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Andrew Filev

Andrew Filev

Andrew Filev is the founder of Wrike. He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10+ years of experience in the IT arena, and an advisor to several fast-growing ventures. He has been featured in Forbes and The New York Times.
New Chapter for Wrike Under Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital
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New Chapter for Wrike Under Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital

Today marks a new chapter for Wrike as we complete our separation from Citrix Systems. We are also excited to announce that we have the financial backing of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, following the close of their acquisition of Citrix and its combination with TIBCO Software. Vista and Evergreen are investors with deep experience working with successful SaaS companies like ours. They understand Wrike's mission and values, including the keener edge we bring to the highly competitive work management space. We will leverage our newfound position as a private, autonomous company to continue pursuing innovation focused on solving dynamic workplace challenges and meeting the needs of the modern workforce. The market opportunity Over the last three years, digital transformation has dramatically accelerated, and our workplace has changed significantly. This created new opportunities to improve productivity. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, productivity in the non-farm business sector decreased 4.1% in the second quarter of 2022, with output decreasing 1.4%, while hours worked increased 2.7%. This is the largest decline in quarterly productivity since the third quarter of 1948. Many of us feel it in employee burnout, which drove the “Great Resignation” trend last year and the “Quiet Quitting” trend this year. In order to get actionable insights into these trends, we surveyed approximately 3,000 business leaders and workers and published the “Dark Matter of Work” report that shows 55% of the work that takes place within an organization is not visible to key stakeholders, costing organizations of 3,200 employees up to $60 million a year in wasted time, delayed or canceled projects, and employee churn. Companies have a unique opportunity to reverse this trend by taking the productivity and visibility benefits that workflow automation and work management offer, and unlocking the same benefits in the hundreds of workflows that live in the dark matter of spreadsheets and unstructured messages today. The bottom line: demand has never been greater for a work management platform that can meet the needs and job styles of individuals, while also giving an entire organization the collaboration, measurement, and visibility it needs to drive the business forward. Ushering in a new era of work management Over the last decade, we have created a collaborative work management category and brought several cornerstone innovations to it. In the process, we have rapidly evolved as a product and as an organization. We continue this evolution with more than 200 new releases and updates in the past year alone. Among these advancements is Custom Item Types, a unique core platform capability that enables users to create their own work item types tailored to their team’s specific culture and style. This has expanded our promise around versatility, opening our platform up to an infinite amount of use cases across departments and organizations.  Other recent platform releases include:  AI Subtask Creation, a feature that utilizes artificial intelligence to extract key action items from user-selected text and turn them into subtasks that can be assigned and distributed into a team’s workflow.  Resource Planning, a feature that helps department and team leaders, along with program and project managers, simplify and accelerate resource planning, especially for cross-team and cross-department projects.  Cloud Connector, a universal API that enables Wrike to integrate with any Digital Asset Management system of a customer’s choice. With all of the progress we’ve made, we still see these as the early days for our company, with tremendous potential ahead of us.  Our team keeps growing with the needs of our customers and our business. As we become an independent business again, we have hired two world-class executives: Thomas Scott as Chief Financial Officer and Brian Clark as Chief Revenue Officer. As Wrike moves forward, our focus remains the same. We have the most intuitive, versatile, and scalable work management platform on the market and a collaborative, driven team dedicated to freeing our customers to focus on their most purposeful work. There’s never been greater demand for a solution like ours and a better time to deliver it.  Join us at Wrike Collaborate on October 25-27, 2022, for major upcoming announcements. 

Dark Matter of Work: The Human Cost of Work Complexities
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Dark Matter of Work: The Human Cost of Work Complexities

Modern work complexities are hugely impacting employees, leading to frustration and burnout. Learn the true cost of the Dark Matter of Work in our new report.

Dark Matter of Work: The Financial Cost of Work Complexities
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Dark Matter of Work: The Financial Cost of Work Complexities

Modern work complexities are draining organizational efficiency. Learn the true cost of what we call the Dark Matter of Work in our new report.

PMI’s New Media Council: Count Me In!
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PMI’s New Media Council: Count Me In!

. This group was launched in October 2008 to help PMI and its members understand new and emerging trends in the project management profession, especially those being discussed in new media channels: blogs, podcasts, social networks, Twitter, etc. I believe this is an outstanding initiative that will help to bridge the gap between traditional project management techniques and opportunities for enhancing collaboration on projects that are offered by the development of the Web. I’d also like to note that, by joining the Council, I found myself in a great company. The other influential voices that form the panel are: •    Bas de Baar, Project Shrink •    Cornelius Fichtner, The Project Management Podcast •    Dave Garrett, Gantthead •    Elizabeth Harrin, A Girl's Guide to Project Management •    Hal Macomber, Reforming Project Management •    Jerry Manas, PMThink! •    Josh Nankivel, PM Student •    Chalyce Nollsch, PM Bistro I’m sure you know many of them already, but if you don’t, I strongly encourage you to check out the blogs of my fellow council members. You’ll find plenty of helpful information that you can use every day while working on your projects.

Hear about Project Management 2.0 at pm411.org
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Hear about Project Management 2.0 at pm411.org

Not so long ago, I was interviewed by Ron Holohan, MBA PMP. Ron is the author of the popular pm411.org site, which is dedicated to all the topics related to project management: tools, tips, methodologies, books, you name it. What I really like about pm411.org is that Ron tries to look at the practical side of things and pays attention how the material he blogs about can be applied to real-life projects, including his own. Another great thing about Ron's site is that the author combines blog posts and podcasts, so that many interviews are available in both written and audio formats, and you can choose the one that's most convenient for you. pm411.org should be the 34th in my Selected Blogs list. I promise to write an update on my directory, as there are some great suggestions in the comments to the post. Ron's site will definitely be in the updated blogs collection. During the interview, Ron and I spoke about different aspects of Project Management 2.0 and also about our project management software, Wrike. I know that some of you have already listened to the interview podcast. Thanks for listening, and I hope you liked it! For those of you who have not yet checked it out, my interview is Podcast episode 050 at pm411.org.

Is the Project Management 2.0 Field Full of Silos?
Project Management 5 min read

Is the Project Management 2.0 Field Full of Silos?

It's obvious that the technological communities are thriving, despite the unstable economical situation. I was invited to submit a few topics to several IT and PM conferences that will be held next year. Browsing through the areas of focus of these conferences, I've noticed that there are more and more talks about integration between data sources and software applications. In the era of Web as a platform, talks about integration are pretty loud indeed. Web-based application developers integrate their products with desktop software, as well as with other online tools. Mashups are hot today. This integration trend does affect the Project Management 2.0 space, as well. Here and there we witness popular project management tools becoming integrated with invoicing, budgeting, time-tracking and CRM applications, to name but a few. However, many excellent efforts to draw together sets of data and resources utilizing Web 2.0 technologies have inevitably resulted in the creation of many silos of data that users have to interact with on a silo-by-silo basis. This problem is solved in many consumer-oriented Web applications, but in the business space, we are witnessing two major problems of this kind:   Silos within the account. Many collaboration and productivity tools use the words "project" or "workspace" to describe the barriers that they build for their users. Are you running ten projects? How would you like logging into ten different Web sites to see where you stand? This sounds like the first-generation Web, but it's a reality in many so-called "Web 2.0" tools. A user cannot keep and manage his information in one place, as he needs a separate Web page for any piece of information. This approach kills productivity and does not allow people to manage overlapping activities in one place. Instead of getting things done, users have to jump between sites, looking for the right one to put in their updates. It also stops the network effect, preventing the team from unleashing its collective intelligence. Silos between accounts. Many project management tools do not integrate the project management data of two different organizations working together. Companies have to have separate accounts and separate plans with duplicate entries. Imagine a LinkedIn where you would have to create a new account for every new company your work for or with. Sounds weird. Nevertheless, many (if not most) of the project management tools, both traditional and "Web 2.0," force you to manage two separate instances. A good comparison in the enterprise world is two companies running two ERP solutions with an integrated supply chain management module versus a purchaser and supplier running completely disintegrated solutions. So instead of making users productive, many of the so-called Web 2.0 software developers often keep creating those artificial barriers for their users. Solutions that offer opportunities for true user's data integration, such as enterprise work management software, are rare. Why create these barriers? Shouldn't next-generation applications utilize a different model? For example, e-mail or social networks concentrate the data around the user, not an artificial barrier. A globally unified e-mail network, for example, lets users efficiently communicate, collecting users' data in one workspace, centered on the user. So when the user works on many projects, or with many companies, he or she doesn't have to open ten different e-mail clients. This is one of the reasons why e-mail is the most popular communication tool in most organizations today. Social networks like MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook would never have acquired millions of users if they had created similar obstacles for the users. A user-centric approach and ease of use should be the basis of truly ubiquitous Enterprise 2.0 and Project Management 2.0 applications. All those data silos should be merged in one single data network, so that any bit of information is easily accessible. By opening more collaboration options, this helps to better leverage "the wisdom of the many." Such applications also have the power to give a massive boost to their users' productivity, by making the users' lives easier. People can get more done, when they don't have to waste time on things like bouncing from one workspace to another, searching for the necessary data. Do you suffer from these data silos? Wouldn't the model similar to that of e-mail and social networks allow enterprises to become more efficient? Let me know what you think in the comments to this post.

The Dream
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The Dream

From a simple point of view, Wrike is a combination of some very helpful and innovative features, like the ability to assign tasks in e-mails, to get daily reminders about overdue tasks, to organize tasks in a convenient way, to instantly see what others are doing and so on. But once you start using Wrike you see that there is a great synergistic effect. It’s easy to assign tasks, so you can keep track of more things. It’s easy to organize more things, so you are not lost in 100 tasks to-do lists. You start to plug-in your peers, managers and employees and see that it’s much easier to collaborate with them. In the ideal scenario, everybody around you is using Wrike, you share different folders of tasks with different folders of your peers. But you still get the full picture and easily navigate the network of tasks in the Wrike interface, just like you do it in your mind. Think about organizations: Wrike helps to build companies with absolute transparency. The top manager may drill down to the level of a concrete employee several layers beneath him, see what the person is doing and recognize her efforts. When somebody needs to be in the loop, you just share a project with him and he subscribes to the notifications. When you e-mail something, you are not afraid that it will be forgotten. When you finish a task, you are sure that your colleagues will stay in the loop. The number of reports and status update requests is minimized, saving everybody’s time. And what’s best is that you may easily plug in the plan for your next vacation along with your work projects and make sure that you always see what is important and relevant for YOU. So Wrike is about two things – making collaboration better and making your life simpler. You have more time and energy for more important, creative and fun things in your life. That was our dream when we started Wrike.

33 Selected Blogs About Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!
Project Management 7 min read

33 Selected Blogs About Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!

What project management blogs do you read? I’ve assembled a list of blogs that give me substantial food for thought when I write on innovations in project management. The list also includes blogs that serve as great sources of information about Enterprise 2.0, new management methodologies, leadership, motivation, as well as useful project management tips you can use in your day-to-day job. I hope these resources will help you take a look at your management practices from another point of view or perhaps even  push you to radical changes in the ways you manage your projects and teams. I wrote a short summary for every blog, so that it would be more convenient for you. Enjoy! I deliberately listed these blogs in alphabetical order, giving no preferences. I did it because I want you to decide which blogs will make it to TOP 10 Blogs for Project Manager 2.0. I’m a believer in collective intelligence, and I think that ratings like this should be made collaboratively. So I want you to let me know which of the blogs on this list you like best and why. Just leave a comment to this post. You don’t see a blog that makes worthwhile Project Management 2.0 reading? Tell me what blogs on project management, Enterprise 2.0, leadership and team-building you read. Go ahead and post the link to your favorite blog related to these topics in the comments. I also ask you not to post links to irrelevant blogs, e.g. blogs marketing a particular project management product or training program. 1.   A Girl’s Guide to Project Management – the name of this blog can be misleading, as it will be interesting even to those who don’t fall into the “4girls” category. Elizabeth Harrin blogs about everything connected with project management: events, books, tools, real-life war stories, you name it. 2.   Agile Software Development Made Easy! – a site where you can find the answers to all your questions about agile management, agile software development, agile planning and agile-related methodologies, such as  Scrum, eXtreme Programming and Lean. 3.   Andrew McAfee’s Blog: the creator of the term Enterprise 2.0 blogs on his recent research in this sphere and analyses how Enterprise 2.0 is changing the way organizations work today. 4.   Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad is a useful source of ideas, analysis and examples for those who are interested in the HR aspect of Enterprise 2.0 and social technologies. 5.   Better Projects: Craig Brown blogs about project management in real life, requirements management, leadership, etc. You’ll find numerous tips that will help you in puzzling moments. 6.   CloudAve – a group of bloggers, lead by Zoli Erdos and Ben Kepes “live and breathe cloud computing.” They cover the latest news in this industry and publish analytical posts about SaaS, enterprise software, project management and related topics. 7.   Collaboration 2.0 – an influential, seasoned Enterprise 2.0 consultant, Oliver Marks, writes about collaboration in the enterprise, its development, its necessity, its road blocks, its examples and tools that can be used to foster collective work in an organization. 8.   Daniel H. Pink (personal blog): Dan is a great thinker who has interesting ideas on motivation and management in the new creative economy. 9.    Dave Garrett’s Project Management 2.0 – a blog where the author covers different real-life project management situations, helping his readers to overcome difficulties they may have in running their projects. 10.   Enterprise Web 2.0: Dion Hinchcliffe, an influential Enterprise 2.0 thinker, analyses the latest trends in this industry and gives his unique point of view on how Web 2.0 social technologies are reshaping the business world. 11.   Eric Brown’s Technology, Strategy, People & Projects – a wonderful collection of the author’s ideas and tips on topics from project management to business models and business strategy. Many of you will probably find Eric’s “New CIO” series very useful. 12.   Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0, written by an outstanding management innovator, is a perfect place to find thoughts on how the development of the technologies transform the traditional management discipline. 13.   Gil Yehuda's Enterprise 2.0 Blog – here you’ll find practical advice on how you can upgrade your organization’s collaboration and management practices with Enterprise 2.0 tools and behaviors. 14.   ITSinsider: Susan Scrupski is a well-known Enterprise 2.0 expert and has a very interesting blog where she publishes her thoughts on the latest trends  in this sphere. 15.   Leading Agile touches important topics connected with agile management in the enterprise: methods, adoption, culture, etc. 16.   Leading Answers – what I like about this blog is that its author, Mike Griffins, an expert in both agile and traditional project management, writes in plain English and gives you practical knowledge on leadership, team-building and other important soft skills that you’ll be able to apply to your projects right away. 17.   /message -- Stowe Boyd, a well-known social tools advocate and visionary, analyses the phenomenon he calls “social Web revolution.” If you’re interested in social tech and how it can be applied to business, this is the place for you to go. 18.   Moving Beyond Management reflects the recent activity of the PMI agile and leadership communities. This blog gives you an idea of what’s hot in agile project management today. 19.   NOOP.NL – a blog dedicated to managing software development; however, you can also find articles on general project management topics like motivation, leadership, discipline, etc. 20.   PMPodcast, authored by a PMP with 18 years of project management experience, this podcast offers some very interesting interviews that give you an understanding of how projects are managed in today’s organizations. 21.   PM Student – if you are a project management newbie, this blog should be your first destination for getting-started tips. 22.   Portals and KM, written by Bill Ives, is a place where you’ll find analyses of the recent Enterprise 2.0 field news, Enterprise 2.0 case studies and thoughts on social media’s practical application to business. 23.   Pretzel Logic covers social software and contains lots of helpful information on developing an Enterprise 2.0 strategy. 24.   Project Shrink – the author of the blog, Bas de Baar, is a “Project Leadership/Social Media guy” and writes about motivation, communication and the transformation of the project manager’s role in the present business environment. 25.   Raven’s Brain – a spot where you’ll find numerous tips on project and program management, personal productivity, professional development and soft skills that you’ll need to build a successful project management career. 26.   Scobleizer  is a hot spot where tech enthusiast and video podcast evangelist Robert Scoble expresses his views on the newest online technologies, gadgets, social media sites, etc., and keeps you up-to-date with the latest trends in this sphere. 27.   Scott Berkun’s blog is a place where you’ll find lots of thought-provoking posts on managing innovation that instantly grab your attention and make easy reading, thanks to the inimitable style of the author. 28.   Scott Gavin, the creator of the famous “meet Charlie” presentation, blogs about how Enterprise 2.0 tools empower innovation and collaboration in the business environment. 29.   Software Project Management is mainly a blog about the software development lifecycle, and the author, Pawel Brodzinski, also writes thoughtful pieces on agility, project management, team-building and other things that will be interesting to a Project Manager 2.0. 30.   TED is not actually a regular blog, but rather a site devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and it is an unparalleled collection of talks and presentations given by the world’s most innovative minds from different areas. 31.   The FASTForward Blog – an in-depth collective analysis of the current Enterprise 2.0 potential and opportunities, as well as obstacles that sometimes prevent this movement from gaining immediate popularity among business people. 32.   Voices on Project Management – written by a number of highly professional project managers from different regions and industries, this blog is a perfect place to find helpful tips on things like sustainability, talent management, ROI, programs and portfolios, and all points in between. 33.   Zen, Project Management, and Life, written by Bob Tarne, who’s great at introducing new ideas that can be incorporated into your project management practices. Now, go ahead and start voting!

Dropbox's Move Reminds Us Teams Must Evolve Beyond Email
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Dropbox's Move Reminds Us Teams Must Evolve Beyond Email

With the news that our partners at Dropbox have decided to discontinue their email app Mailbox, I wanted to take a moment to reflect upon the state of our industry as a provider of Work Management and Collaboration Software.  First, let me say that Mailbox was a great email app. A lot of users are going to miss it. It brought swipe gestures and snooze into emails, and a polished user interface. At the time of its launch, these were very overdue additions to the email experience.  That said, it had a major flaw. It wasn’t a technical flaw or even a user experience flaw; Mailbox did everything it was supposed to do. Its flaw was a philosophical one that limited its value for individual business users. Our team at Wrike recently conducted a survey of the pains of workers and compiled the results into our 2015 Work Management Report. Among the interesting findings were that two of the biggest roadblocks to getting work done are “Waiting for Other People” and “Missing Information.” Within these statistics lies the flaw in Mailbox as a solution: You can give email a new paint job, but at the end of the day, it’s still a silo.  The engine for email is an individual engine. Mailbox helped improve personal productivity, and for its users, many of them saw real results. But the biggest pains for workers in 2015 are team pains, and improving the experience of email does not solve those. The best way to improve individual productivity is by enabling team productivity.  At Wrike, we have mobile apps with an Inbox feature not unlike Mailbox. It allows users to easily view new messages, and respond to them with swipe gestures. The fundamental difference is that it sits on a platform that is built around team visibility and collaboration.  When you receive a notification in your Wrike Inbox, you know who on your team can also see that update, and you don’t need to worry about who’s CC'd or fear that you’ll be delaying a project by delaying your response. All the vital information is presented, and previous conversations are clearly organized. In short, it’s more than a new paint job, it’s a whole new paradigm. Mailbox was a great app for its time. But its retirement shows that Dropbox sees what we have seen for nearly a decade: teams hold the key to successful businesses, and improving the way they work together is the fastest way to meeting big goals.  If you were a Mailbox user, I hope you’ll check out what we’re doing at Wrike. We’ve got tools for teams of all sizes, and I’m confident you’ll be impressed by the way we’ve evolved the inbox and the experience of working with your team.  

The Long Tail of Project Management
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The Long Tail of Project Management

  Chris Anderson builds an interesting case around the concept of the long tail of retail (The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More). I will save you the joy of reading it, and I won’t recount his whole work here. I still wanted to share an interesting story about collective intelligence from his book. Anderson writes that, today, NASA often calls on amateurs to watch for specific asteroids that might be headed for Earth. It all started when amateur astronomers helped to make observations of Supernova 1987 that led to the confirmation of a key theory explaining how the universe works. Demos, a British think tank, described this in a 2004 report as a key moment in the arrival of a "Pro-Am" era, a time when professionals and amateurs work side by side: "Astronomy used to be done in 'big science' research institutes. Now it is also done in Pro-Am collaboratives.” Today, amateurs and professionals are working together successfully, thanks to the enabling technologies of this “Pro-Am movement,” and perhaps the most important of them is the arrival of the Internet as a mechanism for sharing information. This example from contemporary astrophysics shows that classic disciplines can be democratized, i.e. brought into a broader context. Chris points to the astronomy example, while I, in this blog, try to prove that it is also true for project management. Now let’s get back to the subject of this post and take a look at the “long tail” concept applied to project management. Construction and industrial projects are the backbone of traditional project management as we know it. Numerous great projects were built, thanks to the project management methodologies and techniques that today have become classics of the discipline. Project Apollo, the England-France Channel, the recent CERN project that generates so much buzz nowadays — all these projects represent the tremendous achievements of traditional project management science. These projects involved sky-high budgets, gigantic teams, multiple vendors, long lifecycles and other attributes of a so-called megaproject. These projects and thousands of other megaprojects rolled out today also imply astronomic risks and therefore require the use of a complex project management methodology with the right processes in place and management by experienced, certified PMPs. But what are the chances that you’ll get to manage a giant project like that? Recent statistics prove that your chances are not that big.  In my previous post, I already referred to the fact that, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 50% of U.S. workers are employed by SMBs, which do not have colossal budgets, but still need to run dozens of projects. These projects are smaller in size, budget, the number of people involved andthe lifecycle duration. I mean projects like creating aWeb site, arranging a successful office relocation or developing a local coffee shop marketing campaign. These projects do not involve million-dollar risks, but these are projects, nevertheless, as they are unique and have a goal that should be achieved within budget, according to specification and by a certain time. These projects are normally managed by people who have never heard of PMI, PMBOK, Waterfall project management or Agile, but even so, these projects represent the absolute majority of all the projects undertaken these days. When people ask me about the primary area of Project Management 2.0 application, I say that it is in the projects that drop into this second category. It does not mean, however, that Project Management 2.0 is limited to SMBs. Nowadays, there’s a tendency to break large projects into smaller ones to ensure the large project’s success. Statistics prove that large projects are inherently risky and more likely to fail than smaller projects. From a study of over 23,000 projects performed recently, Standish Group found that the success rate dropped as the project duration increased. I recommend you have a look at this article by Mike Griffiths to get more details on this survey. Mike is one of the proponents of scaling large projects into smaller ones, an approach that is frequently used these days to reduce project risks (see this example from IBM’s Rational Software Process Business Unit). It is in these smaller parts of a larger project where Project Management 2.0 can also be very successfully applied. Let me illustrate the areas of Project Management 2.0 application with a graph that reflects a concept borrowed from retail – the long tail. The vertical axis represents the size of the projects, and the horizontal axis stands for the project quantity. In this particular chart, I’ve decided not to choose a single differentiator for  project size (i.e. people, budget, resources, calendar time, efforts, etc.). The picture is illustrating the general concept, so it will apply to many of these scales to some extent. By the smallest projects, I mean personal assignments that are often managed ad hoc or with the  help of personal productivity methodologies like “Getting Things Done.” The opposite extreme represents megaprojects, like building a new city hospital or constructing a bridge that will unite two islands. These projects usually involve traditional project management techniques or even more complex program management and project portfolio management methods. Now, when we slice this chart, we see the gradation of applications of project management approaches. Slice 1 is long because there are numerous personal projects. It’s mostly blue because it’s the area where personal productivity methodologies are usually applied. Slice 2 is higher on the vertical axis and represents the team space. Here, personal productivity is still very important, but team collaboration and project leadership are imperative and begin to play a more significant role. Therefore, this area is major in terms of Project Management 2.0 application. When we move higher along the vertical axis, the size of projects, delivery risks and budgets, the number of people involved, and other factors grow. Slice 3 is rather short because there are not many megaprojects executed in comparison with small projects, as the SMB stats that I mentioned above show. Here’s where traditional project management comes into play. When the complexity of projects rises, more sophisticated methods, like program management and portfolio management, are needed. Still, when the project complexity grows from personal to small projects and then from small to large industrial projects, the methods that were used for a simple project also will be used in the background. That is, on the industrial project level, there is a need for extensive coordination and governance, scheduling and resource allocation, etc. However, elements of a large project also will include Project Management 2.0 with its focus on productivity, collective intelligence and leadership. At the same time, in the Project Management 2.0 world, on the lower level, there are personal tasks of individual team members to which personal productivity will be applied. So, to summarize, I don’t see it as black and white, i.e. that certain methods must be applied to certain projects.  Rather, I see it as a gradient. The more complexity a project involves, the more risks are connected with it and the more formal the processes and methods undertaken for its completion will be. The less complex the project is, the more informal the processes and methodologies applied to the project will be. This is just a concept, of course, and it does not claim to be exhaustive. I’d like to know what you think about it. Please let me know in the comments. In conclusion, I’d like to note that Chris Anderson also says that, of course, democratization of astronomy has its limits. Pro-Ams are largely collecting data, not creating new theories of astrophysics. Nevertheless, their place in the field seems assured. The same can be said about the project management field: Project Management 2.0 will not replace traditional project management methods (as they still will be needed on the industrial project level), but it can be the most productive way to manage day-to-day projects for many of us. Update: It turned out that the concept of the long tail was used once already to describe the difference between “simple” and “complex” projects by my fellow-blogger, Bas de Baar. Each of us utilized the model in his own way, though.

5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Micromanagement & Leadership (Part 1 of 5)
Project Management 3 min read

5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Micromanagement & Leadership (Part 1 of 5)

You've assigned an important task to an employee. Now, do you let him do his work, or do you keep dropping by his desk and sending emails to check on his progress?

Collaborating with Vista Equity Partners to Fuel Hypergrowth
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Collaborating with Vista Equity Partners to Fuel Hypergrowth

This morning we announced that Wrike has received a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners.

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