It All Adds Up: How Software Sprawl Is Cutting Into Your Agency's Profits
Creative agencies use so many tools today to make life easier, but does your team have too many? It’s called software sprawl and costing you more than you think. Read more to see how software sprawl is cutting into your business’ profits and how to solve it.
Focus on What's Most Important: Try the New Full-Screen View Of Tasks
According to different productivity methodologies and techniques, staying focused on one action item at a time is key to efficient task management. With this in mind, we added the ability to open a task in full screen mode, so it’s much easier for you to concentrate on a particular task.According to different productivity methodologies and
Projects: A New Way to Organize!
We built Wrike to be extremely flexible so it fits the way you organize, manage, and report on work without forcing you to change the way you work. For years, the basic building blocks of Wrike have been Folders, Tasks, and Subtasks. Now we’ve added Projects, making it easier to track larger initiatives in Wrike. Manage Your Largest Goals Use Projects to manage a
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How to Create the Ultimate Wellness Program for Your Company
We spend a significant part of our lives at work, which means our jobs play a significant role in our overall health and wellness journeys. And it’s not surprising that sitting at our desks and staring at computer screens all day isn’t necessarily the best for our health. That’s why many organizations – even big players
3 Techniques for Giving Feedback to Your Manager That Actually Work (Plus Sample 1:1 Agenda)
As an employee, giving feedback to your manager can be daunting. In this article, we offer three tips for how to give upward feedback that will be positive and productive, as well as a free sample 1:1 agenda to improve the quality of your feedback sessions.
Brand-new iPhone and Android Apps: Be Mobile and Productive!
Warm up your fingers to tap and swipe as we have great news for you: Wrike’s fantastic mobile apps are ready-to-use! Now, whether you have just a couple of spare minutes or half an hour, you can invest the time into your work productivity: Check task updates, take part in the discussions, adjust schedules, instantly
Agile Certification Options for Software Developers
Why pursue Agile certification? Perhaps your employer is requesting it, or you'd like to pump up your resume. Maybe you just want to learn more, or you're getting ready to join an Agile development team. Whatever the case may be, it's important to note that you don't necessarily need a certification to thrive on an Agile
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Creative Leaders: Balance Business Strategy and the Latest Technologies
An interview with Alex Calicchia, Founder & President of Hive Partners.(This is part 1 of a series on managing and creating world-class internal creative teams.) With the increasing speed and digitalization of business, creative teams are under a lot of pressure to deliver projects - faster, better and in higher volumes. With this interview series, we
Team Collaboration Tools: Why Wrike’s Features Are Essential for Team Success
Just because more teams are dispersed now than pre-pandemic doesn’t mean work is slowing down. If anything, the pace of work for many teams remains the same or even sped up. More work can translate to more available resources and it’s not always in-house. Freelancers and agencies remain valued team members and can’t be forgotten
Why Project Management 2.0 Is a Different Ball Game
that I attended in October, I met many project management practitioners. Some of them asked me about my views on Project Management 2.0. One of the questions was “How is Project Management 2.0 different from what many organizations have today?” I decided to summarize my answers and came up with a short list of key factors
How to customize statuses in Wrike
By default, only active tasks are visible in Wrike to avoid information overload. At any moment you can extend your task list with completed, deferred and even cancelled tasks. To do so, you simply filter tasks by their status: Bug tracking, life cycle management, approval processes often require access to tasks with customized statuses. In this
Remote Collaboration: 5 Sentences to Ruin a Remote Worker's Day
Setting aside the joys of working from home and not having to commute, workers collaborating remotely have to deal with a lot of extra pain. The added pressure it places on their shoulders comes from the difficulty of creating immediate, visible value from afar. They struggle to be more "present" to their colleagues via the
The Guide to MarTech Today (Infographic)
What is MarTech? What is there to know about the industry? And why should you care? MarTech (short for marketing technology) refers to marketing initiatives that use new technologies to power their campaigns and efforts. It is a fast-growing industry, expected to hit a worldwide spend of $22.6 BILLION in 2015, with upward growth projected over
How to Manage and Support Colleagues Through Bereavement at Work
It’s the situation that nobody ever wants to be in, but take a minute and imagine yourself there: You’ve just lost a loved one. You’re suddenly burdened with shock and grief. You’re overwhelmed by the logistics of honoring final wishes, filling out paperwork, and planning arrangements. In between it all, you manage to find a minute
Wrike Named a Leader Among the FrontRunners for Project Management Report for Q3
Software Advice recently published results of the FrontRunners for Project Management report — a study that analyzes leading project management software providers based on the capability and value that small business customers derive from them. In the report, Wrike was identified as one of the seven providers in the "Leaders" quadrant.
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3 Ways to Better Manage Freelance Creatives
If you're a creative team working with freelancers, then according to the 2014 In-House Creative Industry Report, you're in the 90% of all creative teams that will hire remote freelancers this year to meet peak demand. But as with any remote work situation, there are challenges to making it work. While remote work may be ideal for
Wrike users recommend the leader in on-demand project management
The positive experience that our users receive inspires them to spread the word about Wrike. It’s great. We very much appreciate the initiative of our customers who help us let other people know about simple ways to collaborate on projects and get them done. Some of our customers recommend Wrike in project management communities, and
"Open" Means "More Competitive"
Enterprise 2.0 technologies make companies stronger. This is what we read in almost every analytical blog and in many business publications. More and more companies are announcing the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 technologies to their business. One of the recent examples is IBM’s Lotus Connections. It’s an enterprise-wide IT controlled social networking package, which was