Important Project Management Trends in 2020

In this digital era, the process of project management is changing day-by-day. Rapid improvements have been made to the current project management process backed by technology.

We are able to minimize project fails and maximize the project success with the help of project management software and methodologies.

Similarly 2020, presents many ongoing and upcoming project management trends we must adopt to optimize our existing project management processes.

Let’s take a look at some of the most common and powerful project management  trends businesses are keen to adopt.

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How to Work with Remote Team Challenges Successfully

Businesses are waking up to numerous remote team challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unless you have had some remote work experience or are a fully remote team, running your operations smoothly is a nightmare.

But nothing to worry. Unusual times lead to unusual solutions.

One has to look for solutions that are

• very common & known
• driven by situations (case on case basis)
• result of improvising existing processes

Remote team and project management are at the heart of all remote work management strategy at the moment.

“Think remote, think virtual” is the driving force at the moment. A single silver bullet looked upon by business leaders, entrepreneurs, project managers and team members.

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What Are the Top 7 Project Management Best Practices

Project Managers are asked to watch out for the project management best practices and adopt them continuously. There are always better ways of doing things and ones that worked yesterday may turn irrelevant today.

The constant pressure to complete project after project often leaves very little scope for project managers to synthesize the learnings from past projects.

And also, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with the latest trends, techniques and tips on project management as you are shuffling across multiple projects.

We have come up with some of the most impactful project management tips to get you started.

It is indeed difficult to make a list like this when you are overwhelmed with options and there is so much to say.

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Ways to Manage Your Team Effectively During Social Distancing

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought an unprecedented and radical change in business practices. Most organizations have to shut shop due to the quarantine and social distancing requirements.

On the other hand, the tech oriented and digital businesses are tasked with 100% remote team collaboration to keep their lights on and provide optimum services and support to their customers.

Not many organizations have proper work from home or remote work policies and procedures established. And this has presented unexpected challenges in conducting smooth operations.

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A Guide to Budgeting with Agile Projects

Agile project management is a very involved process. While it is designed to improve project management in numerous ways — and by most accounts does just that — it still involves large teams, a variety of tasks, and a degree of flexibility that other methods don’t account for. If you’re not familiar with the ins and outs, our comprehensive guide to agile can serve as a nice introduction.

But basically, it’s a project management process designed to foster collaboration with stakeholders, on-the-go adjustments, and rapid prototype delivery, all in the name of achieving a perfected final product.
Generally speaking, agile project management is viewed as a very effective modern method.
The emphasis on collaboration and adaptability make it the preference of many development teams and clients alike, and the end products often come closer to meeting expectations than those developed via other projects processes.

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How to be Successful in Managing Digital Projects

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How To Manage Your Remote Team Effectively

Until a couple of months ago, remote teams was a concept practiced among the most advanced digital & wild SaaS companies. But circumstances, have made adoption of remote work policies and managing remote teams effectively the need of the hour.

Remote teams today are the lifeline of all businesses across industries and geographies. Be it your banker, the local city council, your government, the departmental store in your neighborhood and your favorite apps that you rely during such times….

The idea is to maintain order in all walks of life.

We all are used to work 50-60hrs or more a week, commute to office, do daily chores etc. And with the lockdown, you are all but restricted within your homes. So confinement & restrictive movement is suddenly the new normal.

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How to Setup your First Project in Orangescrum Project Setup Orangescrum

Orangescrum is an awesome Project Management tool providing project collaboration, task management, and time tracking which assists remote team to accomplish more with 14 days free trial period. Visit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C83dfN_IG8

Time Tracking or Time Blocking What’s Good

The business world understands only the language of money. And the currency is Time! Organizations are obsessed with time tracking and their employees cannot hate time tracking enough.

For businesses, time tracking is the way to showcase effort spent & work delivered. And employees feel they are being micromanaged, each of their moves is being tracked or they are not being trusted.

And the whole range of negative emotions follow.

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Best Tips to Work From Home in Covid-19

COVID-19 pandemic has presented quite an unusual challenge. It has disrupted normalcy across all aspects of human life. Countries around the world are in a lockdown mode right from businesses, educational institutes, shopping districts and all such places where people can gather.

Hence, businesses have resorted to absolute remote work strategies with a very lean on ground workforce.

Top companies like Google, Microsoft, Twitter. Hitachi, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce, Orangescrum has asked their employees to work-from-home to support the prevention of the corona spread.

It’s not a difficult task for the tech-savvy businesses as they have the tools, processes and set up to hit the ground running with remote offices and work from home options.

The challenge is for those businesses who never considered remote work and neither have any established policies and measures in place.

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How to benefit from Custom Status Workflows in Orangescrum

Status Workflows are important for projects. We understand that businesses have various functions & distinct projects thereof with their own workflows.

Also, project management software are at the center of end to end project planning, collaboration & execution.

Custom Status workflows are instrumental in ensuring your processes are followed and gaps if any are sealed!

And the primary objective – “Greater adherence to processes & prevent missteps in execution.”

Different departments have their own use cases ad would like to have the freedom to define workflows that suit them best. And this is an aspect that all good online project collaboration tools must meet.

In this blog we will focus on:

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