Product Update: Enhanced Features for Project Template

Hello, OrangeScrum’ers, we are here with an update for all our SaaS users. Now you can create custom templates with the release of our enhanced Project Template. You can now add Task Groups, Tasks, Subtasks, and Sub-subtasks to define your project templates. Earlier you could just add tasks to a project template.

Project Templates can simplify your projects that are large & complex yet identical. To get away of creating a complex product workflow, marketing campaign, employee on boarding etc. projects repeatedly, we have Project Templates for you.

Project Templates enable you to replicate and reuse the structure and content of existing projects, including Task Groups and task with estimated hours, task type and task priority to speed up new project creation and standardize workflow processes.

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How Can Project Management Help With Content Marketing Struggles

Producing superb content is a challenging task, and it requires a lot of time and energy. But, sometimes content managers and writers lack both, and they still need to keep the process of generating and publishing relevant posts going.

Moreover, the workflow has to be fast and agile. Another issue that characterizes content creation lies in the fact that it’s above all a creative process, and cramming creativity into a streamlined routine can be difficult.

Luckily, project management software can help with all these challenges and help your team come up with some top-notch content and do it without procrastination.  

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OrangeScrum Open Source Update: Free PHPMailer Add-on is now available for SMTP Configuration

Hello OrangeScrumers! Good news for all our Open Source users. We have released a new PHPMailer add-on to simplify your SMTP configuration further.

Email notification is an important feature for any product. From user invites to email reports or any actions within the tool must be notified to users/admins or the owner of the tool.

But to send and receive email notifications, the application needs proper SMTP configuration. OrangeScrum, the Open Source Project Management tool also needs SMTP configuration to send email notifications.

In addition to our earlier SMTP configuration method, we have released the PHPMailer function to configure SMTP in OrangeScrum. This PHPMailer is available as an add-on in our Marketplace. This is completely free and can be used by both existing and new users.

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Why You Should Invest in Project Management Software

Project Management is an integral part of our businesses for one primary reason – it helps convert the business idea into a tangible product or service. One that shapes the future of the company and sets the company for greater success.

First of all Project Management acts as a radar to keep teams on track while they are buzzing with excitement to get projects off the ground and are most likely to overlook critical process aspects.

This basically means inviting scope creep, mismanaging time, cost and quality and thereby putting the company’s reputation at stake.

Hence it is wise to have the right Project Management Software to help us avoid the above pitfalls.

The market is flooded with Project Management Software that helps us align with tradition, agile and lean project management. In addition to these they are also capable of task management, collaboration, communication, time tracking, project planning, resource management, project portfolio management, budget & expense tracking and lot more.


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Product Update: Wiki for Your Projects & Teams, Unlimited Plan and PDF Reports

Hello OrangeScrumers! We’re here with our latest product update.

Last month we’ve released a couple of new and exciting features for our SaaS users. Let’s have a quick glance at those updates below.

1. OrangeScrum Unlimited Pricing Plan

1. Time Log Reports in PDF

1. 24 Hour Time Format

1. New feature: Wiki

OrangeScrum Unlimited Pricing Plan:

For a limited time period, we have launched a special offer for all of our SaaS users. Now you can invite unlimited users to OrangeScrum at only $99/month (when you pay annually). There are no user limits, no project limits neither there any task limit.

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Six Writing Skills Any Project Manager Should Absolutely Have

 Writing usually doesn’t come to mind first when you think about the project manager position. There are so many other things that project managers have to do that writing doesn’t seem like an issue. It’s just something you do to get the job done – it isn’t a job on its own.

However, communication is a big part of a project manager’s job and most of that communication will happen through emails, texts or in any other written form. The quality of the job and the success of the project inherently depend on how clear and understandable what the project manager wrote is.

But writing doesn’t come easy, not even to the professional writers. It takes time, editing and a lot of anxiety on whether the message was conveyed properly. It’s a hard skill to master.

Luckily, the truth is that you don’t really have to master it. No one expects literary perfection from your writing. In fact, if you do a good job, no one will even pay attention to your writing but to what is being said.

You have a simple goal – to be understood. This you can achieve with clarity and brevity – and no literary skill at all.

To achieve this, though, there are a few skills that you, as a project manager, should undoubtedly have. Here is our list:

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