Shout-Out for Astrid Users: Wrike is the New Home for Your Tasks

: Published by Nadia | Monday, 13 May, 2013
Should someone among your friends, family or colleagues use Astrid as their to-do app, you will want to let them know about our exciting update! Recently it was announced that Yahoo! is acquiring Astrid. However, Yahoo! has not revealed what their plans are for Astrid after its acquisition. We suggest that Astrid users ensure their productivity is safe and blooming no matter what :) In just a couple of clicks they can import their tasks from Astrid to Wrike and easily collaborate on them in our iPhone and Android apps. Read more...

New Daily Zoom on Timeline and Workload View for Super Accurate Planning

: Published by Vera | Monday, 29 April, 2013
A typical day often includes an ongoing chain of small activities rather than one huge task. The more tasks there are, the trickier it might be to keep them all straight, so you need to organize them in such a way so that nothing gets forgotten. Wrike’s Timeline and Workload views are great helpers for this issue. Today, we are happy to announce a great improvement to these tools: a super detailed zoom that lets you schedule small tasks with pinpoint accuracy. Read more...

: Published by Vera | Wednesday, 24 April, 2013
Many restaurants let you choose the mix of ingredients you want to get in your sandwich, so that the snack perfectly suits your taste. The same is true for project management software. The more freedom you have to combine it with other business apps you use, the better it suits your workflow.

One of our clients, Distribion, Inc., sets a successful example of how to integrate Wrike with other tools your team is already using, such as accounting and ticket management systems, with the help of API. Read more...

: Published by Anne | Tuesday, 23 April, 2013
With selective data sharing in Wrike, it has always been a breeze to invite clients, contractors, partners and freelancers to collaborate on particular shared projects. With thousands of teams using Wrike today, it often happens that many of your external collaborators would like to, or already manage their own projects in Wrike. Thus, the ability to be a member of several Wrike accounts has been one of the most popular requests we receive from our customers. Previously, we took care of this on an individual basis, but the popularity of it inspired us to create a new feature that would make cross-account collaboration more convenient, flexible and secure for all parties. Read more...

: Published by Anne | Wednesday, 17 April, 2013
Key Lime Interactive runs studies in usability and user experience optimization. Among the products they evaluate are eReaders and video games, mobile wallet solutions and entertainment apps.

The team usually runs multiple concurrent research projects while having many more in the pipeline. For their studies, they use several online research tools with licenses for a limited number of users. That’s why managing the availability of these tools has always been a critical issue. And since their business has recently grown and the project work has become more intense, they also faced higher risk of having schedules of tools usage overlap. Fortunately, apart from solving Key Lime’s project management challenges, Wrike helped them to take most of the available licenses without increasing costs. Read more...

: Published by Anne | Monday, 08 April, 2013
According to a recent study on work habits, about one-third of the workers surveyed say they rely on a time management method in their daily work. “Getting things done,” better known as GTD, is probably the most popular. While following GTD principles with individual tasks is doable, integrating a personal system with team-managed projects can be a challenge. Wrike solves this problem by providing a single workspace for groups to collaborate on shared tasks, as well as organize and process them individually in the GTD style. Wrike user Ray Martin shares his experience and tips: Read more...

: Published by Nadia | Thursday, 04 April, 2013
Providing a detailed task description is crucial if you want to get the task done right. Real-time collaborative editing of text and tables lets your team work simultaneously, quickly and accurately. But what if some important changes were made to the task description while you were offline? Wrike’s new change-tracking feature leaves no room for guessing games. At any time, you can see exactly what was added, edited or removed by each of the contributors, be that a single word, a table cell, or even a whole paragraph and a massive table fragment. Read more...

: Published by Anne | Friday, 15 March, 2013
Northcutt’s team of inbound marketing experts takes care of several simultaneous projects for each of its multiple clients. No wonder they need to collect and analyze large amounts of data on a daily basis. But fortunately, Wrike's API made this process much easier for them! Read more...

: Published by Andrew Filev | Tuesday, 05 March, 2013
When you run a project, there are a lot of components that need to be managed together: information, people, time, as well as specific challenges and threats. Speaking of threats – even if you’re a seasoned professional with extensive experience, you’re never immune to the smaller or bigger dangers of project failure. If you browse blogs and online communities, as well as glance at the agenda of offline events, you’ll see what a stirring discussion it brings up in the PM space. It’s usually analyzed from the “why” side – i.e., what are the reasons for project failure? But there is another equally important question that seems to be rarely discussed: How do we learn from it?
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: Published by Irene | Friday, 01 March, 2013
Even if you heavily rely on the principles of self-organizing teams while managing your projects, you still need a handy way to track project progress and report on results.

For all project managers, team leaders and Wrike fans, we’ve prepared an easy-to-digest manual with screenshots that gives you a quick overview of Wrike’s key reporting capabilities. You’ll learn how to create customized reports and save them on the dashboard for further use.
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