7 Techniques for More Effective Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a useful method to bring together a wide range of viewpoints. Additionally, it's a quick way to generate a large quantity of ideas. Here are 7 easy ways to brainstorm effectively, encourage collaboration, and eliminate judgement.
6 Reasons Home Alone's Kevin McAllister is a Project Management Genius
It’s the time of the year: everyone’s humming carols, organizing cookie swaps, and re-watching their favorite classic Christmas movies. During a screening of Home Alone here at Wrike HQ, we couldn’t help but notice the young protagonist's stellar project management skills, and started taking notes.
Why You Need to Record Your Project Management Lessons Learned: Tips & Templates
You've checked off the last few tasks on your to-do list, submitted the final deliverable, and shaken hands with a group of happy stakeholders. Time to congratulate your project team on a job well done and pop the champagne! Wait, what do you mean the project's not finished? Record lessons learned?? Groan. It can be tough
12 Ways to Use Wrike You Never Considered
Wrike is known for being one of the most flexible enterprise project management systems around — sometimes more flexible than we ourselves realize. Our customers are pretty creative with how they use Wrike, so we asked them to share their best tips and tricks. Check out the unique ways Wrikers are taking advantage of our tool, and you
3 Foolproof Steps to Ace Your Wrike Implementation
Back in February, Wrike's customer success team launched a "churn analysis" campaign. For two months, we collected feedback from customers who had decided to stop using Wrike and tried to identify their reasons for leaving. While there were many different reasons why people left Wrike, such as a lack of financial resources and specific missing features, "lack
Work Smarter, Not Harder: 25 Must-Know Productivity Tips (eBook)
Do you feel your productivity wane as the week goes on? Or do you start a number of tasks and struggle to finish them, jumping from one to another all day? The COVID-19 pandemic forced most knowledge workers to work from home, and many have found the benefits of remote working worthy of continuing even as
Become Wrike Certified With Our New Customer Certification Program
Whether you're a long-time user or taking your first steps towards Wrike mastery, let your team and organization know you're the expert when it comes to all things Wrike with our new Wrike Customer Certification program and badges.
How to Prioritize Wrike Tasks With an Eisenhower Decision Matrix
If you're the typical worker, you'll start with the most immediate fire being shoved in your face the minute you get to your desk. But that isn't ideal. There's a smarter way to determine priority, and it involves a tool invented more than 50 years ago by the 34th president of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Cross-Tagging in Wrike Opens Up Your Team’s Project Visibility (Infographic)
What does the Wrike CWM platform offer that the others don't? Cross-tagging. Cross-tagging in Wrike is a one-of-a-kind feature that gives you, your teams, and your organization better visibility and end-to-end transparency into every activity, all the way down to the tasks level. This is valuable because, without it, you'd have duplicate tasks, folders —
Cross-Tagging in Wrike: Why This Collaboration Software Feature is Essential to Team Success
Introducing Inside Wrike, a new blog series that introduces you to some of the industry’s thought leaders and foremost experts on topics ranging from collaborative work and project management to new Wrike use cases. Each post is dedicated to bringing you the latest insights and deep dives into the Wrike platform designed to get you
Customer's Best Practice: Consider Task Duration As the No. 1 Factor in Planning
24 hours a day is always not enough to do everything you want and spend the time with the ones you love. Today, Susan Serra, who runs a family design business, shares a great tip on efficient time planning, so that not even 5 minutes will be wasted! Customer’s background Susan Serra runs three brands and a
Managing Tasks, Projects, Issues, and Documents... How About Books?
It’s always great to know how many different and interesting use cases of Wrike implementation are there in your organizations. But could you imagine that Wrike might serve not only as your irreplaceable assistant in task and project management, but also as a librarian? With a sizeable collection of books in the office, it may be
How Wrike's Live Editor Makes Collaborating Easier
The core of Wrike's purpose is to help teams work better together. Part of that means simplifying the collaboration process for teams when multiple people need to contribute written content for a project. In the past, teams had to pass documents around through email. Person A writes their version; then Person B adds their ideas; finally
