What is the crowd's opinion of VersionOne?

From 3.5 billion comments

Check the top comments in this thread. It's like people are hoping it will fail and every news of any setback is good news to them.

I sometimes wonder what causes that. Need to feel superior? Fear ED won't succeed if SC won't fail? Other insecurity-related irrational ideas?

I'm glad stuff at Frontier goes relatively smoothly. But what happens at CIG isn't that much unusual when it comes to development either. Frontier is the outliner (positive one), CIG is way closer to norm, see below:

Source:http://www.versionone.com/assets/img/files/CHAOSManifesto2013.pdf Note it talks about final deadlines, not internal ones

The 2012 CHAOS results show another increase in project success rates, with 39% of all projects succeeding (delivered on time, on budget, with required features and functions); 43% were challenged (late, over budget, and/or with less than the required features and functions); and 18% failed (cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used).

I see no comments yet so I'll jump in with an idea. First caveat: I'm not that familiar with eDiscovery software. But I'm not sure it matters: My experience has been that the software tools that programmers/developers build for themselves are often superior to the ones they build for lawyers. For example, I just tried (again) and ditched (again) Clio because it doesn't match the functionality I can get for my needs from a combination of Freshbooks & Highrise (with a few others from time to time, and Zapier to connect them). It probably helps that I came from the tech world before I went to law school, so I tend to draw analogies between software workflow problems/solutions and legal ones (though I'm not a programmer).

Software teams are really good at tracking complex matrixes at at least two points in their workflow: feature requests (sometimes called a backlog) and bugs. If nobody else chimes in with a whiz-bang discovery-specific product that works well for them, I'd think about looking into software tools that track either or both of those. My wife (still in software) uses and likes VersionOne at her work, which tracks both, and Zendesk is well-liked for tracking customer support requests (not quite bugs, but similar). Almost any software-oriented tool is going to have robust tagging and searching that you could leverage to associate discovery "stories" with different cases/parties/witnesses/etc.

Maybe not what you were thinking, and probably not turn-key, but something to think about.

I use VersionOne - both at the large tech company I work for, and for my startup. It's a great Agile project management tool used by a lot of tech companies especially. LeanKit is another one worth checking out. They both have different subscription options based on your needs. VersionOne actually has a free tier that I'm currently using for my startup.