Tech Musing Extra Credit: Project Management

Project Management Software: Wrike

This article discusses about how the project management software, Wrike, has developed and its exponential growth making it more effective and efficient. Wrike, founded by Russian born entrepreneur, Andrew Filev, in 2006, is a platform for real time work management and collaboration that helps to make day-to-day work easier, more transparent and efficient for thousands of companies. Around 6,000 paid customers in over 108 countries already enjoyed it cool features and advantages. It also raised $10 million in venture capital funding from prominent investors and their customers include teams from Google, Stanford, and eBay. Filev says, the company started as a collaboration and project management vendor and then as the company 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. Wrike accelerate the growth plan and continue to innovate. Many companies like Google, Hawaiian Airlines and PayPal have already use the platform because it they already have experienced the pain that comes with project management from other software.

Relevance to MIS 441

This article is relevant to our class project and for other project management project because it provides an alternative tool to MS Project for many purposes.  Its role for project management techniques is to implement projects successfully and establish in areas such as the planning and control of time, cost and quality. Its useful features are

-        Task management

-        Calendar integrations with Outlook, Google and iCalendar

-        Assigning members to the task

-        Discussions

-        Real time activity stream

-        Gantt Chart

-        Performance Chart

-        Time tracking

-        Progress report

-        File sharing and editing

Importance as an MIS student

For the MIS student, Wrike, is useful tool for managing their entire project. It is an effective way for managing multiple tasks and sub tasks for multiple projects. It is widely use for small teams members like in our MIS class. You can sync your calendars, tasks, and project milestones through integrations with Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar, and iCalendar. Wrike also offers a range of other 3rd party integrations, including Excel, Word, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and Gmail. Wrike’s iPhone and Android apps mean that everyone associated with a project can stay in constant communication, regardless of whether they are in traveling or permanently based in different offices and time zones which is useful when student are out for spring break during the semester. It would be easier for MIS student when they have experience about this kind of tools to get the jobs in industries and tech companies like this.

Article link:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2014/10/15/andrew-filevs-wrike-wants-to-bring-project-management-and-collaboration-to-the-masses/#54e415e5282e