Managing a remote team poses some unique challenges, especially if you are doing it for the first time. Working with a distributed team and managing projects at the same time can make the process tense. Team motivation is the driving force behind productivity and the success of your projects. Here, project managers play a pivotal role in inspiring and maintaining the motivation of the remote team
Resource Allocation is making that grand plan on how to rally your troops behind a common goal. It is about strategic planning to identify the skills required, the number of resources required for those specific skills at what intervals, and for how long. Simply put, it is end-to-end resource management allowing you to assess your resources’ availability and put them to good use. As Wikipedia says
Google has had Google Tasks up its sleeve for quite a while and eventually making it an integral part of the G-Suite finally in mid-2018. Google Tasks is the most intuitive and simplest way of organizing yourself. You are probably one among the more than a billion that use Gmail and getting a neat task manager feature embedded with your most used app is a huge plus. One doesn’t have to worry about
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. Task Management has come a long way since the days of simple to do lists, excel sheets and notepad che
Ohh how we miss the times when starting a business was a piece of cake! You decide on a product, invest the money, advertise, and then you sell. And, the products sold like hotcakes. Well, not all of them, but that was the trend. This is how a layman sees business. And we admit it was easy, but those days are behind us. Having a solid product isn’t good enough, nor is having a hard-working team. N
There is an increasing need for businesses to be agile and deliver results faster. Large organizations no longer have the luxury of time as during the initial days of the dotcom bubble. Planning & execution have to go together with quick visible results for all initiatives. Hitting the ground running is the need of the hour. The good thing is, enterprises understand that and have taken quite a
Technology has made it possible to organize projects without regard for geography. Organizations large and small have added remote projects to their toolbox. Nimble technology companies are opting for a fully remote workforce, while multinational corporations are putting together talented management teams that span two or more continents. Remote team management has unique challenges that can cause
Project Management and challenges go hand in hand. No matter what you do they are just inseparable and joint at the hips! Pickup any project from your experience and you will find not a single project that did not have challenges written all over it. Right from the inception to closure all the way! We are an advanced breed of technocrats, project management gurus and executive ninjas. Yet fail to
Regardless of what kind of business you are running or industry you are in, the only thing that is certain is that nothing is for certain. In other words, change is the only constant thing, and the world of project management is no exception. Project management is one of the most dynamic fields, and in order to keep up, you need to stay on top of all the current trends and keep an eye on some futu
Successful project management is almost impossible if you are not able to accumulate and administer sufficient resources. This is why resource management plays such a major role in modern businesses & inspiring entrepreneurs to create new ways of handling professional duties. Business Dictionary says, resource management is simply the process of using a company’s resources in the most efficien
Currently, project management software drives most of projects. This has been the most useful method for many years, though recently, blockchain technology has developed to the point of revolutionizing the efficiency of this process. Promising research highly suggests that blockchain technology has a lot of potential in project management. Characteristics of Blockchain Technology Amazingly, the bl
Currently, project management software drives most of projects. This has been the most useful method for many years, though recently, blockchain technology has developed to the point of revolutionizing the efficiency of this process. Promising research highly suggests that blockchain technology has a lot of potential in project management. Characteristics of Blockchain Technology Amazingly, the bl
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Project Management are being discussed together for a while now. Rather seriously! There is anxiety and excitement in almost equal measures among professionals across the globe. What makes Artificial Intelligence (AI) so relevant in Project Management? The answer is straight forward and lies in the very definition of AI and Machine Learning (ML). Let us take a look
We are delighted to announce that starting today Orangescrum provides two-way integration with GitHub. With this release, you can create, collaborate and manage all your GitHub issues directly from Orangescrum or Github instantly. This integration is fruitful for the IT and product development teams who use Github to share or collaborate code and monitor code issues. Most developers, IT teams and
Before we start discussing the stages of project management, let’s have a brief look at what project management actually is and why is it that important. Project management is termed as an approach that involves the use of numerous principles, methodologies, and guidelines, which are developed to lead a project from its beginning phase heading towards the ending phase. Project management has a lot
Businesses whether small, medium or large are run by their resources. We all know it. You may have the best ideas and ground breaking technology at your disposal, but nothing moves unless your people (teams) follow, adopt & execute them. Also, there has been a rising uproar and unparalleled focus on resource management in the recent years. Why has it is become so crucial to business success su
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