Guide to Managing Tasks with Orangescrum

Task Management enables simplifying project execution and timely delivery. Project managers breakdown projects into meaningful tasks and subtasks that can be assigned across the team for seamless execution.

The breakdown of tasks is crucial to ensuring all important activities are accounted for and tracked. Tasks act as the building blocks shaping up the overall project vision and achieving the agreed goals.

Task management also proves helpful in ensuring skill based assignment, transparent progress tracking and end to end collaboration among your remote teams.

The infographic will give you a quick overview of how you can create, manage and execute tasks within Orangescrum.

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Agile Project Management Refining your Product Backlog

Agile scrum is almost a universally accepted methodology for product owners, development teams and customers the world over. Product backlog refinement is a critical agile project management activity that must be looked into in detail.

The moment one hears the words “product backlog” the understanding is there is a ready list of items, features or enhancements that just need to be worked upon.

Far from true. The product itself and the vision are easily overlooked. The word product in the product backlog is there for a reason 

Understanding the Product Backlog

Having a robust and clear understanding of the product and the vision is crucial to getting there.

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How to Ensure Optimum Utilization of your Remote Teams

Remote team is the new normal. More and more businesses are relying on an entire remote team strategy to run their operations. But they are still battling for the right answer to “are my remote teams a 100% utilized?”

There was a time when remote work was considered a privilege, made available only to a select few under extra ordinary situations.

But, the tables have taken a 180 degree turn. COVID-19 pandemic has made it highly unsafe to be out of our homes. Yet clients need to be serviced, bills need to be paid and businesses need to run full steam.

The initial months of 2020 were more about being safe and absolutely indoors. As the new world order came to life, it was understood that COVID-19 is here to stay and our businesses and lives need to work around and with it. No choice whatsoever.

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Project Management Leadership for Remote Teams

Business disruption globally due to COVID-19 has called for on the fly evolution of project management leadership and remote teams. Organizations with a matured work from home strategy have been able to adapt to the changing business scenario faster than others.

Getting the business operational with functional remote teams and crisis management teams was just the beginning.

The initial sole objective was to protect the organization, the customers’ interests and its employees.

But as companies got back on their feet with the right set of remote team deployment, a lot of unprecedented challenges came to the fore.

Dispelling fears, motivating employees, keeping the eye on the goal, answering to anxious customers and till continuing to deliver business as usual has been an uphill task for organizations the world over.

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