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Open Innovation and Its Success Stories: Sneak Peak at My E2 Innovate Presentation
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Open Innovation and Its Success Stories: Sneak Peak at My E2 Innovate Presentation

. He has a lot to share on how open innovation helps his company be the global leader in scientific and healthcare equipment. Instead of limiting your innovation process to just a few dedicated professionals in-house, you can engage talents from outside the department, outside your organization, even outside your industry and your country. The open innovation model is one of the areas where collective intelligence is leveraged in the most prominent way. In our presentation, Damon and I will observe how open innovation can make your organization more competitive. More revolutionary ideas, increased cost efficiency, new paths to market - these are just a few of the advantages you can gain. In addition to Thermo Fisher's experience, we’ll highlight case studies from different industries, including software, FMCG and others. Whether you're only considering adopting the open innovation model, or you already have your own success story to share – you're more than welcome to join us at the Santa Clara Convention Center! If you plan to attend, drop me a note, and I'll provide you with a promo code for a discount on the conference pass or a free expo pass. If you are a Wrike customer, I also have a limited number of session passes that I could distribute.

More Results, Less Busywork: Introducing Wrike's Automation Engine
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More Results, Less Busywork: Introducing Wrike's Automation Engine

Move beyond basic, one-off integrations to comprehensive workflow automation with Wrike Integrate and our new Automation Engine.

Wrike's Blog Subscription is Moving! (Your Action Required)
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Wrike's Blog Subscription is Moving! (Your Action Required)

If you're a current email subscriber to Wrike's blog, or would like to subscribe for the first time, we have important news. Current Email Subscribers (Action Required): We're switching subscription services — if you want to continue to receive blog updates, click on this form and add your email address: Click here to resubscribe Interested In Becoming a New Subscriber? If you're not subscribed yet, but you're interesting in getting the latest tips, news, and product updates by email, click here: First-time subscribers click here  What will you get if you subscribe? Examples of past posts that we've published on the blog include the following: Thought Leadership, Tips, and Strategies: • So You Want to be a Global Project Manager? • 10 Reasons Projects Fail: Lessons from the Death Star • 9 Phrases to Jumpstart Productivity When Delegating a Task Important Wrike product news: • Productivity Release: 3 New Features to Make Your Team More Productive • Timeline Snapshot: Share Project Plans and Status with Anyone • Our Android App Has 2 New Swipe Functions   Subscribe Now      Resubscribe Now  

Drive the Future of Your Work With Wrike’s New Work Intelligence™
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Drive the Future of Your Work With Wrike’s New Work Intelligence™

Wrike is thrilled to announce Work Intelligence™, the most comprehensive artificial intelligence and machine learning-based engine that taps into millions of user actions to increase automation, make recommendations, and predict outcomes.

Meet Wrike Zapp: Your Soon-To-Be Best Friend in Zoom Meetings
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Meet Wrike Zapp: Your Soon-To-Be Best Friend in Zoom Meetings

Wrike is elated to announce that we've joined forces with Zoom, a leader in modern enterprise video communications, to develop Wrike Zapp. Read more about this new extension and how it can help you coordinate on Wrike tasks in real time during your Zoom meetings.

It’s On! The New Wrike Experience Is Here
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It’s On! The New Wrike Experience Is Here

At Wrike our objective has always been to build a platform configurable and powerful enough to handle any situation and that provides you with the tools you need to do your best work. That's why we'd love to introduce you to the New Experience.

Leverage the Power of Data and Process With Wrike for Marketers Performance
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Leverage the Power of Data and Process With Wrike for Marketers Performance

Wrike for Marketers Performance unifies teams and campaign insights in one workspace by centralizing data from 50 popular tools, enabling you to better monitor marketing efforts.

How to organize goals and milestones in Wrike
Project Management 3 min read

How to organize goals and milestones in Wrike

One of the best ways to organize your project effectively is to interconnect the tasks with the project goals. Thanks to this, tasks become meaningful for your team, people become more motivated and thus you get things done faster. For example, if you manage an online ad campaign, you can create top folders named after your goals: increase  CTR, increase traffic, increase conversion rate. If you often create tasks via e-mail, it will be more convenient to name folders with shorter titles and describe exact goals in the folder details. Thus you get an important advantage: you can specify goals with numbers, such as: “Increase conversion rate from 5% to 20%.” Similarly, you can organize your tasks by the project milestones: In both cases, your tasks will include concrete steps to achieve the goals or the milestones. For example, these tasks can be: “try different landing page,” “specify keywords,” "create text ad for the new keywords," etc. As you can see, Wrike is very flexible. You can organize your plans conveniently and easy. If you are intersted in other ways of organizing your tasks in Wrike, you can read about How to organize work of departments, How to customize statuses, How to better organize projects and events, How to organize client projects.

Give Your Friends a Free Two-Month Trial of Wrike's Service
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Give Your Friends a Free Two-Month Trial of Wrike's Service

If you like what you see in Wrike, we welcome you to help us spread the word. More colleagues in the system means more value for you. The growth also helps us fund product development to bring you new, innovative features faster. We highly appreciate when our users give us a reference, and we want to help you as much as possible with that. Now you can give your friends, vendors and customers a FREE two-month trial of Wrike's service. How does it work? 1.    You get a unique discount code by clicking the special button in your account. 2.    You refer a friend to Wrike, and the friend signs up for Wrike, using the discount code. Please note that the unique code is applicable for new users only. 3.    Your friend gets a FREE month of the subscription, in addition to a regular 30-day trial. 4.    Result: you help both your friend and Wrike. The good deeds will return in the form of the friend's appreciation and new features from Wrike. Thank you for spreading the word about Wrike!

Where work gets done
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Where work gets done

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Meet Wrike Analyze: Bringing Business Intelligence Into Wrike
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Meet Wrike Analyze: Bringing Business Intelligence Into Wrike

What if there was a reporting option as powerful as a BI tool but more accessible to business users and already built into your collaborative work management software? Meet Wrike Analyze: advanced reports and analytics easily accessible within Wrike. Read to learn more of its features!

Presenting: the New Wrike Dublin Office
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Presenting: the New Wrike Dublin Office

The new Dublin, Ireland office officially opened today, October 21st, with a fitting celebration involving Minister of State at the Department of Finance Eoghan Murphy TD, our CEO Andrew Filev, and many guests and neighbors from the Dublin tech community.

Our Favorite Highlights From Collaborate Day Two
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Our Favorite Highlights From Collaborate Day Two

In the blink of an eye, Collaborate 2021 is over, and we’re reflecting on a dynamic event jam-packed with insightful keynotes, fascinating roundtable discussions, and engaging executive panels.  We loved having you with us at the event, chatting with you at our virtual booths, and seeing your amazing selfies. Day two proved to be an exciting day, and we’re taking the time to reminisce on our favorite moments.  How we can become collaborative powerhouses  One of our favorite sessions of the entire event was from leadership expert Rob Cross on the different ways collaboration supports outstanding teams. With twenty years of research from over 300 organizations under his belt, we were all ears for Rob’s insight into what makes a team successful.  We were surprised (and a little shocked) to see how and why teams are breaking down. With real-life examples of teams cracking under pressure, there was plenty of fascinating insight into how to avoid these common blockers in your own organization.  How very different teams manage the creative process  It was amazing to witness some of the best creative minds in the business — like Nickelodeon and Monumental Sports — share their perspectives on the complexities of today’s work environment and what the best in class are doing to accomplish more with less. Hosted by Esther Flammer, Wrike’s Head of Marketing at Citrix, these creative forces discussed everything from the biggest challenges of maintaining creativity and productivity in digital, remote, and hybrid environments to using technology to increase efficiencies and create work-life balance in the modern workplace. We don’t know about you, but this is one we’ll definitely be watching back.  Bringing teams together with collaborative work management We loved hearing Sherrie Besecker, Digital Program Manager at Syneos Health, speak about how they bring together thousands of employees into one platform to connect, communicate, and work together in real time.  With hundreds of hours of lost time saved every year, Sherrie showed us how her company uses collaborative work management to manage critical, sensitive, end-to-end workflows that guarantee a great outcome for both internal and external stakeholders. Welcoming you all to Collaborate  Our favorite part of Collaborate 2021 was seeing all our attendees engaging with the platform, the sessions, and our virtual booths. You were the true highlight of the event!  We can’t wait to bring you to our next work management conference (hopefully, in person!), but in the meantime, you’re welcome to watch Collaborate 2021 back with our on-demand sessions. Whether you were there in real time and want to re-watch something or you couldn’t make the live event, head here for access to Collaborate On-Demand.  See you next year!

Say Hello To Wrike for Adobe XD: Speed Up Creative Production
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Say Hello To Wrike for Adobe XD: Speed Up Creative Production

Wrike is excited to announce our latest collaboration with Adobe: Wrike for Adobe XD. Read on to learn more about how this plugin can transform your creative processes.

“Win a Book!” Series: the Collaboration Economy (Review of “Wikinomics”)
Project Management 5 min read

“Win a Book!” Series: the Collaboration Economy (Review of “Wikinomics”)

" series with it. The second reason is that this book is a perfect way to start your Enterprise 2.0 journey, as it explains the transformation of the business environment by Web 2.0 technologies in very plain terms. The main goal of “Wikinomics” is to draw your attention to the processes that take place and trends that emerge in the present economy. Web 2.0 is how companies innovate, build relationships, market and compete. More and more businesses are harnessing the power of collective intelligence with the help of “weapons of mass collaboration,” such as blogs, wikis, tags, social networks, etc.  This helps them to get closer to their customers, drive performance, implement service improvements, create new products and more. The objective of the authors is also to prove that this new way of doing business actually has many more benefits than risks. By providing readers with numerous examples, the authors, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, roll out facts that should not be missed by a company that wants to thrive in the new environment, called “Wikinomics”: •    Being open and transparent for your customers and partners pays off, as it brings trust to a new higher level. •    Peering with your customers boosts production of new and improved products and services. •    Sharing some basic intellectual property helps companies bring products to market more quickly. •    Acting globally is essential because global alliances, human capital marketplaces, and peer production communities will provide access to new markets, ideas and technologies. Tapscott’s call to companies is to adapt, and quickly – the changes are here to stay and will continue to unfold as time progresses. The book also describes a series of business ideas or approaches that are at the root of rapid, collective change. My favorites are: •    Peer production, driven by “Peer Pioneers," the people who brought us open source software and Wikipedia while demonstrating that thousands of dispersed volunteers can create fast, fluid and innovative projects that outperform those of the largest and best-financed enterprises. •    Ideagoras – websites or “marketplaces” where businesses can post their R&D needs to the masses and reward the problem-solvers, or offer up their unused inventions that would otherwise lie undeveloped and in secret. These emergent marketplaces for ideas, inventions, and uniquely qualified minds enables companies like P&G to tap global pools of highly skilled talent more than 10 times the size of its own workforce. •    Prosumers — encouraging/supporting customers who participate in the creation and modification of the product, adding new features or offering uses that your company would have never thought of on its own. I referred to this idea in one of my previous posts “Your Customers Can Help You in Crisis,” and gave an example from my personal experience with developing our project management software, Wrike. While building Wrike, we greatly rely on our users’ requests, suggestions and ideas. It helps us make the product better. •    Platforms for Participation — opening up your technology to allow others to create or even profit from its use, which may add to your bottom line and/or strengthen your brand. •    Wiki Workplace, a new corporate collaborative environment that helps break information silos within an organization and connects internal teams. This idea is the closest of all to Project Management 2.0’s general concept: organizing corporate collaboration in a system that lets employees contribute and modify content in a freeform manner, so that structures (plans, schedules and other related project data) emerge over time. The book itself is a great example of collaborative production. It is an Anglo-Canadian team effort. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams were separated by the Atlantic Ocean when they wrote the book. These transatlantic roots give “Wikinomics” depth and interest, with numerous case studies from both continents. In addition, one of the chapters in the book was open for edits from its readers for quite a while. The authors work for the same consulting firm, New Paradigm, which marks the book as a client-development project, - but it is none the worse for that. Indeed, the commercial resources mean it is well-researched, well-written and edited with an eye to its sales role. The book is written in easy-to-understand language and makes a pleasant and interesting reading, as it contains dozens of real life wars stories from companies like IBM, P&G, BMW and Boeing. Of course, some of these examples and stories may not be brand new to you, if you read the blogosphere daily. However, while reading them in “Wikinomics,” you get another chance to analyze them and see whether they may be applicable to your own business. One of the best things about “Wikinomics” is the website it spawned, where a blog about collaboration and aspects of organizational change is an addendum more vibrant than the actual book. Though there are some questionable ideas in the book (for example, with all due respect, I doubt that “the participation revolution” will immediately “lift millions of people out of poverty”), “Wikinomics” is definitely worth your attention. “Wikinomics” is an important book for any company or business person trying to understand how to thrive in an age where traditional top-down, command-and-control structures are being challenged. Mass collaboration may sound like a buzz word, but as some have already found out (look for an example in the book), ignoring it could leave you burned.  So to those of you who haven’t yet read the book, I strongly recommend it. Those who have read “Wikinomics,” please jump to the comments section and tell us your impressions of the book. By the way, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” is the first book to be given away during the “Project Management 2.0 Books Giveaway”! The author of the best comment to this post will get “Wikinomics” for FREE! Update: The book went to Laura, who commented on this post on Thursday, October 22, 2009. Congratulations, Laura! Hope your innovations journey will be successful!

The Best Moments From Collaborate 2021 Day One
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The Best Moments From Collaborate 2021 Day One

At last, the big event is in full swing! We finally opened the virtual Collaborate doors today to thousands of work management enthusiasts for an exciting first day.  We welcomed attendees to our digital conference platform, where they could join our mainstage sessions, visit virtual booths, hop into breakout sessions, attend tailored roundtable discussions, and of course, take selfies in our virtual photo booth.  While we prepare for day two, we’re taking a quick breather and reflecting on our favorite parts of day one of Collaborate.  The four “shocks" reshaping the future of work  Everyone’s talking about the future of work, digital transformation, and reshaping the modern workplace. But what does all this mean in practice? We’re one step closer to understanding what continuous reinvention means after guest speaker J.P. Gownder’s fascinating talk on using research to predict the future of work. As Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, it’s safe to say that Gownder knows a thing or two about what’s going on in the workplace. He identified the four shocks influencing the workplace (systemic risk, automation, workforce data, and employee power) and how companies can mitigate threats and utilize opportunities.  How Walmart Canada gets things done  Nothing is more impressive than witnessing teams overhaul their operations to become lean, agile operational machines. And that’s precisely what Francis Lalonde, VP of Transportation at Walmart Canada, demonstrated during an engaging executive panel featuring Karina Fernandez, Chief Information Officer of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), and Amir Younes, Vice President of Client Success, Wrike, a Citrix company.  We learned how Walmart Canada uses collaborative work management to strip complexity and set new standards for operations, collaboration, and communication for the entire North American transportation business. One thing for sure, we can all take a page out of their book!  Tackling the “dark matter” of work  We're not making an obscure sci-fi reference here, we promise. We’re talking about the exciting opening keynote from Andrew Filev, SVP and Wrike GM at Citrix, on the “dark matter” of work — a fitting metaphor for illustrating the newfound complexity of the modern workplace.  Andrew says during his session that: “The European Council for Nuclear Research believes that we only see about 5% of all matter in the universe. Yet, the other 95% still exerts its gravitational force on the universe.”  “I draw this parallel for our modern work environments. Most of the information related to work travels outside of the visible space of our system of records and instead lives in the dark matter of instant messages and video calls. This makes work difficult to deliver, and even harder to predict and scale.”  Andrew discusses how teams can tackle this “dark matter” and implement systems to bring all work into the light. Let’s just say we’re on board!  Innovations in work management  There’s never been a better time for organizations to adopt new technologies and cloud platforms to support hybrid workforces.  On day one of Collaborate, our Wrike product leader Alexey Korotich presented on the myriad of exciting new features and innovations in the work management space. Our favorite launch might be Wrike for Goal Management, specifically designed to enhance visibility for hybrid and distributed teams.  Head over to our Collaborate product announcement blog to learn about the exciting innovations and features announced at this year’s event.  Showcasing something for everyone  While we loved the mainstage presentations, it was great to see attendees jump into our breakout sessions and roundtable discussions, each tailored to different industries from marketing and creatives to IT, professional services, and healthcare.  We can’t wait to bring you even more exciting content on day two.

How to better organize projects and events in Wrike
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How to better organize projects and events in Wrike

We designed Wrike to be easily customizable. Often we receive messages from our users who say that the product is awesome, so our efforts are appreciated, and we are moving in the right direction. We are sure that you love things that are able to meet your unique needs. However, when you have a blank sheet and a network of tasks in mind, it might be hard to organize it effectively from the very beginning. What is great, in Wrike, you can start with several tasks and make the ground hierarchy around them. You can also have multiple hierarchies for the same project, slicing in terms of client, product, process, etc. Your project organization can grow organically and adapt to changes and new reporting requirements. Here are some tips on how to start planning in Wrike. General suggestions Your greatest benefit is that you don’t need to determine the full plan from the very beginning. You can start with a very simple plan and then gradually advance it. At first, you can keep your tasks in a list in “My Folders”. If a task requires collaboration, you share it with your associates. They will access and contribute to the task from their own workspaces. When you find yourself creating many tasks related to a certain subject or a particular team, create a folder and include these tasks there. Currently, you can do this by including necessary tasks in folders one by one. This way, you don’t miss or skip any task. Very soon we’ll make this process even more convenient for you and release drag-and-drop functionality. When this topic is also full of diverse tasks, you can create subfolders. Vice versa, you can move the existing folder level down and convert it into the subfolder. This can be useful when your areas of responsibility grow and you want to join several folders into one parent folder. We have prepared some examples of how you can organize your plans in Wrike. Let's start from projects and events. Organizing projects and events Then you can extend your plan with additional details, such as promotion channels and so on. You create subfolders for them, so you have a well-structured plan that consists of lists of related, actionable items. You can share the entire event plan with your team to give them the whole picture of the project status. You can also separately share every part of the plan with its responsible party only, your partners and relevant contractors. With project status update examples, you can see how team transparency can contribute to your project's success, with regular updates and reports ready for you in Wrike. ____ You might be also interested in How to organize work of departments, How to customize statuses,  How to organize goals and milestones, How to organize client projects in Wrike.

Every Startup Needs a Market: The Wrike Story
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Every Startup Needs a Market: The Wrike Story

Every business needs to understand its market before it builds its products. Startups must provide a solution that no one else is providing, to ease a pain point that is real and relevant. Ideally the solution is so meaningful that customers fall all over themselves to pay for it. In an April 2014 Inc.com article, digital product strategist Neil Cabage named this the number one criterion that every new startup must consider. But how? This is where professional market research comes in to help you figure out if there is a real market need for your product or service. And while access to research information may not come cheap, there are other ways to get a pulse on your audience, such as conducting informal surveys and polls. The alternative is failure. If a business doesn't have a market, or doesn't know who it will be marketing to, it will flounder trying to find an audience. If they find one in time, luck is on their side. If not, they will likely close their doors. Answering the Need for an Efficient Collaboration Tool Let's take the example of our own company. When Wrike started out as a small side project of CEO Andrew Filev's, it had a built-in market already: itself. From a recent profile article on Forbes: "We started as a collaboration and project-management vendor and then as we were working on managing our clients’ projects, we realized the need for something bigger. We needed a tool to help us collaborate better. So we created Wrike to solve our own problem,” says Filev. The great thing was, the need for a more efficient collaboration platform wasn't just specific to Wrike and its initial customers. It was, and still is, a common enough problem among fast-moving companies, so much so that customers actually raise their hands to get onboard. Again, from the Forbes article: Most of Wrike’s customers come through word-of-mouth and online. They don’t have to cold-call businesses.  And while they have a tiered subscription model to fit any budget, most of Wrike’s customers come straight to their Professional or Enterprise Plans because they already have experienced the pain that comes with project management and are ready to try new tools to make them more effective and efficient. If your startup identifies a market need, and can provide a solution that solves that problem, you're one step closer to success. The only thing missing is: get that product out ASAP! Read the full Forbes article here: Andrew Filev's Wrike Wants to Bring Project Management and Collaboration to the Masses Image credits: "Customer" by 10ch on Flickr.

Meet me at Cloud Ave
Project Management 3 min read

Meet me at Cloud Ave

on the emerging trends in the development of business software, SaaS and collaboration. This “humble blogger,” as he calls himself, moderated the Project Management 2.0 panel at the Office 2.0 Conference this year. Now Zoli is working on a new blog – CloudAve.com. This blog is a joint effort of Zoli and Ben Kepes, the founding editor of Diversity. Ben is an expert in SaaS, social media and user-centric design. Both Zoli and Ben are evangelists for cloud computing, hence the focus of the blog. I was invited to contribute my ideas to this remarkable resource. The result is my article, “Project Management 2.0: Catalyzing Changes in Project Management.” I encourage you to post your thoughts here and at CloudAve.com. I’ll be glad to continue the discussion.

Latest Twitter News about Wrike
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Latest Twitter News about Wrike

wrike Netbook giveaway went to Jürgen Oschadleus - here at PMI NA Congress all the way from Australia. Congrats! #pminac  https://twitpic.com/leb2s varjuluceno Check out Wrike - helps bad project managers become good ones https://www.wrike.com/ bradruben @andrewsthoughts Can users of @Wrike win the Netbook! And can we do it remotely! We love your product! at #pminac andrewsthoughts RT @wrike Come to our booth for the netbook giveaway today! 2pm, booth #933.  #pminac https://twitpic.com/ldgsk nderyogi Project Management Software, Wrike.com, Is Now in Spanish! https://bit.ly/bg8fl AliceCWilson Wrike Interface in Spanish: RT @Online Project Management: Wrike Product Blog: Announcements.https://retwt.me/QlOg jimboot @macangel  We have merlin but  it is overkill for what we need. Wrike has been sugstd by biz coach smallbizasst small business cool tool of the week: https://www.wrike.com/ CollabCloud Project Management Software-as-a-Service Wrike.com Launches Spanish Version - Newswire Today (press release) https://bit.ly/3D1Rri karencurrier @carywood the project management peeps I follow tweet about Wrike for managing projects. philrj @greywolfnz Agreed. I also just discovered Wrike, which may be the solution for my email-focused team. The integration is quite impressive. KayWais Going to the PMI North American Congress? I am. Win a netbook from Wrike https://bit.ly/18Kvqp corneliusficht How easy is your PM software? As easy as using email? Try Wrike & let email be the tool of choice https://bit.ly/c3Tb4 Do you have any thoughts about Wrike you want to share? Go ahead and do it now!

And the Free Netbook from Wrike Goes to…
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And the Free Netbook from Wrike Goes to…

Jürgen came all the way from Australia to give a speech on the role of communications and leadership in project management. We bet he didn’t expect to get a free netbook as a pleasant side benefit. The winner of the drawing held by Wrike is a passionate project management innovator and an advocate of a new management approach focused on conversational leadership. He travels a lot, bringing his knowledge, experience and insight to global audiences. No doubt that Wrike’s prize will be a useful addition to his traveler’s tech kit. We’d also like to thank all the participants for taking part in our giveaway. We hope to see  you all next year at the PMI Global Congress 2010!

90-60-90 represents ideal developers
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90-60-90 represents ideal developers

The Wrike development team has been enjoying their 90-60-90... hours per week! That was "the work schedule to complete the beta of the best collaborative planning application". We decided to mark off the release of the beta version. Surely, the developers won’t forget this hot time soon, but the T-shirt reminds them to be proud of themselves once more.

Elements Of Project Leadership
Collaboration 3 min read

Elements Of Project Leadership

As a Project leader you are dumped in an organization you have never seen before. You get people assigned you don’t know. The organization prescribes methods and tools you don’t like. And of course, there are a gazillion of unwritten rules. Welcome to your project life. You run on partial Information, partial Influence and partial capability. But how do you actually run a project under these circumstances? Answer: Project Leadership. The elements of (my version of) Project Leadership are: Goals and Means on individual, project and organizational level Alignment of goals and means on all levels by communication Goals A project has a goal, an objective. This is part of the larger context of the goals of the organization. Individuals have goals, ambitions, interests. If peoples goals are met, they work happy; if not, they don’t. Job for the Project leader is to align the goals on all levels. Keep on tweaking and adjusting. Make sure everyone understands. Make sure they are all in balance. Means Means are the strategies to reach the goal. This is the set of rituals, artifacts and values shared among the group, the organization and individual. The culture. The culture can be used to create a strong group; it can be in conflict with the dominant structure. Job for the Project leader is to align the means on all levels for maximal effectiveness. Balancing deviance with compliance. Making sure there are rules of engagement the entire team uses. Communication You think that if you are dropped into foreign territory like this, you would get a lot of equipment. Sorry. You get your Swiss Army knife: communication. But in the end, that was all MacGyver needed. About the Author Bas de Baar discusses Project Management in a global, mobile, virtual and multi-cultural world through his popular blog and video podcast “The Project Shrink”. With over a decade spent in the trenches as Software Project Manager within the publishing, financial and public sector, running multi-national teams, he has a lot to talk about. Bas holds a masters degree in Business Informatics and lives with his wife in The Netherlands. He is author of the book “Surprise! Now You’re a Software Project Manager” and is a member of PMI’s New Media Council.

Inspiration from Twitter
Productivity 3 min read

Inspiration from Twitter

megvarleykeller LOVE project management cloud tool Wrike, esp their customer service team--thanks @wrike for such a quick response! financialrunner Does your financial plan include Gannt Charts? I am going to start adding them to mine. I am testing out Wrike. SusanSerraCKD I just realized that it's 11:40 pm and I just tweeted about project management system @wrike. It must be love...yeesh! ;) SusanSerraCKD Need a project management system? Here are some thoughts on @wrike and more: https://bit.ly/cabmG5  biztechday Reviewing Demo App from @wrike Wrike is award-winning project management software that does dozens of routine jobs that put u in control#BTD jacobusvaneeden How do you say Wrike? RT @memeburn 5 online tools to boost your company’s productivity https://t.co/B0A7bDA designkitchensa This is the best project management suite I have seen. Don't spend thousands on MS Project. See: https://ow.ly/2k8Z3 DanLuxenberg @chrisbrogan Check out Wrike (wrike.com). You can even update your project via email. tremblestudio @abroadabroadeh Try wrike.com :) WrikeFan A slick Gantt, e-mail intergration, and instant notifications. Kill clutter, save time. It's Wrike! Free Trial Here: https://bit.ly/bW45oY It’s also been great to see our international customers actively spread the word about Wrike. Thank you, guys! Here are a few posts in French, German and Spanish: br1o Wrike : un nouveau site de gestion de projets en ligne pour les managers et leur équipe [en] https://j.mp/b9ZrnW mgrudl @joebertl Überblick über paralell laufende Projekte sind im Wrike besser gelöst. Ich zeigst dir morgen. takarina tool für ein effizientes projekt management https://www.wrike.com obrerodelarte Probando el workspace de www.wrike.com.... en el encontre algo de Gantt If you want to be the first to know our hot news, follow @wrike on Twitter! And don’t hesitate to tweet about Wrike to the world.