Is It Possible to Combine Top-Down and Bottom-Up?
Both approaches to project management may have their pitfalls. Perhaps the best way to manage your projects and business would be to use a hybrid method, which takes the best features from the two approaches. Learn more about leveraging the two approaches by reading Andrew Filev's article published in the influential Web 2.0 Journal.
4 Types of Clients You'll Work With and How to Delight Them
Professional services teams need tools to help them adjust to client communication styles while maintaining their workflow and project management best practices. Here are 4 types of client personalities and some actionable strategies to delight them without sacrificing productivity.
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3 Reasons Why Email is Dead
Once you need to collaborate with a team and oversee a dozen simultaneously moving parts, email suffers from a load which it wasn't meant to bear, and makes it increasingly difficult to find information or consolidate feedback. Let's examine exactly how email reached the end of its usefulness in project collaboration.
What Soft Skills do Project Managers Need?
As a project manager, you oversee projects from beginning to end. You walk the project through its entire lifecycle, from initiation to closure. It’s a big job, and there are various skills and tasks involved that help you get there. Sure, you’ve got a toolbox full of hard skills (also known as technical skills) in your
Microblogging in Project Management 2.0
A new tool came to our lives and greatly influenced the way we communicate. Twitter turned out to be next big thing of the social media world, and it looks like it’s here to stay. How can we explain Twitter’s immense popularity? Simplicity, convenience, speed? I’d say it’s all three of them that make the
9 Project Management Lessons Learned from the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes paperwork is overwhelming.” —Wernher von Braun, Chief Architect of Apollo's Saturn V Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins may have been the most visible figures of the 1969 moon landing, but the Apollo 11 team included thousands of people led by a select group of program and project managers at
German Internet Agency Successfully Adopted Bottom-up Planning with Wrike
When Secondred Newmedia adopted Wrike project management software, they successfully overcame all collaboration issues with Wrike’s help and discovered an optimal solution for their needs - bottom-up planning. With Wrike, all team members can contribute to general planning, making the firm more agile and saving Daniel Schneider from lots of routine work. “Wrike took the load
How Monash Motorsport Races to Victory Using Wrike
Monash Motorsport (MMS) is a non-profit student organization hailing from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where students band together to design, manufacture, test, market, and race their own Formula-style race car. How do they do that? Read on. The organization, which started in 2000 to compete in the Formula SAE Australasia student design competition, has won the
10 Fatal Product Launch Mistakes
Product launches are stressful. While success can propel your company to new heights, a botched launch can cripple your business. On top of all that pressure, pulling off the perfect launch is a complicated process, with plenty of room for error. With less than 3% of new consumer goods considered "highly successful" (i.e., exceeding first-year
10 Fatal Product Launch Mistakes (+New DroneCo Comic)
Product launches are stressful. While success can propel your company to new heights, a botched launch can cripple your business. On top of all that pressure, pulling off the perfect launch is a complicated process, with plenty of room for error. With less than 3% of new consumer goods considered "highly successful" (i.e., exceeding first-year
Trends in Modern Project Delivery (Infographic)
Wrike and ProjectManagement.com conducted a survey to determine emerging trends in project delivery today, and how organizations are staying successful. Here are our four recommendations for success along with survey-based insights.
12 Useful Project Management Boards on Pinterest
If you love organization (and I know all you Wrikers do), then you'll probably enjoy Pinterest. Users organize cool images, articles, and more into boards of related information. Our recent "11 Ways to Use Social Media to find PM Resources" blog post tells you HOW to find great project management resources on the social media