Item: Wrike
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wrike is used for Project Management tracking progress and accountability on deliverables. In my case, I have blueprint of cycles that take place annually or twice a year that involve a lot of tasks, involve several people. Once the project is well established it works well triggering reminders and informing about dependencies that may have yet to be completed.

Pros and Cons

Reminders, although they can be excessive too!
Dependencies coordination
Blueprints

When a task has been marked as "on hold" or "cancelled" it continues to remind you, which I find quite annoying.
While making date adjustments in a blueprint, changes happen somehow that I can't understand so I end up going back and forth multiple times to adjust unexpected changes that just happened without a visible explanation.
Some tasks are allowed in without a due dates and of course they won't show up in the timeline

Return on Investment

Don't have direct visibility on ROI - but as an efficiency driver it must have some influence

Alternatives Considered

monday.com and Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager

Better suited for large project management - although I am not the decision maker in this case.

Key Insights

Do you think Wrike delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Wrike's feature set?

Yes

Did Wrike live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Wrike go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Wrike again?

Yes

Other Software Used

BambooHR, BetterWorks

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Wrike is even great as a To-Do list of daily tasks even if they're not part of a project. I believe that simplifying the process of creating tasks or dependencies could be helpful to optimize the use of Wrike. Sometimes I prefer not to engage with the tool because I know I'll have to spend some time setting it up and then just end up using Notes that won't give me all the benefits that Wrike would just because I don't want to go through the setup.

Extensive Task and Project Management tool!

Overall Satisfaction with Wrike