Share Task Priorities with Your Team in Real Time

Published by Dasha   |  Thursday, 30 June, 2011

New tasks appear every day. Some of them have urgent deadlines. So every day, you have to adjust the priorities for each project and communicate them to the team. Tons of operations, don't you think? With Wrike, it takes you just a couple of mouse moves to set, adjust and communicate project priorities.

  1. Set and adjust priorities. It's easier than you can imagine. Simply sort the tasks by priority and drag the most important tasks up the list with your mouse. Select "Show descendant" if you want to prioritize tasks in subfolders as well. Whenever you need to prioritize tasks across all your projects, go to "My Folders," select "Show descendant" and drag-and-drop tasks.



















    If you have dozens of tasks, you might want to prioritize them for each person separately (filter the task list by responsible person first).
     

  2. Share and communicate priorities. The best thing about Wrike's priority system is that, if a project folder is shared with the team, the team already knows the up-to-date priorities. How? A person opens a project folder, chooses sorting by priority and voila. He or she sees tasks of the highest priority at the top of the list, just like you do. Every team member instantly sees the automatically updated project priorities with no extra effort from your side. This helps everyone clearly see what they should be focusing on first and promptly react to the changes in the volatile business environment.


Keeping your plan up-to-date and communicating priorities to the entire team is a challenge, but with Wrike, it is a piece of cake. We'd love to know what you think. Have you already used Wrike's prioritization function? Did you learn anything new from this post?

Learn How to Get the Most out of Wrike's Backlog Feature

Published by Dasha   |  Tuesday, 28 June, 2011
We regularly release tutorial videos to help you learn how to use Wrike. Recently, we released a new video that teaches you how you can easily adapt your plans in Wrike to the fast-changing business environment!

The new video describes how to make the best use of Wrike’s Backlog feature. It tells you how tasks in your backlog are different from usual ones; and how to create, manage and prioritize tasks. In this tutorial, you will see examples of how useful the backlog can be for scheduling and assigning tasks to your peers. You can use Wrike’s Backlog feature in many ways – to manage agile development teams, store important ideas, prioritize product requirements, or even create your personal backlog.

Watch this new tutorial and see how to save time and make scheduling and prioritizing even easier!



Watch the other tutorials
at the top of Wrike’s help page.

Beta Release of Wrike's Tablet Version Ready to Empower Android and iPad Users

Published by Dasha   |  Monday, 20 June, 2011
We know how important it is for you to be able to manage your tasks from anywhere: your computer, phone and… tablet. The tablet version of Wrike was on the wish list for many of you, and today our team presents you Wrike’s Web version for mobile browsers on iOS or Android. So now you can take full advantage of Wrike from your favorite tablet device. The new version is released in beta, and we welcome you to try it.

Android users probably have dreamed about this version most of all, but we’re sure it will please iPad aficionados, as well. In Wrike’s new tablet version, you get almost everything that helps your project collaboration in Wrike’s Web version. You can create and schedule tasks and share comments from anywhere with Internet access as easily as you do it in Wrike’s Web app. We hope that the tablet version will bring even more comfort to your project collaboration.



We look forward to receiving your feedback on the beta version for mobile browsers. Please contact us at support@team.wrike.com and tell us what you like about using the new version on your tablet and what you would like to be improved.

Your Top Five Contacts: Assign a Task with a Mouse Click

Published by Dasha   |  Monday, 23 May, 2011
Have you ever noticed that, regardless of your team’s size, you usually actively work on tasks with the same few colleagues? Based on this observation, we developed a new practical feature that makes task management even more convenient.

Now, when you want to assign a task or share an item, the first five names in the drop-down menu will be your “top” colleagues from your closest working circle, while the rest of the names appear in the habitual alphabetical order. Thanks to this update, you can assign and share tasks way quicker, as it requires significantly fewer keystrokes. In fact, you may skip typing anything at all if the assignee’s name is among these five favorite contacts.

Wrike constantly analyzes your collaboration network and regularly updates these five “favorite contacts.” So if the circle of your closest work contacts changes, it will be quickly reflected in Wrike.  

We hope you find this upgrade useful in your day-to-day work. We will be glad to hear your comments on this feature and answer any questions.

Outlook 2010 64Bit Sync: Connect Your Tasks into One Big Picture

Published by Dasha   |  Thursday, 05 May, 2011
Wrike’s frictionless integration with other ubiquitous tools you use in your work is one of the core things that make it so friendly and easy to use. According to the feedback that we receive from you, Outlook sync is a popular feature that many of you enjoy using. This week, we’ve enhanced it with a very important update – we’ve released a new version of the add-in for those of you who use the 64bit version of Outlook 2010.

To download this add-in, simply click on the “Sync” link in your Wrike workspace and download the Outlook add-in from that page. After you’ve gone through the download and installation process, you’ll need to fill in your login information and adjust the sync settings between Outlook and Wrike: frequency, direction, etc. If you have any doubts, these help pages will guide you through the process step by step.   

Getting your tasks automatically synced between Outlook and Wrike will connect your work into one big picture. Thus, you’ll have a clear overview of your most important tasks in both apps at any time, which will make you more efficient in getting things done.



Do you have any questions or suggestions about Wrike’s Outlook sync? Don’t hesitate to drop us a note in the comments or email our Customer Care Team anytime at support@team.wrike.com.

Wrike & Outlook 2010: Get All Tasks Completed!

Published by Dasha   |  Tuesday, 28 December, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, we released Wrike’s API, which allows you to synchronize data between Wrike and other business applications. A successful example of implementing the functionality of the API is Wrike’s add-in for synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook. Those of you who have already started using this feature can fully enjoy how handy and productive it is to have all tasks brought together in one spot. We’re constantly working on improving Wrike’s features, and today we have some good news about the Outlook add-in. Now it fully supports synchronization with Outlook 2010 to help you make task management even more efficient! To sync your tasks in Wrike with the action items in Outlook 2010, please get the new version of the add-in.

Absolute Workflow Transparency? Easy with Wrike.

Published by Daria   |  Monday, 29 March, 2010
Transparent workflows are a key to successful project completion and efficiency of any organization. However, getting an insight into what each team member is occupied with at any given moment of time may be challenging for almost every manager, to say nothing of a person in charge of multiple international projects, involving hundreds of thousands of volunteers from all over the world. Yet, Ryan Wood, COO at Absolute.org, a charitable non-profit organization, helping people in need in different corners of the globe, found an elegant solution to this common problem.  Absolute.org’s team adopted Wrike as a project and workflow management system and the project management software changed the way people were collaborating on tasks.  “Each team member can see what is happening on the projects that he or she is involved in. All the project schedules are up-to-date, as the changes made by other team members are seen in real time,” says Ryan. Read the rest of the story and find out why Absolute.org chose Wrike over other project management tools.

Wrike Helps Yahoo! Users Get Things Done Collaboratively

Published by Daria   |  Wednesday, 29 July, 2009
We’re excited to announce the release of Wrike Simple Projects, the first free, real-time project collaboration tool built on Yahoo!’s Open Apps platform, on July 24.

Wrike Simple Projects will become part of Yahoo! users’ everyday experience and the first project collaboration tool available from the customizable My Yahoo! web page. Anyone who has a Yahoo! account will be able to easily create and assign tasks, organize tasks in projects and invite people to work on projects together. Still the most exciting thing about Wrike Simple Projects is that it is the first My Yahoo! app that lets users keep track of changes made in projects by their friends. Thanks to the ability to see who created, edited, reassigned and completed tasks in real time, they can always stay in the loop.

Saving time and making people all over the world more productive while collaborating on projects is a part of Wrike’s mission. We developed the free Wrike Simple Projects specifically for Yahoo! to help millions of people become more efficient in working together on everyday projects like moving, planning a wedding or trip, studying, etc.

It’s worth mentioning that Wrike Simple Projects will not sync with Wrike’s original version and will not offer Wrike’s unique and patent-pending features, such as the Intelligent Email Engine, Dynamic Timeline, or our Flexible Structures. People who are interested in these and other substantial collaboration and project management features will be invited to join our customer community and sign up for Wrike at www.wrike.com.

Improvements in the Daily To-do Emails

Published by Valerie   |  Friday, 06 March, 2009
We received a lot of customer feedback about desired changes in everyday to-do e-mails, and today we are glad to present the improvements to you.

To help you focus on the most important tasks for you, now tasks that are overdue by more than 5 days are not shown in your daily to-do emails (1).

If a task was not completed or rescheduled while it was overdue for 1-5 days, it is considered non-important to you right now. However, each to-do email contains a reminder about your tasks that are overdue by more than 5 days (2), and you can reschedule them at any time (3).

As always, the to-do e-mail also contains your tasks that are planned for today (4) and overdue tasks assigned by you to other people.




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.


You simply click on “Request status update” and a dialog window appears, so you can add custom text to the default message.



Click “Send,” and the recipient of the message will report to you about the task soon.

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