Wrike for Project Management -- You can't go wrong!
Updated December 22, 2022
Wrike for Project Management -- You can't go wrong!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Wrike
I use Wrike to track implementation project status, so our project managers use it to coordinate cross-functional efforts along with our project plans. We also use it to request and track statuses for specific tasks outside of the normal project scope. In this sense, the project owner is able to request specific and necessary information from those of us who gather it up. Then that way, the actual delivery (in this case of analytics) has all the required information needed to set up and build.
Pros
- Cross functional team tracking
- Gantt charts
- Notifications when updates are made, and deep linking from those email notifications, so you don't get lost
- Project visibility and time based status
Cons
- You have to be assigned to a project to see it - so it can be hard to find something you are not working on (but that you potentially requested) if you are not assigned to it
- Mobile time tracking could be easier, but it is still accessible
- Time based tracking takes a bit of playing around to get
- Project status tracking
- Internal communication
- Due dates
- Overall positive, as relying on Slack for updates as opposed to having them immediately available is a big plus.
Wrike is specifically designed for project management, so it is a much easier flow and better user interfaces for this expressed purpose. My project managers really like the automated Gantt charts, whereas they are less useful to me, but it is still much easier to visualize them in Wrike than it was to create these in other platforms.
Do you think Wrike delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Wrike's feature set?
Yes
Did Wrike live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Wrike go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Wrike again?
Yes
Wrike Feature Ratings
Wrike Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - Honestly this did not take a lot of time -- we had an overview presented internally and began using it immediately.
- People entering in times on the wrong days or choosing to do it retroactively
- No serious issues
Using Wrike
20 - Wrike is primarily controlled by our project managers, and then users are implementation consultants, solutions consultants, technical account managers and other select members of the sales and customer success teams. But anyone attached to any of the projects can potentially be in the application, Customer Success and Sales are just the two primary groups.
4 - The project management group is definitely the strongest user group, but there is not a lot of support actually needed -- analytics has representation to, but that is more for processing requests as opposed to tracking formal projects. I think some basic training -- maybe less than an hour -- is all that is needed to understand most functions.
- Analytics Request Forms
- Implementation Plans (Project Tracking)
- Expansion Plans (Project Tracking)
- Creating submission forms requesting items from other team members
- Tracking training
- Time tracking
- Internal Training
Evaluating Wrike and Competitors
- Product Usability
For us, ease of use is always key for any application, otherwise people won't use it. Easy to navigate and easy to use, Wrike was an easy choice for our organization, though we didn't replace other existing tools like Jira which are used by other departments primarily. In that sense, Wrike has become the sales and customer success tool of choice for project management,.
No change
Wrike Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
None | None |
No -- didn't realize this was an option, but we have not had to use support.
Have not had a significant issue to cause us to use support
Using Wrike
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Project Tracking
- Creating Tasks
- Request Forms
- I don't love the Gantt charts, and don't think their creation is the easiest, but it might just be a training thing as they are easy to read.
Yes - Mobile works well, but is not as easy to navigate as the browser experience -- it is, however, still easy. I don't like entering in hours or tracking time from the mobile app, but otherwise think is it a great alternative to the browser if not sitting in front of your computer. The browser experience remains the primary way I interact with Wrike.
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