The 3 Most Effective Principles To Encourage Your Team's Creativity
“Have fun, create and inspire” – that’s how we describe our work at Realmdigital, a software solution provider. Software development is by definition an area for innovative and creative minds. Nevertheless, it’s not an easy thing to keep coming up with great new ideas in the day-to-day routine. That’s why in our work we follow several
7 Product Management Best Practices for Beginner PMs
Product management is no walk in the park. Part strategist, part analyst, part marketer, part business executive, the product manager balances business objectives with customer needs to create innovative products that users love. The best product managers are constantly learning and improving the way they work. If you’re just starting a career in product management or
Product Management 101: How to Become a Product Manager
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Product managers are technical people, so there’s no need to involve them in business, marketing, or sales decisions. Product managers spend all their time writing requirements. Creating a roadmap is just a matter of sprinkling some features on a timeline and adding a few dates. Product managers are all former engineers. It’s time
The History of the Word 'Hack' (Infographic)
Odds are, the word hack immediately brings to mind either cybercrime and stolen passwords or tech shortcuts and everyday timesavers. But did you know the word's history stretches far back into the middle ages, centuries before computers and the internet? It first appears as early as the year 1200, meaning "to cut roughly, with chopping
Product Launch Success: Using Wrike to Connect Marketers and Developers
Launching a new product is a huge undertaking, with the future of the business often riding on its success. You need every team pulling together to coordinate efforts and prevent costly mistakes. Efficient collaboration is essential, especially between two key teams: developers and marketing. Developers to listen to customer feedback and build the ideal solution,
The Complete Guide to Scrum Ceremonies
Two cornerstones of the Scrum framework for project delivery are adaptability and accountability. Scrum ceremonies, sometimes referred to as Scrum rituals, enable Scrum teams to remain nimble as they move through the project life cycle. Scrum ceremonies are also where team members hold themselves accountable for their contributions to the project. In this complete guide to
Version Tracking for Files
We have improved the file-sharing system in Wrike, so you can now track versions of files attached to tasks and project folders. As you know, Wrike project management software lets you attach any kind of files to tasks and folders, so that everyone on the team knows the latest version of specifications, agreements, brochures, logos, etc.
Agile Project Management vs. Process-oriented: Why Not Both? (Video)
Agile project management is all about breaking free of rigid, step-by-step processes and shaking off that old "How We Do Things Here" so you can embrace creativity and ingenuity. Throw those dusty, outdated process manuals out the window! Right? Not so fast. As our productivity coach Errette Dunn explains, the Agile project management triangle still requires clearly
Accurately Manage Your Backlog by Email and Table View
We finished 2010 with unveiling a couple of very helpful new project management features: the add-in for Outlook 2010 and the ability to export filtered task lists to Excel. In this post, we’ll introduce the first updates of 2011 that many of you were suggesting to Wrike’s support team. Whenever you get a valuable project idea
Wrike and GitHub: Collaborative Coding Gets Much Easier with Wrike’s API
Update 12/16/2014: We are happy to announce the release of our API v.3 with better functionality and feature support for developers. Unfortunately, this update means the integration with GitHub is no longer supported. You can still use Zapier to connect Wrike with GitHub. If you have any questions, please contact our Support team. Many software teams