Andolasoft Saves 43% of Digital Marketing Efforts with Orangescrum

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 plan at least a month in advance to maintain consistency in terms of their messaging, frequency and publishing across the right mediums. 

This also brings to focus on the need of extreme collaboration and synchronization among the product engineering, sales, customer success and marketing teams.

In this blog we will explore how Andolasoft Inc. successfully used Orangescrum project management tool to optimize their digital marketing efforts for better results.

Andolasoft Inc. is a California based product and development agency with specialization in IT Consulting, Enterprise Software Solutions, web and mobile app development across a very broad technology spectrum. 

Chaos and Growth sound almost synonymous when companies are on a growth path. When there is growth it is across the spectrum: business, customer base, expansion in new geographies, hiring, product development with more customer queries & increased support. 

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Are Team Collaboration Tools Over Rated

The very need for having a “team” or groups of employees in a company is testimony to the fact that the “I” cannot achieve what the “We” can.  Rightfully so, team collaboration is the corner stone 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 plan to the smallest of chunk possible and deploy the best of processes and tools to track each aspect of our project. 

However, the success of the plan primarily boils down to the team executing it.

We all deploy the most fancy of tools and processes at our workplace but how much of it do we bae into our plans. 

Have you seen a project plan with any mention of the so called collaboration factor?

The point being, it is an unspoken, unwritten assumption by all of us. Because we know we cannot go far without it. 

The question now becomes, how effective are we in enabling collaboration at the workplace?

Let us take cognizance of the contributions project management collaboration makes to the success of a project.

Projects are executed by the “Project Team”

To have the individual members of the project work as a team, we need to ensure they first stay as one.

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team." – Reid Hoffman

What should be some of the parameters to look for in a collaborative workplace?

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Orangescrum Happy Holidays Offer

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.

This is a limited period holiday’s offers; grab it now and get advantages in the New Year.

Also, our cloud (SaaS) users can save 10% on the annual subscription & 5% off on the monthly subscription (offer is not applicable for startup plan).

How to get this offer?

Our Open source or community users can navigate to our Marketplace. Select & add the add-ons to the cart to checkout. Flat 30% off is already discounted on each add-on or combo packages. No coupon is required.


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The Future of Project Management

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 project is all about?” would never be the same from the people working on them. Each had his own interpretation.

Not that it doesn’t happen today, but on a much diminished scale. 

The point is, as everything else, project management today too has evolved a lot and for the better.

It has become better for the project managers, the project team, stakeholders and the business overall. 

Primarily because, Project Management today is more outcomes focused than ever before!

How did the shift happen?

Disruptive Digital Transformation has brought about a sea change in the way we operate today. Teams across the globe are connected in real time with the help of more and more communication platforms. 

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How to Write A Proper Project Management Plan

 

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 frustration. 

Project Management Institute, for example, mentioned poor planning countless times in this guide to the most pressing issues impacting the performance of projects.

Also, the organization mentioned that a lot of problems during project implementation occur because of a lack of a proper management plan. Wellingtone agrees, as their The State of Project Management Survey 2018 found a lack of planning skills to be in the top 3 of project management challenges.

So what does all of this impact the creation of a project management plan? Read on. 

The Most Common Shortcomings of Project Management Plans

In the above-mentioned guide, Project Management Institute highlighted the following errors made with project management plans:
 

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Product Update – Orangescrum Open Source V1.8.0 Released

It gives us immense pleasure to announce the latest release of the Orangescrum Open Source base code.

Orangescrum Open source edition offers simple yet highly effective project and task management absolutely free for its users. You can create unlimited projects, milestones and tasks to collaborate among your teams. 

Release Summary

The release consists of code & UI/UX improvements, bug fixes and deprecation issues fixes.

The best thing about this release among others is the ability to directly invite/add users to Orangescrum without the SMTP setup. It saves you time and hassle of setting up email configuration to get your team on-board. 

How to add users in the Orangescrum V1.8.0?

 Click on “Add User” on the User list page. The revised pop-up has an additional field for “password”.

The admin can set a password of his choice and once he has successfully added the user, he can share the email id and password with the user to login.

The user can login to the tool and change password if he wishes to. 

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