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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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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: Miscellaneous, Highlighted Posts, Productivity
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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Project Management 2.0 Approach Presented at the UTD Project Management Symposium

Published by Daria | Wednesday, 20 August, 2008

Wrike’s founder, Andrew Filev, spoke at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Project Management Symposium. The two-day event took place on August 18-19 and was attended by approximately 200 executives, project management professionals, speakers and volunteers – representatives of the nation’s most dynamic organizations. Besides UTD the symposium organizers included PM Forum, an authoritative resource for project management information and knowledge, and Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading membership association for the project management profession.

Topics included project management issues facing organizations from diverse industries, governance problems, emerging trends in project management, questions around managing global teams, new product development and more.

Andrew gave a presentation about the innovative approach to project management that he advocates in his professional blog. According to Andrew the new approach, called Project Management 2.0 represents the evolution of traditional project management brought by the influence of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. You can find out more about Project Management 2.0 by reading Andrew’s article – “Project Management 2.0: The Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management” and by digging though his posts in the Project Management 2.0 blog.

Category: Announcements, Miscellaneous
Tags: events, project management 2.0

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Lively Conversation about Project Management Innovations

Published by Daria Petrova | Sunday, 17 August, 2008

Collective intelligence, emergent structures, Enterprise 2.0 … What are these things, and how can they help you manage your projects? Wrike's founder, Andrew Filev, explains the answers in his interview with the reputable blogger and veteran project manager Bas de Baar. The conversation covers the hottest project management topics and will make interesting and useful reading not only for project managers, but also to everybody who is involved in this sphere.

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

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Wrike is at the Office 2.0 Conference Once Again!

Published by Daria | Thursday, 14 August, 2008

Wrike’s CEO and founder Andrew Filev will be speaking at the Office 2.0 Conference for the second time. The conference will be held in San Francisco on September 3-5, 2008. The event gathers the most influential business and technology thinkers, who discuss the future of online productivity and collaboration, and share their ideas on the implementation of the Office 2.0 technologies in different business spheres.

The conference is always a refreshing experience for those who are open to new ways of making a business more productive. Here is the perfect place for you to learn about new, emerging organizing principles and how to create a strategy around them for your company.

There is a terrific set of speakers, including keynotes from David Allen, the creator of the popular Getting Things Done methodology; Dr. Sukh Grewal, manager of GE’s support central, collaboration environment; Oliver Marks, an expert in effective planning of Enterprise 2.0 strategy; Robert Scoble, the famous technology blogger, and many others. Wrike’s founder will be one of the participants in the Project Management 2.0 panel there. He will present his ideas on innovations brought by the Enterprise 2.0 technologies to project management. You can also read Andrew’s thoughts about Project Management 2.0 in his professional blog.

Category: Announcements, Miscellaneous
Tags: events, Project Management 2.0, Office 2.0

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Is It Possible to Combine Top-Down and Bottom-Up?

Published by Daria | Thursday, 10 July, 2008

What project management style do you apply to your projects? Is your project management all about command and control? Do you encourage your employees to proactively contribute to the project development?

Both approaches to project management may have their pitfalls. Perhaps the best way to manage your projects and business would be to use a hybrid method, which takes the best features from the two approaches. Learn more about leveraging the two approaches by reading Andrew Filev's article published in the influential Web 2.0 Journal.

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

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Cutter IT Journal Features Project Management 2.0 Article

Published by Daria | Friday, 06 June, 2008

Cutter IT Journal is one of the most authoritative media outlets on information technology and its development. The magazine is a part of the Cutter Consortium, a global IT advisory firm, helping organizations forge solutions to the business technology challenges they face. The Cutter Consortium is a completely independent entity that advances the thinking in the field by fostering debate and collaboration between thought leaders from different domains, countries and disciplines.

This time, the focus of the debate was the emerging, innovative approach to project management known as Project Management 2.0. The issue dedicated to this extremely interesting topic included articles by experienced project managers and influential researchers and analysts, including Andrew Filev, the CEO and founder of Wrike. Andrew's article Discovering the Benefits of Project Management 2.0 investigated in depth the roots and the effects of the new wave in the project management discipline. The full article is available on Cutter's site.

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

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MarineMotion.com Uses Wrike To Track Its Sales Leads And Control Customer Interactios

Published by Valerie | Monday, 28 April, 2008

Many companies try to manage their businesses by collecting data into spreadsheets and e-mailing them around. The seamless simplicity of this method can bring a huge mess very soon. Information becomes duplicated on the employees’ computers, and managers spend plenty of time getting status updates. The entire process becomes uncontrollable. As a result, organization may quickly become rigid and inefficient. This can seriously limit a company’s growth.

MarineMotion.com, a multi-media portal for boat and yacht brokers and dealers, acted wisely. Instead of using spreadsheets, it decided to implement a project management solution to increase sales. Sales manager Bob Hirsh told us about how MarineMotion.com uses Wrike to keep its customers satisfied. “We have customers in different parts of the world. Right now, we are working on 20 plus projects run by distributed teams. To increase sales and to keep our customers satisfied, we need to carefully sort lots of information. The introduction of Wrike was an enormous leap forward for us. Now I can better manage my distributed team, increase revenues, complete projects faster and build better communications with clients. As Wrike spans through all our departments, it is easy for me to get a complete picture and guide the business. Wrike is very agile and incredibly powerful project management software. Once you get the hang of it, it is simple and easy to use. Wrike saves us time and money, and helps to make the right decisions on time,” he says.

Read the full story “Efficient collaboration of a distributed sales team and clients helps speed up business growth.”

Category: Miscellaneous

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