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Smart teams globally prefer task management software to achieve high productivity levels. Primarily for the simple reason to make the most out of their workday & stay on top of their key assignments. On the other hand, there is a lot of fuss around distractions at the workplace due to the overuse of digital mediums be it various productivity tools, social media platforms or constant dings of t

Think about how challenging it is to handle multiple projects without using any Project Management Software. Project management software has extremely improved and changed the way project teams work today. The PM features like Gantt chart is best suited for the project manager who likes to plan projects individually, with a need to easily share when needed. Take a look at the benefits of the Gantt

Enterprise agility is at the core of business strategy today. It is not just about profitability or higher revenues. But the idea is to be nimble enough to adopt, adapt & respond to customer needs better & faster than your competition. Organizations globally recognize this non-negotiable aspect of their business. And are more forthcoming in taking the right steps towards agile project mana

The business landscape is an ever-changing game. What works today will not tomorrow. Continuous improvement in almost all aspects of your operations is required to prevent the common business problems most enterprises face today. For every unicorn start-up or success story, there are 100s that bite the dust daily. The entire buzz from over evaluation, mass funding can only sustain so long. Be it M

Businesses have grown mature in their time tracking approaches over the years. Be it customer demand or competition, organizations have moved swiftly on adopting the best possible time management practices. Time management is one of the most sought after skills for success both individually and as a business. The benefits of time tracking are known since time immemorial, yet we struggle to manage

Project Managers are tasked with building elaborate project plans and breaking them down into executable tasks. Project plans are the soul of a project and if not dealt with the required due diligence can wreck the project. No wonder PMI emphasizes a lot on the Initiation and Planning phases. Building project plans and outlining the work breakdown structure into granular actionable tasks requires

Stakeholder management, client engagement and customer satisfaction are an integral part of project delivery. If not more, they are as important as project planning, execution, monitoring, and control. Turning prospects into clients are itself hard let alone engaging and retaining them. To add to it the challenges of the modern work environment of a global audience with the local culture of their

Agile decision-making is an important concept that includes a set of principles and practices for managing and delivering projects; this is especially important in software development. It facilitates collaborative and interactive problem-solving practices in order to adapt to changing circumstances and deliver value to customers efficiently. Moreover, technologies and tools like Orangescrum have

Increasing sprint velocity is often a top priority of scrum masters, product owners, and CEOs. However, higher velocity does not necessarily mean greater productivity. Focusing only on increasing velocity can be damaging to teams. An alternative is to focus on improving sprint velocity. Improving velocity includes building consistency and increasing the quality of work within sprints, as opposed t

Digital Marketing & SEO is an integral part of each company’s strategy to reach out to their customers. More than 60% of the marketing efforts are spent on digital outreach across social media platforms, agency and product listing sites, SEO, content publishing and website optimization. It surely is a time-consuming affair and needs diligent planning & execution. Marketing teams need to pl

The very need for having a “team” or groups of employees in a company is a testimony to the fact that the “I” cannot achieve what the “We” can.  Rightfully so, team collaboration is the cornerstone to help you achieve and excel in a sustainable manner. As leaders, managers, project managers we focus heavily on getting the strategy right, making robust plans with no scope of error, breakdown our pl

Happy Holidays Orangescrummers! Hooray! It’s a festive time! On occasion of Christmas and New Year 2020, we bring the best offers for our Open source and SaaS users. We’re extending an offer for all our open source/ community users a chance to save up to 30% on Solo add-ons, Combo add-ons from today till 6th January 2020, on the occasion of Christmas & New Year. Improve remote collaboration

Project Management we see today is far more evolved than it first started. It is no longer about detailed documents a bunch of them in fact, phases and gates driven with multi-year timelines. Gone are the times when projects meant a fat budget, huge resource allocation probable brought together from across the world to a single office facility. On top of it, the answers to the question – “what the

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been a part of a project that has failed to reach its goals. Well, as someone who’s also actively involved in project planning, I can say that I’ve had my fair share of negative experiences. Even though project failure rates are notoriously difficult to measure and compare, poor planning is without a doubt is in the top five of the most common reasons for

It gives us immense pleasure to announce the latest release of the Orangescrum Open Source base code. Orangescrum Open source edition strengthens the project and task management capabilities for your teams. It allows for inclusive collaboration with unlimited projects, milestones, and tasks to be managed in an utmost transparent and productive manner. Release Summary The release consists of code &