How to Benefit from Readymade Project Plans

Project plans are important to adding structure & keeping the focus on your project execution.

Starting with a well laid out project plan provides proper visibility to the depth of the project.

Mainly around

·      Scope clarity

·      time estimates

·      resource and skills requirements

·      the technology stack to be deployed

·      various inter-department touch points

·      overall budget required for successful completion

The above list gives a good glimpse of how your project would shape up as you plan and move through execution.

However, let us first understand some of the salient features of a project plan.

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How to Share Quick Project Status Report with Orangescrum

Having crisp project status reports is a must to drive crucial decisions & management attention at the right time. Savvy project managers understand the value of project overviews as this where they can garner all the support & momentum required for the project success.

On the other hand, it is always a challenge for project managers to gather relevant data points at times from multiple repositories & tools before they can prepare the master report.

Manual effort intensive, time consuming, boring and obviously tedious!

Most of all, not a judicious spend of precious efforts!

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Agile Project Management 10 Tips from the Masters

Agile is more of a mindset thing than a methodology for project management. It also involves a change in your culture and organization, and implementing the framework and practices of agile will lead to agility in how your business is run.

If you really understand the concept of agile, its benefits, and roadblocks, you are likely to think that your team will be able to carry it out.

However, you can’t be more wrong than this. Knowing it is one thing, practicing it is actually the real deal.

When it comes to agile, there’s a massive gap between understanding and mastery.

So, if you truly want to build your project management culture around agile, then you should look no further than the masters for help and expert tips.

If you have made the move and have contacted some IT leaders about agile project management, you will most likely get similar kinds of tips from them.

Here are 10 tips to help you succeed with agile project management.

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