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...

Wrike's Gantt Chart Goes Mobile!
The Beta Version is Already in Your iPhone and Android Apps

: Published by Nadia | Thursday, 14 February, 2013
Have you already checked out the latest version of Wrike’s app on your smartphone? If not, then it’s high time to have a look at it ;-) There is an awesome, must-see update: the dynamic mobile Gantt chart is now available in beta.

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Customer’s Tip of the Day: Think Globally, Plan for Tomorrow

: Published by Anne | Thursday, 23 August, 2012
Planning accurately, estimating task duration and keeping it close to reality – these aren’t easy things to do. And now imagine this is happening in a start-up where you do things that you have never done before (or even no one in the world has)!

Today, Chris Rider, project manager at the fast-moving chemistry startup Terramera, shares how his team has enhanced its planning with the help of Wrike’s interactive timeline. Read more...

Build Even More Accurate Plans with Task Date Constraints on Wrike’s Timeline

: Published by Dasha | Wednesday, 16 February, 2011
This week, we released an important update to Wrike’s Dynamic Timeline™ – task date constraints. This feature is familiar to those of you who switched to Wrike project management software from Microsoft Project. In this post, we’ll tell you about this new functionality and how you and your peers can benefit from using it.

From time to time, we all have to deal with tasks that are closely connected to each other in the project workflow. In such cases, Wrike’s Dynamic Timeline™ becomes an irreplaceable project management tool that allows you to quickly build a precise plan, considering the connection between tasks and the circumstances that may affect them. Wrike lets you connect tasks with dependencies within one project, as well as set cross-project dependencies. Now, with the release of constraints on the timeline, the dependent tasks can have a time lag between them, so that you can build even more accurate project schedules!

Let’s simplify this real business scenario to an exemplary situation, where only two tasks are involved. Say you plan to interview one of your most loyal customers and publish a success story on your website. First, you need to prepare the list of questions. Only after the questions are ready can you proceed to the interview. However, you find out that your customer is going on a 3-day business trip and can’t have the interview on the day you initially planned. You need to reflect this delay in the project schedule. In this case, you can connect these two tasks on the timeline, considering the date constraints. Here’s how: point the cursor over the top right-hand corner of the task bar for “Prepare questions.” A small triangle appears. Click on the triangle and drag the line to the dependent task, called “Interview the customer.” This way, you can create a strict dependency. Then drag the dependent task on the timeline to the proper start date to create a task date constraint, as shown in the screenshot below.

Here’s what your timeline will look like after the change is made:

Task date constraints on Wrike’s timeline will help you build an accurate project plan that’s shared with your peers. If we look at it on a wider scale, this will keep your project workflow perfectly organized in a multitasking environment and help your team avoid any slips in the schedule.

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 project management software 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.

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.

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!

Build Task Dependencies to Schedule Projects

Published by Valerie | Monday, 04 August, 2008

Wrike’s users benefit from the timeline feature that allows them to plan projects and reschedule tasks with drag-and-drop support. You can drag the task bar on the chart to change the task duration, start date or end date. Once any change is made, your team members are instantly notified about it via e-mail, RSS or iCal feed.

Task dependencies, an important project management feature, have been launched this week. Wrike automatically links tasks so that a rescheduling of a top task cascades down to its dependent tasks, immediately displaying the downstream effects on the entire project. This results in a far more accurate and maintainable project plan. Watch a demo of task dependencies in action.

How task dependencies work.

Log into your Wrike workspace.
Switch to the Timeline tab.
Expand folders if necessary.
Point the cursor over the top right corner of the task bar. A small triangle appears.

Create a dependency using the drag-and-drop support. Click on the triangle and drag the line to the dependent task.

If you are a Wrike user and you don’t have an enterprise subscription, Wrike gives you an option to upgrade to an enterprise subscription.

Task dependencies are available to you with an enterprise subscription. We welcome you to upgrade your account and instantly benefit from task dependencies.

If you are keeping your plans in Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel, it is very easy to start using Wrike. You can simply import your MS Project files to Wrike, share them with your colleagues and work on the plans together, anytime and anywhere. Sign up for Wrike now and get a 30-day free trial.

Expand All Folders on a Timeline with a One-click Action

: Published by Valerie | Wednesday, 02 July, 2008
Today, we would like to delight you with a very handy feature. Now you can expand and collapse all your timelines with a one-click action. Once you click on the appropriate icon, all subfolders within a selected folder expand to show all its tasks on a timeline. The same applies to the way you can collapse all folders displayed on a timeline. Simply click on the icon with the upward arrow to collapse all folders.

For new users, by selected folder we mean a folder that you select in the left pane of your workspace.

Now Wrike Users Can Easily Print a Timeline

: Published by Valerie | Sunday, 04 May, 2008
We are delighted to tell you that we have released a new feature – timeline printing.

To get a printed version of a timeline, you no longer need to take its screenshot and paste it from a clipboard to Word/Paint/etc. to be able to print it afterward.

Thanks to the new Wrike feature, all you have to do is click on the “Print” icon in the upper right corner of a timeline view. You instantly get a graphic file in the PNG format, ready to print. It evidently saves you time and effort.

Besides, an additional size option allows you to have your timeline printed in the scale you need. You can choose the necessary scale for the timeline view by selecting weeks, months, quarters or years in zoom.

So, you quickly get a handy printed version of your project plan that can be helpful at meetings and presentations.

The timeline printing feature is our response to our users’ numerous requests that we are always willing to listen to. We are glad to develop the most practical project management tool the way users need it.