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Unveiling the Latest Project Management Trends at ProjectSmart.co.uk.

Published by Daria | Monday, 06 October, 2008

Two articles by Andrew Filev, the founder and CEO of Wrike, Inc., were published on the reputable project management resource site ProjectSmart.co.uk. The focus of the site is on exploring the recent trends and developments in project management. ProjectSmart.co.uk. features articles, whitepapers, templates, updates on events for project managers and other useful information.

In his articles, Andrew discussed trends like the role of collective intelligence in contemporary project management and the new emerging approach to managing projects, known as Project Management 2.0.

Category: Miscellaneous, Project Management
Tags: Project Management 2.0, articles

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Simplified Way to Manage Folders

Published by Valerie | Thursday, 02 October, 2008

Today, we are glad to tell you about the simplified the way to create, rename and delete folders in your Wrike workspace. All these actions can be made easily with the help of a right-click in the left pane of the workspace. Let me describe it in detail.

1) To create a folder, right-click on the folder in which you want to create a new folder and choose the “Add folder” option. Enter the folder name and hit the “Enter” key. That is easy.

2) To rename a folder, right-click on the folder and choose the “Rename folder” option. Edit the folder name and click off the field.

3) To remove a folder, right-click on the folder and choose the “Delete folder” option.

If you want to share a folder, attach a file or create a folder description, you can do it by clicking on the "Edit folder" link in the right pane of the workspace and editing the folder properties.

The next step planned to improve the convenience of working with folders in Wrike is drag-and-drop for folders. We are currently working on a feature that will allow you to easily move folders within the hierarchy.

Category: New Features
Tags: inline editing for folders

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Get a 30-day Free Trial of Wrike without a Credit Card

Published by Valerie | Thursday, 02 October, 2008

We decided to make it easier for new users to sign up for Wrike. Now you can try the product without entering your credit card information! You fill in several simple fields, confirm registration via e-mail and get a full-featured Wrike account. It takes only seconds to sign up for a 30-day free trial. During the trial, you can easily switch between versions (Enterprise, Premium, or Professional) and invite as many users as you need. You can share your project plans with those users, collaborate on plans together and much more.

Overall, the subscription to Wrike is risk-free: no credit card required during a 30-day trial, no cancellation fees, and you can upgrade at any time.

Category: Announcements, Highlighted Posts, FAQ

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VOCO Creative is Overcoming Challenges of Organizing a 100% Virtual Office

Published by Daria | Monday, 29 September, 2008

What are the advantages of a 100% virtual office? First, it’s inexpensive. You don’t have to pay for rent. Second, it gives people from different locations an opportunity to work together easily. Third, you can access your business data 24/7 from any computer.

Yet, to be truly productive, a virtual office has to be well-organized. This can be hard to achieve when you get heaps of e-mails every day, which ruin your productivity. This is the kind of problem many small and midsize companies that are trying to run 100% virtual offices face nowadays. One of these companies was an Internet marketing firm, VOCO Creative. Its employees were struggling through their inboxes without having a sense of priorities or action items. This influenced the team’s productivity a great deal. However, VOCO Creative managed to find a solution with Wrike.

Read the story about VOCO Creative’s virtual office and find out how they keep it efficient.

Category: Productivity, Highlighted Posts, Miscellaneous
Tags: case studies

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Wrike Turns a Marketing Firm into a Project Management Rock Star

Published by Daria | Friday, 19 September, 2008

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.

For the marketing and IT consulting firm 3rd Wave Research, the need for efficient, real-time collaboration was one of the main reasons for using Wrike. They needed a system that would allow their distributed team members to share ideas, collect project information and plan their work in one common workspace, as well as allow their clients to get insight into where the project stands. "Without such a system, project efficiency losses would compromise our ability to deliver complex marketing solutions to our clients," says Aaron Anderson, account strategy manager at 3rd Wave Research. Wrike turned out to be the solution that fit 3rd Wave Research’s distributed team in every way.

Read the whole story of how 3rd Wave Research turned into project management rock stars with Wrike.

Category: Highlighted Posts, Project Management, Collaboration
Tags: case studies

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Wrike's Voice on PMHut

Published by Daria | Thursday, 18 September, 2008

Wrike's founder, Andrew Filev, is an expert in project management with about 8 years of experience in leading global software development teams. At the same time, Andrew is keen on innovating the project management sphere. That's why many authoritative project management institutions and resource centers are willing to find out his opinion on hot project management topics.

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 who wants to "get the project done." This week, PMHut featured Andrew's article on the characteristics of an ideal project management tool. Will there be such a tool? And if yes, what would it look like? Find out by reading Andrew Filev's article at PMHut.com

Category: Miscellaneous, Project Management
Tags: Project Management 2.0, articles

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Wrike and Chrome - Excellent Combination for Productivity

Published by Daria | Thursday, 11 September, 2008

Google Chrome has already won the hearts of thousands of early adopters. Chrome has a number of innovative features that Google says were developed to solve several serious problems related to browsing the Web. If you are one of the Web-workers who have already chosen Chrome as a primary browser, do not deprive yourself the pleasure of adding your favorite project management software to your bookmarks. Wrike works perfectly in Chrome, just as it does in other highly popular web-browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 2 and 3, and Safari 3.

Category: Tips and Tricks, Miscellaneous
Tags: Chrome, browser

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Update a Task without Logging in To Your Wrike Workspace

Published by Valerie | Wednesday, 03 September, 2008

We continuously add new capabilities to Wrike’s Intelligent E-mail Engine. Today, we introduced the processing of replies to Wrike’s e-mail notifications. As you probably know, Wrike notifies you about changes made to your tasks by your colleagues. You can now reply to those notifications, and your answer will be added to the task description!

Create and send a reply message:

The task description is updated:

The author of the changes and other team members, who are subscribed to immediate notifications, will receive a message about the updates. This increases usability, helps to improve your productivity and brings more information from e-mails into the shared workspace, where it’s visible, shareable and editable.

Patent-pending Intelligent E-mail Engine is one of the strongest features of Wrike. It helps you save a lot of time by letting you manage tasks without logging in to the workspace. You can create tasks via e-mail, update tasks via e-mail and receive notifications about the changes. You can use it on the go or when you are offline. You can plug in to Wrike users who don’t want to leave their familiar environment (e-mail). With Wrike, you can combine the benefits of traditional e-mail with the benefits of collaboration on the Web.

Category: Email Integration, Productivity, New Features, Collaboration

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Create a Task on the Timeline

Published by Valerie | Wednesday, 03 September, 2008

Today, we offer a new, handy feature on Wrike’s Gantt chart. Now you can create a task on the timeline with one mouse gesture! Advanced Web technologies (AJAX) allowed us to implement this feature and improve your experience with Wrike. Adding tasks to the timeline became as easy as creating dependencies and rescheduling plans.

How it works
Switch to the “Timeline” tab. Choose the day when your task is planned to start, click on any empty line in the timeline, hold the mouse button and pull your mouse to the right. Once the task bar reaches the day when the task is planned to be finished, release the mouse button. A dialog window, where you can quickly enter the task name and assign the task, will appear. Enter the data and click on the “Create task” button.

Then, if you want to add a task description, attachments, priority and other properties, move the mouse pointer over the task bar and click on the “Edit task” link in the pop-up tooltip. You can also find the task in the list mode and edit it there.

See a video of this feature in action:

As you see, it takes just a couple of seconds to add a task to the plan. It takes no effort to notify a person about the new task assignment because Wrike does it for you. It is very convenient to monitor tasks in Wrike with the help of instant e-mail notifications and a daily digest of changes. Viva la productivity!

Category: Timeline (Gantt Chart), New Features

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Request Task Status Update from Your Wrike Workspace

Published by Valerie | Wednesday, 03 September, 2008

A tiny, yet useful, feature that helps you request task status updates automatically has been improved. Now the request can be created directly from your workspace. It is not necessary for you to have the default e-mail client, such as Outlook, Gmail etc., set on your computer.