrations
• Portfolio (in beta)
• Gantt view (in beta)
• forms
• dashboards