Networking, Education and Project Management Resources at the PMI Global Congress
Though my view of project management is not canonical and sometimes generates hot debates around it, I do believe that PMI is doing a good job at building connections between project managers and allowing them to share their experience and skills with each other. PMI events play a significant role in moving the whole industry
G2 Awards Names Wrike “Highest Rated” in 12 Categories
At Wrike, we’re no stranger to the G2 awards, having been named as part of their annual Best of Software in three categories. This time around, for their quarterly edition in Q3, we won 63 badges across 12 categories! Now, you might be saying to yourself, “I thought Wrike was just a project management tool.”
Do You Have Absolute Project Transparency?
“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
Wrike's Voice on PMHut
This time, Andrew was invited to write for The Project Management Hut. PMHut is a remarkable online collection of articles, covering the whole process of managing a project, from initiation to closure, including all the necessary templates. The posts are written by elite project managers. The site is an excellent resource for any project manager
Project Management 2.0 Blog Is in the Top 100 List
Jurgen Appelo writes an interesting blog on software engineering. He recently did a great job of analyzing and ranking blogs for development managers. The result of his efforts is the impressive list of 100 most popular blogs in this area. I think it must have been hard to search those for blogs and to evaluate each
One Step Closer: Wrike's Mobile App is Now Tailored for iPad
Wrike’s iPhone and Android apps help you stay on top of your projects and tasks with ease from any place you choose. We know how eager you are to see Wrike’s iPad app as well. Good news! We are working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible. Even better news…we created a
When Rules of Thumb Can Be as Effective
Another valuable heuristic is to analyze the scope of the work and come up with the minimal project scope that’s most important. Then try to schedule this “must have” scope before some other work that your stakeholders could live without. Let’s say you’re planning to paint the walls in your living room and whitewash the
Wrike Named Leader in Project Portfolio Management
Wrike is honored to be the recipient of a Customer Experience Award for Complete Software and Service Experience by Software Reviews, a division of Info-Tech Research Group. Based on user feedback, we ranked first in Vendor Capabilities and Product Features under “Overall Satisfaction” and “Plan to Renew.”
Using our own product
Guess what we are using to manage Wrike product development efforts? You're right - Wrike. I personally have used Wrike to manage my personal tasks as well as to share other tasks since its first prototype. By using Wrike I have gradually been able to build my personal hierarchy. About a month ago we hit
Announcing Wrike's Certification in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework
Today we're pleased to announce that Wrike has been added to the list of companies that are certified under the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The Framework, which was announced on July 12, was crafted by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission to allow companies in the US and Europe to comply
Wrike and Chrome - Excellent Combination for Productivity
Google Chrome has already won the hearts of thousands of early adopters. Chrome has a number of innovative features that Google says were developed to solve several serious problems related to browsing the Web. If you are one of the Web-workers who have already chosen Chrome as a primary browser, do not deprive yourself the
Wrike Launches Solution Partner Program
Thousands of organizations trust Wrike with their work. We know it's not just because of our award-winning and intuitive software or our superb customer support. It's all the ways we've helped teams perform and function better as a unit. Just in the past 20 months, our Consulting team has helped hundreds of customers in the U.S.
Wrike Walk-through Videos Featured on GetApp!
The team at GetApp recently sat down (virtually) with our Director of Customer Support, Nic Bryson and did a video walk-through of Wrike and the various features and use cases. This video series a great way to get a sense of the capabilities of our system and to see how your team can use it
Become Wrike Certified With Our New Customer Certification Program
Whether you're a long-time user or taking your first steps towards Wrike mastery, let your team and organization know you're the expert when it comes to all things Wrike with our new Wrike Customer Certification program and badges.
Project Management 2.0 Books Series and Giveaway
trend, as well as help you in your everyday project management battles. In addition, to make the series more exciting, I decided to run occasional book giveaways. All you will have to do to be eligible for such a giveaway will be to comment on a review. The author of the best comment will get a
Can Adoption of Project Management 2.0 tools Guarantee Success of Your Projects?
Many analysts, including myself, say that project management 2.0 tools make teams more productive and make organizations agile and more competitive. But does this mean that they prevent project failure? Probably not. There are several aspects of project work, including tools, processes and people. Project managers still argue which one is the most important. Experts say that
What Twitter Users Think about Wrike
ClayCollins @lkr thanks for the tip. I'll have to check out wrike! JillMeyer Follow Friday: @wrike - Excellent project management tool. We use it to our satisfaction! pm4girls @DaveG253 will be talking about social media branding and Wrike at #pminac. #pmi #pmot commsabilities RT @wrike: free white paper about using Web 2.0 in project management: https://bit.ly/2RU0u IAC_Heather Okay
New word in live web applications development: semi-public beta
The web 2.0 world is use to public betas. A company builds a product, makes it live, starts promoting it and polishes things on the way (on the way to where). Its a good approach, but sometimes it might be painful for users. You can allow this to happen if you have a strong
Create a Task on the Timeline
Today, we offer a new, handy feature on Wrike’s Gantt chart. Now you can create a task on the timeline with one mouse gesture! Advanced Web technologies (AJAX) allowed us to implement this feature and improve your experience with Wrike. Adding tasks to the timeline became as easy as creating dependencies and rescheduling plans. How it
Slide Deck and Paper from the UTD Project Management 2.0 Presentation
on August 18. The audience was terrific. I was pleased to find out that many project managers who attended my presentation had previous experience in using wikis and other Project Management 2.0 tools in their work. We had an interesting 30-minute Q&A. Those of you who missed the fun can download the Project Management 2.0 presentation,
Wrike's Project Management Features Enhanced with Wiki
What is a wiki? A wiki is a collection of Web pages that allow teams to keep, share and update information. As information is updated, everyone on the team gets a notification about the change. People do not have to ask the administrator’s permission to update a wiki’s page, so contributions to it can be made
The Agile Origins of Project Management 2.0
In my previous post that was also cross posted on CloudAve, I brought up the topic of enterprise agility. My conclusion was: to be agile and adapt quickly to the ever-changing business environment, you need to be able to blend top-down control with bottom-up agility in a "Ying and Yang" style. I also mentioned the