Rolling With the Punches: How Managers Overcome Their Anxieties of Change
If you find yourself huffing and puffing into a paper bag every time you need to switch up a process, this advice is for you. Let’s dive into why you feel hesitant about those changes—and how you can overcome those nerves.
5 Valuable Project Management Skills You Forgot About
Project managers have their work cut out for them — they must manage all the various project stakeholders and keep the project on track by successfully juggling and directing their roles and responsibilities. It's easy to get bogged down by office politics, looming deadlines, and last-minute project changes. As a project manager, focusing on professional development
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Agile Software Project Management Event: The APLN Seattle Leadership Summit
. It will be held in Seattle from July 17 - 18. The Summit promises to be an interactive event, with topics including Scrum, agile program management, the software development triangle, collaboration games and many others.
Project Management 2.0 for Kindle Users
Many of you probably have already bought a Kindle, Amazon's original wireless reading device, or at least heard about it. I personally love the idea of this device. You don’t have to buy and carry along tons of books you want to read. It’s all there inside of a single gadget, and it is available
Business Card Popups, User Profiles Now Enhanced with Twice the Info
Ever receive a comment on a Wrike task and wonder: "Who is this person? Which department is he in?" Clicking on the user's name gives you a popup showing the user's full name, email address, and enlarged photo. Now, you can gather even more info with our enhanced User Business Cards so you know exactly
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Wrike Was Chosen a Finalist in the 8th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards
The 8th annual eWEEK Excellence Awards has been organized to give enterprise IT professionals a comprehensive benchmark for assessing noteworthy enterprise technology products and services. The nominees' products demonstrate innovation and integrate cutting-edge technologies, and at the same time help enterprises address their security and budgetary concerns. Wrike applied to the Productivity Applications category, because Wrike’s
"Failing Forward": How to Turn Mistakes Into Success
Fail fast and fail often. If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough. Entrepreneurs hear this ALL the time. It sounds like good advice, and we're all familiar with the stories of famous innovators overcoming setbacks to achieve greatness. Everyone from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs has an inspirational anecdote where failure was an essential
Collaboration to Configuration: How Connecting Workflows Impacts the Customer Experience
Behind every successful cross-functional relationship is a set of tools to advance communication and productivity. Here are 3 workflows every company should connect to optimize the customer experience.
Top Tools for Maximizing Marketing Productivity & Efficiency in 2021 (NEW)
There are dozens of tools out there for every facet of marketing team productivity, but in this article, we’ll just look at the top tools that every member of your marketing team can use to boost their effectiveness. Here are the top 40 tools for maximizing the productivity of your marketing team.
Star Your Favorite Folders to Keep Them on Top
Like a lot of us, you probably have two or three folders in Wrike that you use most often. Accessing them might take several clicks, especially if you have a lot of folders in your account. Today, we're introducing a Starred Folders section where you can quickly access your most commonly used folders. With the new
And the winner is...
In my previous post I encouraged all my readers to leave comments in order to compete for a free Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Now it is time to name the winner. Thanks to everybody who participated in my little contest. I liked all the answers and it was really hard to make the final decision. If readers and
RACI Improved: Structuring Responsibilities with the Help of Project Management 2.0 Software
In one of my recent posts I wrote that using project management 2.0 software helps project manager guide his team’s work, delegate some of his initial duties and allocate roles and responsibilities so that they are clear to everybody on the team. Project management 2.0 tools also let one apply some traditional methodologies of structuring
5 Powerful Ways for a Project Manager<br> To Leverage Filters in Wrike
Running several projects, you need to track all the deadlines, adjust the schedule, report the progress to your superiors… What a headache! Fortunately, with Wrike project management software it takes just a couple of minutes to get the exact project perspective you need. Today, we want to share some special hints on filtering your tasks in
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Wrike's founder speaks at PMI Silicon Valley Tools and Techniques Forum
Wrike was founded thanks to the Andrew Filev's experience in running projects and businesses in today’s dynamic environment and his frustration with traditional project management tools. You are welcome to visit PMI Silicon Valley Tools and Techniques Forum in June hosted by PMI Silicon Valley Tools and Techniques Forum and find out how to manage
Silicon Valley vs. Beijing: Who’s More Productive? (Work Management Roundup)
Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup where we collect and curate the week’s best reads in work and management. This week, we talk a lot about productivity. We lead off with an article on Beijing's workaholic startups and continue with discussions on busy work vs. productive work, and why we need new ways to measure the productivity of our workers. Read on for more!
Top 5 Reasons for Project Failure and How to Avert Disaster
As a vendor of project management and collaboration software, we talk to a lot of project managers. And we've heard all too often that despite every obvious intention for a project to be successful, the reality is that sometimes things fall apart. My belief is that the more you are prepared to fail, the better suited