What I like most about Wrike is that employees can exchange their ideas online and immediately
receive feedback from each other.
How to Be More Productive Through Collaborative Planning
What I like most about Wrike is that employees can exchange their ideas online and immediately
receive feedback from each other.
Challenges
As Secondred Newmedia expanded its portfolio to numerous clients, including international ones, team collaboration became quite challenging. "I literally felt drowned with permanent information updates on projects and couldn't concentrate on high-level tasks, devoting too much time to the coordination process," says Daniel Schneider, the company's senior project manager. For further successful growing, the company urgently needed a more powerful tool that could provide them with an up-to-date, clear picture of the project's progress.
Secondred Newmedia’s solution
Getting the team players closely involved in the project planning was crucial for the company's international projects. Now, thanks to Wrike, team members can easily access all tasks and files online, update schedules quickly and discuss issues in real time. Wrike allows them to organize and share all data in a central place on the Web, and inspired them to introduce bottom-up planning, which is more agile and saves Daniel Schneider from a lot of routine work. "Wrike took the load of micro-management off me, so that I could switch from manager-centric to team-centric planning," he says.
- A successful, German-based Internet agency
- Provides a wide range of online design and marketing services
- Customers in Europe and the United States
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Time-saving E-mail Integration |
User-friendly interface |
Agile project plans |
In Wrike, you can create and schedule your tasks right from your e-mail inbox. According to Daniel Schneider, this way he spends a minimum amount of time on searching for the data he needs and notifying his team members about the changes. |
Wrike's UI is so intuitive that your team members will need no time to adopt it and start efficient collaboration from the first day. "Wrike's features are not only very powerful, but also easy to use. I knew right away, for example, how to assign a task to an employee, schedule a task on a Gantt chart or track task progress," says Daniel. |
"You need no more than a single mouse motion to change your plans in Wrike. You can easily reschedule them both in the folder tree and on neat cross-project Gantt charts," shares Daniel Schneider. Wrike also makes sure that all interconnected tasks in your project are kept up-to-date. It takes you just a few seconds more to prioritize backlogged tasks with the handy drag-and-drop function. |
Secondred Newmedia’s tips for efficient collaborative planning
Let the collective brain lead the play. |
Share documents in one central place. |
Don't waste time on micro-management. |
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A collaborative environment allows team members to develop great ideas that will lead the company to success. However, in most project management software, team members are only allowed to view the project plan. In Wrike, a task that's assigned to an employee or shared with a group of team members can be updated by any of them. "Team work becomes more productive, whereas I don't need to collect the updates and integrate them manually into the schedule," shares Daniel Schneider. |
It is not an uncommon thing for files to get lost in piles of e-mail correspondence. Wrike enables teams to keep all project-related information in one place, attaching files to tasks, tracking document versions and even sending files from e-mail inboxes. Unlike in e-mails, all project-related data is instantly available to any user. |
A considerable part of every manager's time goes to such routine jobs as sending daily to-do e-mails, updating team members about changes, reminding them about tasks, etc. With Wrike's automatic task notifications and real-time timeline, you can focus on high-level tasks. "When I reschedule a task on the timeline, all the team members see it in real time. With Wrike, plan changes are no longer a headache," says Daniel Schneider. |
Increase your efficiency through collaborative planning.