Review of project management system Wrike
May 20, 2024
Review of project management system Wrike
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Wrike
I work as head of web development in a very diverse company that aim to deliver full service to clients who pretty much needs an entire marketing department. As I specialize in the web department our needs align very much with what Wrike offers. Besides from general kanban boards, dashboards, gantt charts, we have also set up multiple request forms, automated tasks, reminders and are using Wrike for both resource planning and budget tracking. What we really find strength in Wrike is how much it has helped us keep track of tasks, history and progress. My question is usually "Is there a Wrike?", and also encourage my own team with the following, to make their time tracking easier by saying "Don't work on it, unless there's a Wrike about it". It's quite rigid, and we're not always able to pull through with it, but it has increased our billable and efficiency by quite a lot.
- Resource management
- Backlog and progress management
- Task management
- Project status and management
- Overviews
- The date filtering really needs a work over, which I have also been mentioning in the community forums
- There should be more customization features that is based on template tags, e.g. in terms of request forms, naming conventions etc. today it's too hard to build the structure that would be suitable for us, this also goes for automation tasks
- The features surrounding tasks should be better suited towards smaller tasks that isn't 1d, as the gantt charts tend to behave quite weirdly whenever we move tasks that are e.g. 3 hours with a depenent task
- Better overview of incoming tasks
- We have immensely decreased our lost tasks
- We have increased rate of on time deliverables
- We have gained much better understanding of budgets and estimates by time tracking
- We are much more confident when it comes to setting deadlines for our clients due to a great resource overview
We had only evaluated Monday and Asana on a surface level before we chose Wrike, so never went to try a trial, but from what we saw in terms of functionality and customizability they both didn't seem to match up with our varied needs as a very diverse company dealing with multiple types of work environments and needs. Where many companies might be focused on a single area of work, we deal as a full-service marketing agency with areas from development, photography, film, graphical design, marketing, campaigns, ads, creative consulting and so on.
For Notion and Trello, they just are very basic in terms of what we need. I use Notion for personal things, due to it's free tier and very simple set up, but io would never use it for any times for proper project tracking or reporting, as these functions are just not there.
For Notion and Trello, they just are very basic in terms of what we need. I use Notion for personal things, due to it's free tier and very simple set up, but io would never use it for any times for proper project tracking or reporting, as these functions are just not there.
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