Wrike makes Project Management social

Online project management service Wrike continues to implement the Project Management 2.0 philosophy (invented by Wrike's founder, Andrew Filev). An updated Wrike version is focused on one of the main Enterprise 2.0 features - Social. And the first Wrike's social feature - is a simple user-friendly interface in the style of popular consumer services. The main Wrike screen now reminds Google Wave - a list of projects, task list and the task pane. Like in Google Wave it features avatars, which allow to identify the author of a task, or who the task is shared with, etc., with just a quick glance at the workspace. Instead of old-way comments taks now contain microblogs with activity streams, which allow not only to discuss the task, but also display automatic updates on any task activities, such as attaching a new file or changing the task status. Thus, you can see the full history for that particular task:



In addition to task microblogs, there are microblogs for projects and team-wide general microblog, showing the general pulse of the company. As well as in Facebook and Twitter you can "follow" streams to monitor specific tasks or projects.



The dashboard now looks like iGoogle. It's built with widgets that you can add/remove and arrange in a custom order. The widgets can show specific task lists or activity streams. You can also create custom widgets.



Another Wrike innovation is Backlog - the list of tasks without a due date. This is a handy tool to collect ideas that can be implemented in future projects.

See also: Top 10 Project Management software