Why Choose Wrike Project Management

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Why You Should Choose Wrike as Your Project Management Tool?

How many people out there are trying to manage projects using tools that really aren’t suited to the job? For example, spreadsheets are commonly used to record project tasks where a company doesn’t have access to appropriate project management software tools.

Trying to manage a project in this way makes the project manager’s job all the more difficult.

Add to this the fact that the project team are, most likely, all communicating by email on the tasks they are delivering. How then do you, as the project manager, keep track of all this activity?  The answer is, you choose to invest in a project management tool that will help you to not only track the activities in your project, but also keep a handle on your project team’s relevant communications.

Wrike Project Management is an online web-based collaborative projective management tool that has an intelligent email engine allowing project teams to merge their email communications into the process of project planning.  So, one method of adding a task to your project is to cc Wrike in the email you send out. This isn’t a regular concept you’ll come across in other project management tools, but it is a very useful one. Of course, you can still add a new task to your project in the more traditional way, too!

Wrike works on the basis of workspaces and within one workspace, Wrike can support in the region of fifty projects.  Editing tasks is simple to do and tasks can be assigned to and shared with other users.

Wrike offers a number of project management features, including:

• The ability to manage mulitple projects
• Email tools
• Visual views including Gantt chart views showing project timelines and summary dashboard view
• File and document storage
• Import and Export facility for collaboration with Microsoft Excel
• Templates for reporting
• The ability to track time within the project
• An interactive and shareable calendar
• RSS feeds
• The ability to import from Microsoft Project

Wrike started simple and has evolved to include features that users have shown they need. The functionality to use emails as the basis for managing tasks is a good one – we all rely on emails daily so building task management functionality based around this can only be of benefit, but in Wrike’s case, it does need a little more work, for example, removing duplication from long email threads would be useful.

Wrike Project Management Price

Payment for Wrike comes in three main monthly options, starting at $9.95 per user per month and rising to $19.95 per user per month, and there’s a 15 day free trial period available.

Wrike is a strong collaboration tool that is easy to use. If you’re a confirmed user of Microsoft Outlook to manage your emails and tasks, you’ll probably like Wrike as it integrates quite well with Microsoft applications. Small companies that are building a project management capacity will find Wrike a useful and cost-effective project management and collaboration tool.