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We have seen a surge in Project Managers and IT Managers engaging with us for a Project Management Solution. And in our efforts to help them achieve their desired outcomes and ease their challenges we found them to be eager to move from spreadsheet management to true project management. As soon as people hear – “Project” they run to open spreadsheets on their computers to start taking notes, makin

The last couple of weeks have been busy, really busy for our product team at Orangescrum. Thanks to our ever-engaged Orangescrum’ers who are ever vocal about our SaaS (Cloud) edition. It is this continuous supply of adrenaline rush that keeps us going. “That’s a good headache for us” as quipped by my Manager. We have reviewed all the feedback and have acted swiftly as ever to give our promoters wh

Hello Orangescrumers! Good news for all of you. We’ve released the Intuitive Project Overview Dashboard for all our SaaS (Cloud) users; a new way of project, task and resource monitoring. How to view the Project Overview page? Once you have created a project, tasks, and allocated resources, you can start monitoring your project status and progress on the “Project Overview” page. To navigate to Pro

A workflow consists of a sequence of actions needed to complete a task or a project. A workflow reflects the working culture of your team or organization or a set process you need to follow for certain activities and projects. Workflow management is all about the setup, performance, and monitoring of a defined sequence of processes and tasks, with the broad goals of increasing productivity, reduci

Hello Orangescrumers! We’re excited to share the progress we made at the beginning of this year and would love to get your feedback! New Navigation for Task View Now navigation to Kanban Board, Task Group and Calendar View of tasks have been made easy. To view Task Group, click on the Task Group tab on the Task list top bar as shown in the screenshot below. Similarly, click on Kanban or Calend

As a Project Manager, you may come across long and complex yet identical projects. It takes a long time to create a complex product workflow, marketing campaign, employee onboarding etc. And creating the same content and workflow over and over again is a cumbersome affair and complete wastage of time and resource. To get away from creating these repeated projects and tasks, we have Project Templat

Time Management is one of the most important skills required to effectively balance your personal and professional life and one of the most critical steps toward success in any industry. Humans, by our very nature, are very impatient and always curious to know how to get as much done as possible in a limited time. Every person has a very limited amount of time – 168 hrs per week. And most of the t

Everyone like using a simple and flexible Mobile App interface to schedule projects, track their time, and stay up-to-date. There are project management tools that come loaded with everything you could ever want to use and there are those that focus on doing just one thing really well. Deciding which tool you need to manage your projects easily takes most of your time and distracts you from the ri

You can import all your existing projects from any other project management tools to Orangescrum by following steps. Before importing your projects, you may ask why you need to import your projects to Orangescrum if you’re not an Orangescrum user! In brief, let me explain what Orangescrum offers to you. For effective and effortless project management, you can do the following with Orangescrum: Pr

Timesheet is an important time management tool for all organizations. Organizations can lose a large part of their revenue if they cannot organize their employees’ time in an effective way! The companies which do not do time and resource management effectively will end up with Failure to monitor employees’ time spend Loss of revenue Failure in delivering projects on time and within budget Unable

In any company, a project is worked upon by teams across departments. It becomes imperative for large companies or complex projects that information is shared, made available on a “need to know basis”. When it comes to project management, it becomes crucial that project leaders invite the right people at the right time. The most important rule for controlling access to users is to provide the leas

Project Management Tools are often divided between their ability to handle the complex nature of the projects. As thousands of professionals are now working with Project Management software, the concept is no longer limited to any predefined functions. As SMEs are redefining their PM processes and moving toward a structured project management approach, the demand for all-in-one PPM solutions is in

Investing in a project management tool is the best thing you can do to your business and team. It is not about having a fancy brand or tool on-board but a platform that is in-sync with your desired business outcomes and gets the work done! Let’s see how our teams typically start their day and go about doing their business from task to task or one project to another, the challenges they face and ho

Running a business efficiently is all about managing resources effectively. And the two such critical resources are – team and time. Resource planning, allocation, and efficient management involve careful planning, analysis, foresight and ability to account for possible risks in terms of rapidly changing business demands and landscape. It is of utmost importance to be aware of the available bandw

Let’s accept it! We are all fascinated with “Multi-tasking”! Shamelessly and Extensively! We take great pride in asserting ourselves as the ever successful multi-tasker (without numbers to back us!). It’s like there is an aura, a certain unexplained charm about the ability to multi-task. And in sharp contrast (in my view), “Multi-tasking is mindless flip-flop across tasks or activities of the day.