Common Work from Home Challenges for Project Managers

While businesses are revisiting their work from home and remote team practices; project managers continue to battle with challenges of running the business with the entire workforce being virtual.

Working from home has been an established norm even before the pre-COVID era of 2020! Businesses had a good mix of virtual teams to have access to the best global talent pool there is and to be closest to their customers as possible.

But, there is a radical shift in running operations and managing projects & resources when the entire business is being run by remote teams.

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Time Tracking Benefits for Remote Teams

Businesses are being run by remote teams due to the Covid-19 outbreak today. And all such organizations whose billing is dependent on time sheets, time tracking is a must.

Consulting firms, professional services, marketing and digital agencies all get paid for exchange of skilled labour time.

Accurate time tracking is crucial for organizations to build trust and bill their clients with confidence.

Time tracking is a great way to

• generate reports of your team’s efforts
• monitor task progress
• assess if your team is aligned with the customer deadlines
• increase visibility of your billable works
• understand your team’s utilization and productivity rates

Read on to see, how project, delivery & resource managers can collaborate with their team to maintain productivity and profitability of their projects with optimum time management practices.

Identify repetitive Project Tasks

Every project has quite some degree of repetitive tasks. As a project manager, you must assess how many of such tasks are considered billable. Next, estimate them as accurately as possible.


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5 Things You Need for Successful Project Management

You have deployed the right project management tool, have the resources lined up, all the approvals & funding and ready to take-off. The team is excited and everything goes into chaos as the team begins the project execution.

Having a project management tool isn’t enough. The idea is to make sure the tool provides you with some of the most critical project management features that enable execution as per the project plan.

Let’s take a look into the key project management software capabilities that enable successful project completion.

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How to Manage User Roles and Access Control in Orangescrum

User role management and access control measures prevent unauthorized access to confidential project information. Project information may consist of critical business or client strategy, new product or service launch, financial information, customer information etc.

All such information must always be accessed by authorized personnel only in a “must know” and “need to know” basis.

Furthermore, too much information can also lead to confusion and distraction among the project teams.

Hence, granting access to the right people with the relevant privileges is crucial to project execution and success.

Project teams have a lot of activities and tasks to take care of. And having the right information at the right time is vital. At the same time if you allow everyone to access all the information there is then the team will:

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How to Choose a Project Management Software for your Remote Team

Remote teams are the new norm and ensuring they are well supported by a project management software is on top of every project manager’s mind.

No wonder, there has been a huge spike in the project management & collaboration software adoption rates in the last 3 months.

The whole idea is centered around:

·      Keeping the business functional as usual

·      Setting up an effective remote team

·      Ensuring optimum customer support

·      Preventing distraction and chaos among the teams

Why do I need project management software?

Project Management tools come handy, with their boundless benefits, ease of use & their role in boosting productivity.

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How to Maintain a Steady Client Management Process

Having a robust Client Management process is all the more important due to the disruption by COVID-19. Your customers are no exception. And this calls to put steady client management at the center of our business strategy post COVID-19.

Understand full well that, not all your customers had the right remote work strategy or were in an industry that could have been less impacted due to the pandemic.

So, start with reviewing your existing customer base, initiate contact, engage more (if not already done), and identify how they are running their business and how you can help.

There may be a lot of things that you can do for your customers. And not everything is about giving them hefty discounts or charging less.

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How to Make the Work from Home Transition Effective

Remote teams and Work from Home are here to stay. They are not the trend but the norm! Teams across the globe are adopting project management & virtual collaboration tools such as Orangescrum to make the work from home transition smoother.

WFH isn’t a new phenomenon but has been around for over a decade with last 5 years showing at least 44% of US professional work half their work week remotely.

More and more tech savvy businesses and new age entrepreneurs have chosen to run an entirely remote company.

Let’s get back to the recent economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and why remote teams and work from home has gained so much traction.

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