3 Work Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Tools That Should Be Extinct
Your workplace has dinosaurs — those outdated work tools or processes that used to be able to handle the job but are no longer viable in this day and age of increased connection and collaboration. It's time to update your jurassic methods, or else get ready for extinction.
How Professional Services Teams Are Breaking the Customer Churn Cycle (Infographic)
We surveyed over 1,000 professional services teams to learn about the top challenges they face around client retention, resource management, collaboration, technology, project processes, and more.
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7 Keys to Project Stakeholder Management from the #PMChat Community
Two Wrikers helped host a #PMChat discussion on Twitter last Friday, where a community of project managers comes together once a week to discuss and share knowledge on various topics related to project management. Our team asked everyone to share advice on best practices and common roadblocks in a challenging project management area: stakeholder management. Experienced
Online Project Management Courses for Beginners
With the global economy navigating a new normal, businesses around the world need project managers who can think strategically and execute successfully. As a result, the project management field is growing quickly, with increased demand and rising salaries drawing more people to the profession. If you’re interested in breaking into project management, you’re probably asking
Involving Clients in Projects: A Step-by-Step Guide
Both you and your customers hope you do the right thing for moving a project forward. However, the views on what exactly that right thing is might be different on both sides. In the worst case scenario, mismatched expectations get your client frustrated. And you don't want that to happen, do you? In order to
Key to Adopting New Project Management Software from Day 1
Yet Adrian McDonagh, Managing Director at the U.K.’s leading Internet recruitment service, EasyWebRecruitment.com, was able to find a solution that was thoroughly adopted by his team of 15 people from the first day of use. Does he know some kind of secret? Well, this secret is simple: successful adoption is not about the tool. It’s about
How to Improve Your Collaborative Project Management
There are three main factors that determine the success of a new project or campaign: Excellent top-down and bottom-up communication, so everyone is on the same page with progress, challenges, and achievements; Organized and collaborative project management to make sure all work is completed on time and within budget; Collaboration between team members and across departments to bring
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
Raising the Security Bar in Collaborative Work Management
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about a new security breach. 2018 saw a total of 1,244 reported data breaches in the U.S., according to a recent report by nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center and security and privacy services firm CyberScout. While this number was down from 2017’s all-time high of more than
Key Findings on How to Succeed in Managing Internet Marketing Projects
Want to know what it takes to successfully manage online marketing project? Rich Byrd, the President of Fast Forward Marketing, Wrike’s new client, and Nic Bryson, Wrike’s VP of Customer Care, are sharing their key findings and long-term expertise on how to best keep projects and your team organized: Break a project down into discrete, clearly defined tasks, instead of having
Tips for Introducing Granular Workload Organization to Your Project Team (Inspired by the Discussion at PMI LA Chapter)
Meet-ups with fellow project managers keep bringing up thought-provoking discussions and interesting ideas on how to maximize the efficiency of project teams. This time, I want to share some notes from the February dinner meeting of the PMI LA Chapter. After my presentation that focused on the ways of making distributed teams efficient, one of
Selected tasks are at your hand
Dear fans of Wrike, Sorry for the long silence. Now we are ready to please you with several new tools. The best ones are filters. In a couple of clicks you can create a list of tasks for which Mary Smith is responsible and that are overdue; or select tasks that were created by you, and
#PMChat: Join the Conversation About Project Stakeholder Management
The success or failure of a project can depend on efficient stakeholder management. Stakeholders include the project team getting work done, the project team's managers providing resources and directions to the team, and anyone and everyone who could be impacted by the outcome of the project — whether they are the client, or a different