Every project manager, be it a newbie or an experienced pro, knows that keeping tight control over project operations is essential for successful project completion. However, every manager who has run a project in e-mails, disconnected files and spreadsheets knows how hard it can be to control your operations when they are not transparent. The complexity of a task is doubled or even tripled, if you are trying to manage a distributed team, like Luther Cale from HealthStream. “We are distributed with a core hub of marketers in Nashville, Tenn., but also have team members in upstate New York, Colorado, Memphis and Baltimore" said Luther. "Being located across five states means lots of collaboration and management challenges. The main challenges were transparency and communication both within the team and outside the team. We were getting tons of work done (somehow!), but the left hand didn't always know what the right hand was doing.”
The situation changed with adoption of Wrike. When it’s clear to a manager what every team member is busy with and what exactly is going on with every project, and when project operations become more transparent, projects become more controllable and project management more adaptable.
Read the whole story of HeathStream to find out why they chose Wrike after having tested about 15 other options.
