Wrike's founder is a speaker at The SF New Tech Meetup. Andrew will show you how to manage projects in small and medium businesses with all the benefits of enterprise project management suites.
When:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 7:00 PM
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Wrike's founder is a speaker at The SF New Tech Meetup. Andrew will show you how to manage projects in small and medium businesses with all the benefits of enterprise project management suites.
When:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 7:00 PM
Recently we activated a filter in Wrike as one of the tools that make time and activities tracking easy. The filter doesn’t only select the tasks or folders you need, it helps you manage your information and track projects. Filter activities you work on together Let me demonstrate how it works. You want to have a picture of all tasks that John is in charge of and shares with Mary and that are already completed. So, you want to know how productive they are or simply remind yourself of what activities they worked on together. Filter all of the activities by status – choose “Completed”, then “Assigned to” – John and “Shared with” – Mary. Or vice versa: first by responsible, then by status. No matter. Now you have a list of the selected tasks. The benefit of this approach is that you not only can track separate projects, but also cross-folders. You may know what your peers or sub ordinatas are in charge of and what kind of tasks they perform.
Recently we activated a filter in Wrike as one of the tools that make time and activities tracking easy. The filter doesn’t only select the tasks or folders you need, it helps you manage your information and track projects. Filter activities you work on together Let me demonstrate how it works. You want to have a picture of all tasks that John is in charge of and shares with Mary and that are already completed. So, you want to know how productive they are or simply remind yourself of what activities they worked on together. Filter all of the activities by status – choose “Completed”, then “Assigned to” – John and “Shared with” – Mary. Or vice versa: first by responsible, then by status. No matter. Now you have a list of the selected tasks. The benefit of this approach is that you not only can track separate projects, but also cross-folders. You may know what your peers or sub ordinatas are in charge of and what kind of tasks they perform.
As your work continuously gathers pace, Wrike project management software is keeping up, too. Now we introduce a new, super-fast tool for creating multiple tasks. This is a great feature that makes laborious things much easier. It comes in really handy when you need to quickly pinpoint new to-dos during a meeting or outline a new project with the major tasks that go into it. How it works By default, the newly created tasks are backlogged with a one-day duration. This allows you to treat them as notes until you decide to schedule or assign to someone on your team. Often, you might need to assign all new tasks to the same person or schedule them on the same date in a batch. In this case, you might find the multiple-editing feature very helpful. For your convenience, when you create new tasks in the list sorted by date, the new tasks are put in the “Later” group (yes, there are groups in the task list now!). New shortcuts 'Shift + Enter' to insert new tasks in the middle of the list If the task list you created is rather long, you don’t have to scroll down to create new tasks – just click on any task, hold Shift and press Enter to insert new tasks in the middle of the list. It’s especially convenient when your task list is sorted by priority. The tasks stay right where you inserted them, keeping the order of your priorities. With other sortings, the tasks will be reordered accordingly in real time. Say, if you created new tasks in the group of tasks planned for today and then schedule them a week ahead, they’ll be instantly moved to the group called “this week” for your convenience. 'Enter' to edit task titles inline If you need to change the task name while navigating the task list with arrow keys, just press Enter and start editing the task name. Then press Enter again to save the changes. After the title is edited, you are automatically taken to creation of a new task. You can start typing to create a new task, or click Enter again to get back to the previous task. If you changed your mind while editing the task name and want to keep the existing title, press Esc. This might sound a bit complicated, but it just involves pressing Enter and typing, so just try it and you’ll quickly get it! Enjoy the fast pace and increased efficiency of your work!