Best task/project management software I've ever used.
January 31, 2019
Best task/project management software I've ever used.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Wrike
Our marketing department heavily uses Wrike for all of our project management. We use it to submit requests for projects, plan out timelines, track the status of projects throughout their cycle, and as a robust individual task management tool as well. Additionally, other teams use it throughout the organization, although to varying degrees. Our team also uses Wrike to collect requests from across the company for projects like the creation of collateral, sales enablement pieces, etc.
- Wrike makes it tremendously easy for multiple team members to collaborate on projects.
- Wrike makes it easy to maintain version control of documents that are part of our projects. The document editor plugin comes in especially helpful, as it integrates with Microsoft Word and makes it easy for one person to upload a document, another person to review/edit/comment on that document, then send along to the next person.
- The calendar function gives me a quick at-a-glance view of what I have to accomplish that day/week/month.
- Reporting is quite easy. Customized reports make it simple to get a quick yet detailed view of tasks and projects using a wide variety of criteria. And it's simple enough that team members can easily create their own reports without a complex training process.
- A wide variety of views (list view, Gantt charts, dashboards, kanban-like boards, etc.) allow for tremendous customization.
- There really aren't many parts of Wrike that I find frustrating. Like most powerful programs, there is a bit of complexity that can be daunting at first, but even this particular aspect wasn't terribly overwhelming.
- Setting up multiple workflows is powerful, but can be confusing if not done correctly (this is an area where some in-depth training is helpful)
- This is a minor point, but when adding custom fields, in subtasks the order of those custom fields gets shifted around in the task view, making it difficult to find specific data if there is a large number of fields.
- Wrike has saved our team SO much time. Our last project management software just didn't cut it... it was frustrating, and we eventually had to move away from it. When we began using Wrike, our entire team breathed a sigh of relief because it just works for us.
- We always know where projects stand. I don't have to send a message to a team member to find out whether they've completed a task... it's a matter of a few clicks to find out where things stand.
- Wrike allows our remote team members to seamlessly collaborate with our in-office employees, and this is just huge.
Our team used Asana in the past, yet as our team developed and grew (it's now about 30 people), some things were lacking. Workfront promised to be a full enterprise solution, but at the time it just wasn't there for us -- despite the fact that Workfront worked hard to help us get appropriately set up, things never clicked and it was a source of frustration. When we began using Wrike, things began falling into place. It took some time to get Wrike completely set up in the best way for our team, but even from the start, it was a huge step up.