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Staying organized, collaborating well and being efficient is key to project success. Nevertheless, despite our best efforts, projects do go off track & fail at times. A one of instance is understandable. But repeat failures call for deeper introspection of our project management processes, tools and the way execution is run. It is agreed that during the startup phase the key focus is getting o

Among all the recent technologies that made our life easier in innovative ways, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will always be placed high in the rank simply because of the multitude of values it creates for the digital reality and environment we already live in. In more than one way, AI has made our lives easier. One of them is the AI-driven automation that allows completing jobs effortlessly and wi

Customer Experience (CX) & relationship are crucial business drivers. Also, they are the most significant stakeholders of your project management initiatives. On the other hand, internal team management is equally important. And as a business owner you will often find yourself pulled in opposite directions. Striking balance between your customers and delivery teams (PMs, dev & engg. teams,

Project management conferences create an opportunity for project managers to learn new ideas about project management methodology and help to build networks with professional peers. Thus, certified project managers can acquire learning hours or units that are required to maintain their respective certificates by attending project management conferences. Orangescrum team has collected some of the b

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn. Take a moment, think deeply about that statement. Almost all spend their lives searching for ways to earn surplus money, but hardly ever, we think about time and its importance, it’s a limited resource! We all have the same time available that is, 24 hours per day. You can neither store time

Gone are those days, when project management tools & Kanban boards were specific to IT and manufacturing industries only.It has turned into a fundamental need of all organizations. Be it, Healthcare, Marketing, Construction, Product development, engineering or professional services; Project management software is integral to their overall operations. Charles Darwin once said – “The most

Creating project management reports is second nature to project managers. Ever happened to stop by your project manager’s desk? I am sure you would have almost always found him battling with report generation. And if you talk to one, you can hear them fussing over the number of revisions, data massaging, frequency and format changes for same datasets being requested over and over by different stak

Task Management is the vital part of Project Management. Effective task management leads to on-time & within budget project delivery. As a result we can achieve higher customer satisfaction and trust which fuels business growth. Why Effective Task Management is a challenge? According to Wikipedia, “Effective task management requires managing all aspects of a task, including its status, priorit

Project Plans are an essential stepping stone towards building and delivering a successful project. Instead of quantity, the focus is on the qualitative objectives that will be achieved in a timely manner. Project plans are your blue prints that guide your project from concept, execution to delivery. They act as the radar to keep the team focused on the tasks at hand & stick to the project sco

Scrum Master is an important link of the Agile Framework. He is a coach, mentor and facilitator to the Scrum Team. Scrum Master is a crucial role for organizations that want to be able to: Delivery quality products and services Scale their operations & development at will Increase customer engagement Generate consistent value out of the agile framework Although, scrum master isn’t invo

Task management is an integral part of our lives (personal & professional). We start it right from our school days yet we do lag poorly at times and need constant push, support or policies to enforce the practice. Over time, technology replaced our writing pads with a zillion project & task management tools and collaboration platforms to get through our work day. Call it industry best prac

Open-source software refers to a program or application with the source code that is accessible by any user. Using open-source software, in addition to being extremely cost-effective, provides some significant advantages over paid alternatives. With traditional paid software companies, the strategy has been referred to as “security through obscurity,” meaning that since with paid software the code

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. Setting up a Project Management Office has become one of the top priorities for companies in 2022. The

One of the major differences between a successful project and a failed project is project management abilities. Project management leads to better alignment of projects with your business strategy. Organizations can easily identify a hike in ROI, and budget performance with some of the best project management software systems. An open-source project management software solution might be ideal for

Open source project management tools have gained popularity in the recent years. Even then, there are just a handful. The adoption of such tools is yet to reach its full potential primarily due to concerns around their support. Open source technologies have gained significant acceptance in the last few years. Various languages and frameworks such as Angular JS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, PHP, Python,