The Agile Origins of Project Management 2.0
In my previous post that was also cross posted on CloudAve, I brought up the topic of enterprise agility. My conclusion was: to be agile and adapt quickly to the ever-changing business environment, you need to be able to blend top-down control with bottom-up agility in a "Ying and Yang" style. I also mentioned the
7 Tips for Better Meetings (Infographic)
Let's be honest: meetings su-- ahem, aren't fun. We've all been there: trapped around a conference table, air conditioning set to "arctic blast," listening to a manager's endless monologue about customer acquisition strategies or abstract quarterly goals. At best, you might get a free pastry. At worst, it's an utter waste of your time. Here's the good news:
Introducing Wrike's Project Templates for Salesforce
Keeping track of all the work being done for your customers can be a challenge when many of your teams (like Legal, Marketing, and Professional Services) don’t work in Salesforce. When this happens, work gets dropped and customers get upset. Today, we're excited to announce Wrike’s new Salesforce Project Templates to make collaboration between sales
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Speed Up Task Collaboration on Your Android
One of the top request of our Android users was making editing tasks easier on their mobile. In the latest release, we've improved task editing with the two powerful features: Live Editor and Offline mode. Now you can quickly update task description, add images, immediately track changes, and make notes even when you don't have
Introducing the New Wrike Community & Help Center
The Wrike Help Center has a fresh new look — and a brand new user forum! Looking for someplace to talk Folder structure, creating real-time Reports, new user training, and more? Join the new Wrike Community and connect with other Wrike users. You can: Ask questions. Post your question in the user forums to get
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Tips from 123 EDI on Improving Customer Satisfaction with Wrike's Help
How can you achieve customer service so fine that clients actually comment on it and spread the word about your company? Learn from the benchmark experiences of other companies, and benefit from the latest technologies to facilitate your work. , a leading provider of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), has been offering a variety of robust, cost-effective
3 Steps to Building Your Own Innovation Machine (Part 1)
Recently, I read an interesting book by Peter Sims, “Little Bets,” which brings up a really important question: can failure, in fact, take us further than success? The answer is: yes, if we know how to deal with it. While interviewing the executives at Amazon, General Motors and Google, as well as successful musicians, architects
The Cure for Project Failure (Infographic)
Are your projects thriving? Or are they suffering from swelling budgets, sluggish progress, and strained deadlines? If your hard work is constantly in danger of flatlining, know this: you’re certainly not alone. There’s an epidemic of failed projects afflicting businesses of all sizes, with organizations hemorrhaging hundreds of millions of dollars in lost funds. In the
The 4-Day Workweek: Exploring Alternatives for the Future of Work
The pandemic turned the working world upside down more than many workplace experts could have predicted. Millions of workers left their office desks to work from home offices — or the dinner table — which certainly wasn’t an anticipated outcome for the workplace in 2020 — or 2021, for that matter. So, if the workplace can
Work Faster with The New Auto @Mention from Email
Wrike's email integration already saves you time on checking project updates, creating and updating tasks. Today we've added one more handy improvement - the ability to reply to your colleagues' @mentions directly from your inbox. Now when you get a notification from someone @mentioning you, you can reply via email and the sender will be
Office 2.0 Big Expectations
I was invited to give a speech at the Project 2.0 panel of the Office 2.0 Conference, which will take place in San Francisco on September 5-7. The conference is established by Ismael Ghalimi, author of the popular IT|Redix blog. He together with a group of other bloggers managed to make the conference a significant
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Wrike gets inline editing
We made keyboard navigation much friendlier for you with this week’s release, to make your work easy and comfortable. Now you can make changes to the title, status, responsible party or the due date without opening the task. Click the right pane with the task list and use these keyboard shortcuts to increase your productivity: • UP/DOWN
New Wrike: Backlog
Do you see more overdue tasks appear on the dashboard every day, even though you and your team members are working really hard? These days we often have to deal with uncertainty, so it’s not always possible to specify fixed due dates for some tasks. Later, when you don’t meet the set deadlines for these
The site goes live
We had some hot debates about our beta program. We were seriously considering limiting access to the program and discussed various ways of implementing it, but the final show of hands pointed towards making the program public. The driving force behind this decision was the argument that Wrike's power is in its collaborative abilities.