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Project Management via excel and spreadsheets is not something savvy project managers would do. In the world of artificial intelligence (AI) & big data analytics depending on manual data management is a toxic waste of time and effort. Excel project management becomes too taxing over time and takes the focus away from core project works. You tend to Spend more time to maintain project data Jug

We have spent the most of 2020 adopting to remote work management practices and doing our best to be as productive as possible. Individually as well as a team and the business as a whole. Nerve wracking challenge? Yes for some, not so much for the others. What’s the difference then? Remote project management has put a huge onus on communication, collaboration and productivity. The business dynamic

Projects management is crucial thing to achieving the company’s ultimate goal – “to increase their project teams’ performance rapidly. By following the best project management practices, you can increase your project team’s productivity, get maximum ROI and be more profitable as a business. No need for project managers, if anyone knew what to do, when to do, and how to do exactly. But, in  m

Technology has been expanding disruptively in more ways than one. Disruptive because they challenge the status quo and set the new normal. Be it exceptional social and collaboration tools like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or remote project management tools such as Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Webex, Microsoft Teams. All of the examples above changes the way “we the people” interact! Be it

Important Massage to our Open-source, Enterprise & Add-on Users We discontinued the Add-on Selling from Nov 1, 2021 and the Add-on Support will be discontinued from Feb, 2022. Any user want to use our On-Premise Solution are recommended to migrate into Orangescrum Self-Hosted plan. Cost Management is one of the key knowledge areas of project management professional (PMP) training an

“Work-life balance is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself.”– Matthew Kelly, Author Live your life more to work better and faster, or work more to live a better life? It’s often a challenging question that many of you might be asking yourselves. For some of you, work gets over with the end of a working day, but for still a few, work

Every business’ ultimate goal is to deliver the project successfully in time with total alignment to the overall program vision and within the agreed cost and quality parameters. Irrespective of a project manager’s best efforts and planning, projects do get delayed, go off-track from a business perspective or do not produce desired results in the first few milestones. Research indicates that only

Work smarter, not harder – Carl Barks More or less you all know and agree with the above quote. Isn’t it? Still, many of us rant about the same old thing “I have no time” when asked to take some time for something of their daily work. This is because they have a problem with time management or prioritizing things. However, it’s wrong to make an excuse of time lack, where poor planning

Hey Orangescrum’ers, September product update is here. We are pleased announce two significant feature resource and task management releases for our customers. Optimizing team performance, productivity and enabling highly coordinated task management is at the core of Orangescrum project management tool. Robust resource management features such as resource availability, allocation and utilization

Now the professional and personal world is a fast-paced well-oiled machine that will never stop for anyone. And every one of us wants to make their work-day more efficient and more productive, and that will be possible by using time management strategies. Time management strategies help to handle work that you’ve been assigned to within the time you have. Working as a project manager, you must be

Milestone planning is a direct contributor to successful enterprise project management. Big or small, all projects must be duly broken down into relevant milestones for proper planned vs accomplished goals tracking. It is not just about the project progress or completing the project. There is more to it than what meets the eye. Milestone planning is the project manager’s way of keeping the stakeho

Kanban boards are a great gift from Toyota to the manufacturing, operations & management teams across industries. Because of its proven benefits standing the test of time, Kanban board have become mainstream for all project management tools; Orangescrum included! Kanban is all about eliminating waste, improving quality, reducing cycle times thereby the overall go to market time of a product, s

We are pretty clear that time estimation is the most important factor in project management. Project timeline is efficient means to define a definite start and end dates thereby paving way for time-bound execution. Project timelines are the process that tell you what tasks you need to complete and how much time you have to complete them. It helps to find out the actual time and resources we need.

Making sub-task management efficient and effective is one of our main goals at Orangescrum. Easily task breakdown, assignment and making it simple for teams to get to crucial information quickly goes a long way in enhancing the overall project execution. With that in mind we have enhanced the task and sub-task management within Orangescrum with the following additions: Create Sub-tasks from the t

How do I manage all tasks end to end through a remote team? This was a looming concern for every project manager and team leader who were to work with remote teams either for the first time or for extended time periods. Project management involves ensuring transparent task assignments, resource allocation and utilization, real time information exchange, centralized collaboration to prevent chaos.