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The Effect of Agile on Marketing Teams (Infographic)

We recently surveyed over 800 marketers regarding work management, cross-department collaboration struggles, technology integration satisfaction, and how Agile methodologies are helping them improve flexibility and collaboration across their teams.

How to Spot Early Signs of Project Failure

Project failure is common, but it can be avoided. Find out more about the project management risks and issues every PM should be aware of and how Wrike can help.

How Wrike Became a Best Practice Example of Collaborative Work at Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Wrike’s work management platform has helped Siemens Smart Infrastructure to standardize and automate critical project processes, increasing competitiveness and productivity along the way.

Your Best Digital Advertising Results Start With a Conversion Mentality

Instead of a “get more clicks” mindset, digital advertising teams should focus on conversion marketing. Find out why with Wrike.

Become a Wrike Fan on Facebook!

We welcome you to become a Wrike fan on Facebook. You’ll be able to connect to other people who think that Wrike is the most practical project management software, ask them about their Wrike tips and tricks, upload your pics, chat about Wrike’s new features, and find out about our events!

New Wrike: Avatars

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Productivity Experiments that Shaped the Way We Work

As the Industrial Revolution swept America in the late 1700s to the early 1800s, managers started to become more interested in productivity. Over the coming decades, Congress passed safety regulations that sought to improve working conditions and put a cap on the amount of hours that employees could work each day. At the same time,

Project Management 2.0 Listed Among the Best Project Management Blogs

. The author of the post, Heather Buckley, is the director and co-founder of a British IT and business training provider, Silicon Beach Training. She picked bloggers who offer something unique and engaging on project management topics. It’s nice to see my Project Management 2.0 blog on the list! The abstract provided in the post

VentureBeat Reviews Wrike’s Microblogging Feature

New features come before the general release

We have just released a pack of long-expected features. They will help you manage and visualize your plans and track progress. We also hope they will please you with their usability and intelligence. 1) In many respects, our main innovation, a timeline, is unique among online collaboration tools. You may feel lucky when you

When to Use a Project Calendar vs. a Gantt Chart

With so many options, how can you identify which project scheduling tool best suits your needs? Here, we’ll break down the differences between a project calendar and a Gantt chart, as well as outline a few scenarios when each one is more suitable.

Pluralsight Fuels Rapid Growth with Work Automation

Business is increasingly digital, and systems generate mountains of data every day. Smart leaders know they can use this data to their advantage, but it’s a rare few who actually know how.

How to Manage Ad Hoc Requests Before They Derail Your Marketing Team

Your team is heads down and focused, working hard to get the job done before a campaign launch. They’re making good progress, and with a little luck, you might actually hit your deadlines. Then suddenly, it strikes... the ad hoc request. The cubicle drive-by, the quick email or chat message, the “Hey, I was going to

When Failure is the Key to Success: Lessons from Famous Flops (Infographic)

College dropouts, fired employees, bankrupt businesses. Even those people we perceive as the embodiment of success have experienced extreme lows—and used those experiences to fuel their future achievements.  This infographic highlights 6 famous figures whose failures turned out to be temporary setbacks on the way to grand accomplishments, as well as tips to turn your own

The Timeline Goes Live

We have developed a Timeline, which is mostly known as a Gantt Chart. Now you can: - have the big picture of parallel projects, - track the work load of your team members, and - create elegantly designed outlines of plans. All these tasks are a huge challenge when using other online project management and collaboration tools, aren’t they? Here

Cutter IT Journal Features Project Management 2.0 Article

This time, the focus of the debate was the emerging, innovative approach to project management known as Project Management 2.0. The issue dedicated to this extremely interesting topic included articles by experienced project managers and influential researchers and analysts, including Andrew Filev, the CEO and founder of Wrike. Andrew's article

Lead Effective Weekly Meetings in Wrike

Through adding an extra layer of organization, you and your team can easily manage weekly workflow and run team meetings right from within Wrike — hassle free.

Project Management Templates: #PMChat on PM Templates Discussion Recap

Learn from the experts in this recap of the recent Project Management Twitter chat hosted by @PMChat. Topics include: Whether project managers have a standard set of templates for each project Recommendations about what to include in project status updates What types of templates PMs use for each project Project Management Templates: #PMChat on PM Templates Discussion Summary View more lists

Notifications have become much more intelligent

We are happy to tell you that now you can customize the notifications that you receive. If you are overwhelmed with the notification e-mails, you can switch to a daily digest, instead of immediate delivery, by going to the Account section (My Profile tab). We have also changed the default notification criteria. Starting today,

How to Be an Effective Marketing Leader (Without Micromanaging)

How can marketing leaders tiptoe that line of being visible, without micromanaging? Here’s what you need to know.