How Remote Team and Digital Web Agency Boosts their Productivity with Orangescrum

The top priority for top and growing digital agencies is to deliver projects successfully and profitably.

Project Managers and Team leads need to manage their team, deliver products & services and keep track of everything from concept, design, and development to delivery and support.

According to the Project Management Institute, 30% of large-scale Remote and Digital Web Agency projects fail to meet their objectives, most likely because of a lack of proper management and organization. At the same time, 77% of high-performing projects benefited from a project management platform.

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How to use Project Templates in Orangescrum

Project Templates are productive means to structure and execute specific project types.

The basic idea behind project templates is to have a well-defined view, specific status workflow and corresponding task types etc. to make project execution smooth.

Orangescrum project management tool offers comprehensive project template features.

Based on careful review, customer requests and best practices, you can start with the following 8 project templates.

• Simple
• Kanban
• Scrum
• Content Management
• Task Tracking
• Bug Tracking
• Procurement
• Recruitment

Before we move on to the specifics, I would like to give you a quick rundown of project template benefits.

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Project Management in the times of COVID-19

 

Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic as notified by World Health Organization has had a significant impact on businesses the world over. More and more countries are being impacted every day with significant loss of life and business.

It is disheartening to know that over 198,727 cases have been reported globally by worldometer.

Governments are unanimously sealing their borders, curtailing international travel and shutting down all avenues of possible public gathering from malls, food courts, health clubs etc. 

There seems to be 40% physical lockdown across cities with local bodies asking their citizens to stay indoors and avoid outside contact as much as possible.

Needless to say, health and safety comes first and this time at the cost of business too. 

It has become increasingly difficult to conduct and deliver business as usual. More so in the case of manufacturing, production, automobile facilities etc.

As they say, the show must go on!

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8 Tips to Boost Productivity through Team Empowerment

The biggest responsibility of a team leader is to motivate team members and keep their engagement levels high. It’s especially challenging work for the new managers to enhance team collaboration, communication and productivity.

Why should you empower your team?

Team empowerment is all about providing an environment for your teams to thrive. Build a culture where ideas and opinions are shared, discussed and accepted without bias.

Having the freedom to express and the confidence that they will be heard goes a long way in building a healthy team atmosphere.

And the benefits are immense starting from increased accountability, greater sense of ownership and alignment with the shared goal.

Teams tend to be excited about going the extra mile when needed and are forthcoming in their suggestions and offering help to their team members without being asked.

The projects also get an extra burst of motivation and that helps to deliver quality results.

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How to be a Successful Scrum Master with Orangescrum

Agile Scrum Methodology has been rapidly adopted by product development teams, digital and marketing agencies in the last decade or so. 

With it, the need for comprehensive agile project management tools too have gathered steam. 

Starting up with the agile implementation usually looks easy. Teams just think of breaking down their tasks for a week or two and start completing them within the defined timelines and consider all is well. 

Reality tends to be quite different. For one, it is not so much of task breakdown and planning rather an approach and a mind set to deliver quality incrementally. 

And teams struggle for it even today. 

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Common Project Management Mistakes by Startups

Staying organized, collaborating well and being efficient is key to project success.

Nevertheless, despite our best efforts, projects do go off track & fail at times. A one of instance is understandable.

But repeat failures call for deeper introspection of our project management processes, tools and the way execution is run.

It is agreed that during the startup phase the key focus is getting out there in the market, acquiring more and more customers, keeping the lights on & proving yourself to be an unicorn.

And it in this flux, that the common best practices are overlooked and the required rigor around implementation reviews & continuous improvements aren’t performed optimally.

So, what are the common project management mistakes that startups usually commit?

Let’s go through the Infographic to know about some common mistakes

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