Why Organizations Need Enterprise Project Management Software

There is an increasing need for enterprises 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 few concrete steps in 

• decentralizing operations
•  reducing administrative overheads
• running initiatives in an iterative manner
• having small teams with specific goals

Well, that’s a good starting point. But how do we ensure all of these work cohesively, with minimum friction and real time visibility of true progress for the executives?

Realizing the true benefits of the above approach needs an enterprise project management software that keeps everyone engaged right from the CXOs to the interns. 

Picking just any enterprise project collaboration tool wouldn’t help. You must ensure direct alignment of the chosen tool with that of your strategic initiatives and benefits. 

And most importantly, one that helps you be agile & not fragile!

A 2018 PMI survey suggests

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How to Solve Top Project Management Challenges

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 prevent these challenges.

Why is it so?

Simple answer – “projects entail multiple moving parts and all of which aren’t under our control.”

Project Management is deployed to ensure

• Achieving the end goal
• Delivering on time
• Deliverables meet the agreed quality
• Expected business value is realized
• All of the above is achieved within the allocated budget

Now how much of it have we been able to achieve? Any guesses on the success rates?

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) report states:

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Orangescrum Enterprise Features – A Comprehensive Guide

Orangescrum Enterprise edition is widely popular as it offers end to end project management capabilities across industries. 

Whether you are a digital & marketing agency, Product Development Company, consulting & professional services firm or an established enterprise, Orangescrum offers all the bells & whistles you need to streamline your operations and successfully deliver your products and services. 

Businesses of all sizes have reported spending way too much time in fire-fighting instead of real productive pursuits.

Basically ending with overworked resources, unhappy customers and employees, loss of face and revenue.

We have compiled a quick list of key problems shared by our customers across industries. Let us take a quick look at the common project management problems.

• Do not have a portfolio view of your projects?
• Time tracking is irregular and not practiced diligently?
• No way to figure out if resources are available for future projects?
• Work breakdown structure is messy?
• Task management isn’t transparent?
• Too many delivery delays?
• Unable to track if resources are utilized productively?
• No visibility to your billable hours?
• High efforts spend on rework and non-billable activities?
• Resources are often overloaded?
• Teams aren’t motivated?
•  Lack of real time progress monitoring?
•  Do not have actionable analytics and reports?

And as we progressed in our journey to help and solve their problems we present to you the key features you need to solve each one of them along with the benefits they offer.

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Benefits of AI Enabled Project Management

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 Project Management so relevant for Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

The answer is straight forward and lies in the very definition of AI and Machine Learning (ML). Let us take a look. 

Artificial Intelligence or AI sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines (or computers) that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving”.

In simpler terms, AI enables machines to learn, think and act like humans. AI uses data, servers and algorithms to train machines for specific actions such as recognizing objects, reasoning, problem solving, planning, and perception.

Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use in order to perform a specific task effectively without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence. 

After careful review of both their definitions, one can safely state that AI and ML help provide deep insights from a huge data source built over time which is often difficult to track by us. 

If you take a further closer look, ML enables identifying patterns and structures within the data and predict outcomes of specific activities. 

Do note that the data is nothing else but “human actions and inputs recorded by various systems during the course of a specific activity or a project”.

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