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Businesses are being run by remote teams due to the Covid-19 outbreak today. And all such organizations whose billing is dependent on time sheets, time tracking is a must. Consulting firms, professional services, marketing and digital agencies all get paid for exchange of skilled labour time. Accurate time tracking is crucial for organizations to build trust and bill their clients with confidence.

While businesses are revisiting their work from home and remote team practices; project managers continue to battle with challenges of running the business with the entire workforce being virtual. Working from home has been an established norm even before the pre-COVID era of 2020! Businesses had a good mix of virtual teams to have access to the best global talent pool there is and to be closest t

As business owners, we need to ask ourselves, what is successful project management and why does it matter? The answers can vary. Successful project management can be defined as structured, scheduled work completed within a timely time frame with the purpose of maximizing resource productivity and controlling the costs of one’s company. The main advantage of having successful project management is

Project management is largely dependent on the successful handling of various project elements like scope, resources, timelines, budget, and delivery. The scope is where all the fun begins, and the ability to break down projects into reasonable milestones and tasks is crucial to its success. Carving a robust work breakdown structure from the project is the most common step performed by all project

You have deployed the right project management tool, have the resources lined up, all the approvals & funding and ready to take-off. The team is excited and everything goes into chaos as the team begins the project execution. Having a project management tool isn’t enough. The idea is to make sure the tool provides you with some of the most critical project management features that enable execu

Project Managers are multi-talented species. They cannot be successful if they are not. Managing a projects involves multiple tangible and intangible aspects such as Leadership Communication Expectation management Stakeholder engagement Keeping teams motivated & focused Be the go-to man for the team Expertise not only as a PM, but end to end understanding of the project Managing timelines, bu

User role management and access control measures prevent unauthorized access to confidential project information. Project information may consist of critical business or client strategy, new product or service launch, financial information, customer information etc. All such information must always be accessed by authorized personnel only in a “must know” and “need to know” basis. Furthermore, too

Kanban and Scrum are two of the most popular agile project management methodologies today. Both of them offer flexibility and have almost universal applicability leading to very high adoption rates. The hallmark of agile project management is the fact that you can “test” an idea, a process before going ahead full steam. Iterative and incremental is what describes agile methodology the best. A typi

Remote teams are the new norm and ensuring they are well supported by a project management software is on top of every project manager’s mind. No wonder, there has been a huge spike in the project management & collaboration software adoption rates in the last 3 months. The whole idea is centered around: Keeping the business functional as usual Setting up an effective remote team Ensuring opti

Having a robust Client Management process is all the more important due to the disruption by COVID-19. Your customers are no exception. And this calls to put steady client management at the center of our business strategy post COVID-19. Understand full well that, not all your customers had the right remote work strategy or were in an industry that could have been less impacted due to the pandemic.

Capturing lessons learnt is an important activity within the Closure phase of project management life cycle. Successful or not, as a project manager you must carry out a detailed lessons learnt process and document them formally. Lessons learnt approach is about shaping the future. As they say, you cannot do all the mistakes to learn from them. You must also learn from other’s mistakes and prevent

Studies suggest that more and more companies use and hire open-source software. The prime motivator is usually the low cost advantage along with getting something ready to deploy and use without committing significant resources to start with. Most development teams prefer an open-source software as: The source code is open, they can easily modify, improve or build on it as what they need. Updates

Project management requires extensive planning & accuracy to meet the stated business goals. Therefore, every project manager should have a project checklist with points for achieving success in project management. Stakeholders & project sponsors are focused on the ROI. It is the dedicated project manager who is tasked with guaranteeing that deliverables meet business objectives, achieving

Remote teams and successful virtual collaboration among them will decide the success of enterprises in the coming years. It is a given. Pick up any comprehensive report around project management software adoption & trends will clearly support this claim. The reasons are highly tactical and the resultant benefits have forced organizations to make virtual collaboration a part of their strategy.

Business Managers, team leads and project owners have a common challenge – boost resource productivity!  It is a challenge in itself and more so when the entire operation is run by remote teams. Intuitive & automated Project reports have proven to be most helpful. Constant check-ins, nagging or too many FaceTime meetings wouldn’t take you very far. You will only end up losing focus from the ke