3 Step Process to Building a Project Work Plan Template in Wrike
A project work plan allows you to outline the requirements of a project, project planning steps, goals, and team members involved in the project. This provides visibility to everyone involved, keeps project deliverables organized in one place, and helps you stay on track to reach your objectives.
How to Boost Productivity Using Parkinson's Law
In 1955, Cyril Parkinson created Parkinson's law. The concept centers around the idea that work is like gas; it expands to fill whatever container it is placed in. For project management, this means that if you give a task five hours, it will take five hours to complete. But if you give that same task
Wrike as online bugtracking software: Part I. How to create a new task via e-mail and attach a screenshot to it
The power of Wrike lies in its agility. You can manage your next hiking trips with your friends there. But we can’t do that at the moment, all we have had in our minds is developing the best collaborative planning tool in the world. We are content with using Wrike as a tool to make
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4 Ways to Measure the ROI of Work Management Tools
Whether you’re trying to decide what solution is worth the investment, prove the investment to key stakeholders, or show the ROI for a solution you already have, here are the 4 key ways you can measure the ROI of your collaborative work management tool.
10 Deadly Signs Your Culture is Toxic
But just as you can build a healthy company culture by injecting meaning and mission into your daily grind, you could also ignore it totally, decide not to fight for it ... and watch how the bullies and less desirable elements take over and turn the workplace into a toxic arena of one-upmanship and verbal takedowns. Here are 10 warning signs to watch out for. Nip it in the bud — if you care about your company.
Wrike Turns a Marketing Firm into a Project Management Rock Star
Today, for numerous companies, distributed teams have become a way of hiring the best people, regardless of their location. However, geographically distributed teams face additional challenges when establishing effective collaboration and overcoming some of the frictions of time and geography. Read the whole story of how 3rd Wave Research turned into project management rock stars with
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How to Customize Wrike in 1-2-3!
Wrike, in its turn, is flexible by its nature and, therefore, can be easily modified to become truly yours. We invite you to take a walk with us through this short customization guide and quickly shape Wrike to both your personal and professional needs. 1. Adjust Wrike to your tastes Come out of the dark In Wrike, the avatar
Ditch the Tomato Timer: 4 New Productivity Techniques to Try
You know all about Pomodoro, GTD, and 80/20 — and you're either a huge fan, or they've left you cold. Here are a few new productivity and task management techniques to help you be super productive without burning out. 1. Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't Break the Chain" Yep, that Jerry Seinfeld. Turns out, he's been sitting on a
The Dashboard Helps You Meet Deadlines
Now you will have quick access to the tasks that are due shortly. They are displayed on the dashboard, so you can begin your work at once. The dashboard will also help with your daily review of your tasks. It lets you immediately mark them completed or reschedule them. Check the box,
9 Phrases to Avoid If You Want to Sound Competent (Work Management Roundup)
It's Friday — time for the weekly Work Management Roundup. This week we tackle what phrases to use to sound more competent, note-taking with pen and paper, customizing stock photos, and using kindness as a strategy. Plus more articles on tools, productivity hacks and work.
Wrike's Voice on PMHut
This time, Andrew was invited to write for The Project Management Hut. PMHut is a remarkable online collection of articles, covering the whole process of managing a project, from initiation to closure, including all the necessary templates. The posts are written by elite project managers. The site is an excellent resource for any project manager
Meetup with Wrike in Palo Alto!
We love engaging with you, our customers, via email, live chats, our voting forum, feedback forms, regular phone and Skype calls. But what about real-life, face-to-face meetings? Inspired by this idea, we invite all of you, Wrike’s customers, friends and fans, to meet us for some drinks, food, and good discussion about Wrike. Inspired by this idea,
Subtasks Are Here!
Have you heard of small wins? Splitting a large project into bite-sized chunks makes the work more manageable and increases team productivity. And subtasks = small wins. You've been patiently waiting, and now we're very excited to announce that the much-anticipated, frequently-requested subtasks are now in your workspace! Split your complex tasks and multi-step goals into
Project Management 2.0 Blog Is in the Top 100 List
Jurgen Appelo writes an interesting blog on software engineering. He recently did a great job of analyzing and ranking blogs for development managers. The result of his efforts is the impressive list of 100 most popular blogs in this area. I think it must have been hard to search those for blogs and to evaluate each
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3 Strategies for Bringing a Distributed Team Member On Board
On our first day at a new job, we observe everything that is happening in the office and start to understand what is okay and what it is not allowed. We start building a mental map of what things are like in the office so that we can adapt faster. We notice if the receptionist
Workflow Management vs. Project Management: Different but Both Critical
Workflow and project are terms often used interchangeably, but they each have unique purposes. Knowing them will help you choose the most efficient system and adopt the right tools. Read more about workflow management, project management, and everything in between to help your team succeed.
