New Wrike Beta: Backlog

Published by Dasha   |  Monday, 30 August, 2010
Do you see more overdue tasks appear on the dashboard every day, even though you and your team members are working really hard? These days we often have to deal with uncertainty, so it’s not always possible to specify fixed due dates for some tasks. Later, when you don’t meet the set deadlines for these tasks, you need to reschedule them again and again. Maybe there are some items that don’t have an actual deadline. For instance, they can be not actionable items, but valuable ideas to elaborate on sometime in the future. Whether they are tasks or ideas, in order to prevent them from slipping out of your sight, you need to record them in your plan. In a multitasking environment, it’s hard to keep them all in your head when it’s overloaded with information. Occasionally, you may miss something important in the workflow under such pressure.

To free your brain from the pressure of remembering too many things and to avoid stress, you need to get the ideas and tasks with no deadlines in safe storage as soon as they pop up. After you and your team cope with urgent matters, you can then turn to that list to develop your ideas or tackle some action item. Now Wrike allows you to keep these items neatly organized, so that none of them gets lost. If you use the new beta version, you may have noticed that now the tasks can not only be planned for exact dates or set as milestones, but also marked as “Backlogged.” Let us give you a view into this new, important feature of Wrike. 



Generally, a “backlog” is an accumulated list of work that still needs to be done. In terms of Getting Things Done (GTD), a personal productivity methodology that can be rolled out companywide with Wrike, a backlogged task can be defined as an item from the Someday/Maybe list. It means it’s a task that you will possibly pick up and complete sometime in the future. Backlogged tasks have no start date and due date. Backlogged tasks are not tied to the timeline and not visible on it. In the new version of Wrike, backlogged tasks are shown on a separate widget of the dashboard, so that you have a clear overview of them and don’t miss any item in the workflow. However, Wrike doesn’t include backlogged tasks in the daily to-do emails.

To see the tasks marked as backlogged in a certain folder, hit the “Backlog” button. Then you can easily rank your tasks by priority using drag-and-drop. As simple to implement as it sounds, this feature is a powerful tool that will help you to turn a long, messy list of unsorted tasks and ideas into a valid, agile plan. You can change the sorting order whenever your priorities change. 



With the new backlog feature, you take the load of too many things to remember off your brain. Wrike takes care of them and remembers them for you. You and your team members can store and prioritize the items in your workflow, gaining a clearer sense of what to focus on while moving toward your goals. In addition to a personal backlog, Wrike also allows you to accommodate backlogs for your projects, products, departments, etc.  Thus, this feature not only boosts your personal productivity, but turns into a very helpful tool for building your long-term strategies. For instance, you can record all your ideas about the future development of your product in the backlog. Keeping them in a neat, prioritized list that is not tied to inflexible or unfeasible deadlines, you can build a transparent roadmap of your product development and tackle the items one by one when the right time comes.
Try the new backlog feature and gain extra bonus points on your efficiency! 
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Keep Your Team Members on the Same Page with Wrike

Published by Dasha   |  Thursday, 26 August, 2010
Monitoring project statuses, sorting out responsibilities and deadlines, managing documents – how much time and effort do you need to invest in these routine tasks? Tipton Communications, an award-winning company providing PR services, estimates that project administration consumed up to 10% of their working hours. As more new members joined the team and the complexity of business grew, it was getting really challenging for the company’s managers to keep an eye on all the ongoing projects. Team members sometimes duplicated tasks because they didn’t know what exactly their colleagues were working on. Manual project-tracking methods used by Tipton didn’t prevent slips in the workflow. The company’s managers realized they needed a reliable project management application to prevent further problems that would be a potential threat to the corporate image.

Adoption of Wrike brought quick improvements both to managers and team members. “Wrike has been the most productive tool we have added to our arsenal since I started this business nearly five years ago,” says Dan Tipton, president and CEO at Tipton Communications. Read the whole interview with Dan to find out why Wrike turned out to be the best match for the company’s needs and how the workflow at Tipton has changed since it adopted this project management software
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Hot Summer Tweets

Published by Dasha   |  Monday, 12 July, 2010
Since summer started, it has been as hot on Twitter as it has been outside. In the past few weeks, our multinational customers tweeted about their impressions of activity streams, Google Wave integration and Wrike in general. Thank you guys for your attention and all these comments! Your feedback helps us move forward.

seesarahwrite @leslieajoy have you tried Wrike? Let me know your favorite!

alexsbrown Evaluating wrike project mngmnt system for a client. If you are a user, I would love to talk with you about it.

ResGeek More updates to #GTD Software Comparison List: Wrike now supports real-time updates from team members - http://j.mp/8aMrSK #TRO

pm4girls RT @corneliusficht: Need a tool to manage your projects via Email? Try www.wrike.com - I use it for my team and love it. <-- Wrike rocks!

corneliusficht Need a tool to manage your projects via Email? Try www.wrike.com - I use it for my team and love it.

TourismCollege http://www.wrike.com allows you to come up w/ project plan & assign tasks 2 the resp. people. Great for virtual office.

ken_guru Wrike project management integrating with Google Wave. These kinds of integrations is what will make #wave "mainstream" http://bit.ly/cUHVsS

TiptonCom Tipton Communications recommends wrike.com for project management and planning.

googlewavedev The @Wrike folks have blogged about their 2-way syncing between Waves & Project Tasks - Nice use of the active API! http://ow.ly/1YLjM 

ElPrezAU @kenleefh We use Wrike... I quite like it but I use it more for task management, dunno how it goes for handling projects over a lifespan.

Susan_Low I am so excited about implementing Wrike.com project management for my client. I think I need to do a happy dance.

weareid We've started using Wrike for project planning and resource management - http://www.wrike.com/r/46II8. Have a gander, there is a free trial.

pa1et Probando Wrike. http://www.wrike.es/ Cuales son las mejores herramientas 2.0 de gestión de proyectos que genere gants bien bonitos?

georgedearing Wrike becomes more Yammer-like with activity streams // http://bit.ly/cvVVay | #fb

bionicturtle @wrike love the yammer-like microblog. I'd love if we had option to tweet it out (e.g., if hashtag or something)

venturebeat Wrike merges project management with activity streams http://bit.ly/anUY9v by @CodyBarbierri

armanddp Wow, the new @wrike beta is slick. Just stumbled across the switch to beta button... Very nice. (http://wrike.com)

Follow us on Twitter to keep up with all our news and updates! There are a lot of them to come in the summertime. 


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Focus on Your Goals While Wrike Takes Care of the Project Communication Routine

Published by Dasha   |  Wednesday, 07 July, 2010
When your small team has to collaborate with numerous external partners, it’s an extra challenge to organize effective collaboration. Is it possible to manage the information flow under the high pressure of multitasking so that no tasks are forgotten, no documents are lost and everyone is kept up-to-date? Hildebrands GmbH, a German company that provides shop fitting solutions, works with 30+ external partners, so they’re very familiar with this situation. They found a solution to handle it. “Wrike minimizes the need to make numerous phone calls and send dozens of emails when working on a project. Wrike automatically takes care of a lot of routine communication tasks. Everyone who is involved gets instantly notified about the updates in the schedule,” says Gunter Hildebrand, managing partner at Hildebrands.

Read the whole interview with Gunter to find out how Wrike helped his company to save 25% of time spent on routine project communication tasks and to organize effective project collaboration with numerous external partners distributed all over Europe.
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Wrike Fuels Productivity

Published by Dasha   |  Thursday, 10 June, 2010
It’s an undeniable fact that people’s opinions differ. And even if several individuals are united with one goal, they don’t necessarily go the same way toward achieving it. This is as true for project teamwork as for any kind of cooperation. All the team members may have different views of the project, and everyone certainly has his or her own working habits. 

There has to be an opportunity to accommodate a variety of opinions in order to collaborate efficiently, according to Rurik Bradbury, chief marketing officer at Unison Technologies. Unison provides unified communications solutions to help businesses become more productive with their communications.  Aimed at increasing its own productivity, the company was looking for flexible project management software that would fit into the way its international team works.  “A good collaboration and project management solution is essential for getting things done in a team, especially in a distributed one,” says Rurik. It took Unison Technologies quite a long time to find the right tool. Most of the products the team tried had a unified structure of projects, which didn’t provide the flexibility the company needed. Thus, there was no gain in productivity.

However, it turned out to be absolutely different with Wrike. Unison Technologies has seen a major improvement in productivity after adopting the tool. Read the whole interview to find out how Wrike allowed a team separated by oceans to increase the number of completed tasks by 20%. 
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They’ve Already Tried the New Wrike. Have You?

Published by Dasha   |  Friday, 28 May, 2010
The new Wrike release has generated a lot of extra buzz. In the past couple of weeks, we were happy to see Wrike popping up in more and more Twitter posts. Those were endorsements of Wrike by existing subscribers, as well as the first impressions of the new users. Here’s a digest of the most interesting tweets. Read what Wrike users had to share with the world:

nathanelliott @itsChance I'm loving @wrike for online collaborative project management / timeline. You should check it out.

bradmcdiarmid
Looking for an alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint? Check out the easy to use Wrike at http://www.wrike.com/r/1L3IU 

motherlake_jp Have you tried the project management tool "Wrike"? It's really nice. Like Basecamp + Gantt chart. http://www.wrike.com/r/5XIGV

varithk PM SOFTWARE Wrike works fine for me

rareplay > Allows you to share plans and work on them together: http://www.wrike.com/ 

StephGeyer Have started using wrike.com for project management. Use this referral link if you want to check it out, too. http://www.wrike.com/r/D2RFC

bionicturtle our essential virtual business tools are @wrike (PM), @xero (accounting), @dropbox (files), @diigo (link, research collab)

bionicturtle i am liking the new @wrike beta

lauraschulz Playing with my newfound toys at #w2e: Wrike.com (proj man.), iPlotz (wireframing), raven cloud (process design).

harrymahardhika Project Management Software, Project Planning Software, Time Tracking Software: Wrike http://ff.im/jnry9

tinyrooster @cherylprolapse activecollab is full-featured but pricey! I liked wrike the best of ones you mentioned, looks easy to use and not overkill

Achint Glad to be Finally moving up from Excel for our Project Mgmt. Love the visual time-lines of Wrike

Thanks for spreading the word about Wrike! To keep up with all our news and recent updates, follow @wrike on Twitter.
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Please Welcome The New Wrike

Published by Daria   |  Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
We promised you the big news, so here it is. The last week was marked by several very special events. First, we participated in the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the biggest and the most popular conference in our industry, and had fantastic success there. Second, we are proud to let you know that our news was published on Forbes.com. Yet the most important thing last week was the spectacular unveiling of Wrike’s new version, which was released in beta.

The new Wrike is here, and it will redefine your project management and collaboration experience. With this new release, your favorite project management software is turned into a top-notch, e-mail-integrated, real-time project collaboration and productivity solution. We totally rethought the user interface and added several very simple, but incredibly powerful, features that will turn your team into project productivity rock stars.
 
Here are the highlights of the newest and best ways to manage your projects via e-mail and the Web:

Faster Performance, Clean and Intuitive User Interface  
The new Wrike is designed for speed and productivity. Every action — like creating a task or a project, assigning it to a team member, sharing project data with a team, or attaching a file — is done in a click or two. The new streamlined interface was developed based on extensive usability studies and deep analysis of Wrike users’ feedback. We want to thank all of you who shared your thoughts and ideas on how we can make Wrike a better solution.

Unparalleled Personal and Team Productivity
We enhanced the dashboard and turned it into a powerful, yet extremely easy to use, personal productivity tool. Upon opening the dashboard, you immediately see what you should be working on today and get real-time updates from your team members. From now on, it will be amazingly easy to coordinate the work of your team and closely follow the progress of multiple projects.

wrike dashboard



Social Project Management
Wrike’s new version takes the best of social networking and applies it to project management to maximize the productivity of your whole team. We introduced avatars to bring a visual experience to your team’s online interactions and emphasize the social part of your teamwork. We believe that, thanks to this feature, your project management platform becomes more engaging, which unquestionably results in growing efficiency in your project collaboration. Avatars also make your online workplace much friendlier and fun to use.

task view avatars


Real-Time Insight into Projects
The new Wrike gives you an ability to simultaneously see your tasks and projects compiled in a list and visualized on a Gantt chart. The list view provides you with the most important details about any particular task, including due dates, task duration and the people responsible for it. The Gantt chart pane visualizes all of the team’s changes to project plans in real time. The new timeline is the best way to get a 1,000-foot overview of your projects and your whole business.



These are just the highlights of the changes you’ll experience in the new version. We plan to write more about each of the new features and tell you how you can use them to maximize your team’s productivity. The best news is that you are able to check the elegant new design and test-drive the cool new features right now! Simply log in to the beta and explore the new Wrike.

You know that “your feedback is important” is not just a polite phrase to us. We’re building this app for thousands of our users, and every one of you has the power to make Wrike suit your needs better by sharing your opinion about the product with us. E-mail support@team.wrike.com with your comments and suggestions.
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What Wrike Users Have to Say about Its Features

Published by Dasha   |  Wednesday, 28 April, 2010
What helps Wrike to gain its users’ loyalty? That’s what you’ll learn from the new portion of Wrike users’ tweets that we’ve collected in the past few weeks. Read what they think of the product features and how Wrike responds to their business needs. We must say we are really proud to get positive comments from those who have chosen Wrike!  

WaveTekk http://www.wrike.com project managemen tools with 30-day trial, also they are provided video instruction, and really carry out our needs.
 
KarlieMacG @Consider_IT Wrike...I like it....ALOT :)
 
Consider_IT @KarlieMacG Wrike is good :)
 
krish_int http://www.wrike.com/- I think this can also be a better alternative to Deskaway as one can manage as many projects as you like  free Try!
 
tm65 Wrike seems like a nice tool.
 
lkr @ramit I would just contact @wrike, they have 99% of what u want out of the box, could maybe do a custom solution on the rest for u
 
millca @viticci Check out @wrike  --> It is the best project management software I've found -- soon to have an iPhone app too!
 
LovelyLauraRose I wrike! :)
 
mr_credit Wrike - Programming Blog: Active in over 50 countries, Wrike is often used by small business managers as well as v... http://bit.ly/c31THO
 
andreaverdiani Wrike: What can you use the application for? Wrike is an intuitive project management web... http://bit.ly/bi5rNd
 
andrewsthoughts Recent betas that I love the most: Google Voice international calls on Nexus and upcoming Wrike 3.0 release
 
lkr Two companies that keep my biz going: @infusionsoft & @wrike. Thank you both for listening to my feedback constantly improving!
 
core @marcomalacarne Wrike does a few things right. It has gantt charts and an integrated e-mail workflow.
 
emdyard Scheduling: Wrike Fine-tunes Project Scheduling, Doubles Task Management ... http://bit.ly/daPPiO
 
FRMNTRNSPRT WRIKE is the way we manage. www.wrike.com.
 
nancymyrland Project Management Software --> RT @wrike: @pricklypig any questions abt Wrike, we'll be happy to help! http://www.wrike.com
 
rjamestaylor Just received a personal note along with chocolate to check out a new product integration with Google Wave. It worked, @Wrike!
 
Keep sharing your thoughts about Wrike! By the way, it’s high time to become our follower on Twitter, if you’re not one yet. 
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Win a FREE iPad from Wrike at the Web 2.0 Expo!

Published by Daria   |  Sunday, 25 April, 2010
If you follow our blog closely, you already know that we’re getting ready for a grand release of Wrike’s new version. It will be unveiled during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The release is going to be unforgettable. We are going to demonstrate a solution for unparalleled project collaboration productivity at the Long Tail Pavilion, booth #17. But that’s not all!

To make the event even more exciting, we’re running a FREE giveaway. The prize: none other than your very own Apple Tablet! It’s not a contest; it’s a drawing, so anyone can enter, and everybody has a chance to win. The only thing you need to do is to register for the iPad giveaway and come to our booth #17 at the Long Tail Pavilion of Web 2.0 Expo SF on May 5. The winner will be randomly chosen and announced at 3:30 p.m.

Don’t miss your chance to win your own iPad and be one of the first to see how e-mail inbox chaos can be turned into revolutionary online productivity for a whole team. Register for Wrike’s FREE iPad giveaway now!

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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.
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