Why is Project Management Helpful as a Career Opportunity

Project Management is the most in-demand path in the agile environment.

To overcome global challenges, it’s important to respond to pressing issues without delays.

Organizations need a structured method to plan, control, organize, and manage their resources (including internal skills) to produce timely results in response to these issues. And these outcomes should be in line with current business objectives and requirements.

A Project Manager is equipped with project skills to handle different levels of work complexities.

As a Project Manager, if you’re willing to start a career in a PMP profession, you need to ask yourself—why opt for Project management as a career?

What is your future scope for this profession?

Want to know if Project Management is a coveted career path to shape up your future?

Let’s check it out!

Project Management Facts & Stats

In 2017, PMI reported the demand for Project Managers in the next 10 years will see a rapid growth compared to the demand for workers in other occupations.

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How to Increase Employee Productivity? Here are the 6 Surefire Strategies to Follow

Increase Employee productivity with simple strategies that have proved to beneficial to Managers.

Productivity has taken the center stage in the business world. 

Let’s find out the exact secret behind this theory:-

What drives your business ROI is connected with what drives productivity. What drives productivity depends on what drives your employee’s enthusiasm levels. 

Since our company is made up of people, it’s tough to neglect the most essential element that scales your business.

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How to get Daily Work Updates for your team and project in Orangescrum

Running a small level unit or managing an enterprise business, maintaining your daily operations is vital for your efficiency & sustainability.

As your business grows, the task updates and reports of your team or project can easily help you stay ahead of the game.

And the businesses that are not monitoring it carefully may lose track of what is happening within their business.

Just imagine the scenarios where:

●        you have an an important project to work on and you need to develop everything from the action plan to strategy, but not sure about the progress.

●        a day at work where you do not have to follow your team or customer or vendor for information or updates?

●        When you are dependent on others to provide the latest updates so that you can make that crucial presentation to your customer, management, stakeholders or sponsors. 

However, through Ornagescrum to get rid of such situations, the admin can set up a reminder option, by which the team member would get a reminder or email.

In turn, the team members required just to respond to that email by filling out the daily progress updates.

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Product Update Sprint Board Filters, Manual Time Entry enhancements, Duplicate Labels & more

Hey Orangescrum’ers, June's product update is here. We are pleased to announce a few releases and fixes for all our customers. 

We are keen to listen and act on the feedback received from our ever-growing active users to strengthen the project management capabilities overall.

All these updates are aimed to make Orangescrum more user-friendly and bring more clarity to the project progress status.

You still get to use and realize the full potential of these new updates. And here I mentioned  all respectively

Product Releases

More filters in Sprint Board:

Before

Many users shared their suggestions during their feedback call that scrum masters wanted to use date filters to get more clarity on their active sprint in Sprint Board.

So users can't know when the task is started or due or last updated.

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5 Secrets of Project Planning for Project Managers

Project Planning takes time and effort but becomes a necessity for a project’s success. It also guides sponsors, stakeholders, Project Managers, and teams throughout the project phase.

Identifying risks before it turns into a crisis has become critical.

Clearly, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail... Ironical, isn’t it?

Usually, Project Managers rush the planning phase in a struggle to execute the project deliverables.

What are the Benefits of Project Planning?

1.       Project Planning needs Goal Setting

A plan without goals is synonymous with a business without a vision.

Setting goals will help your team members establish a reliable benchmark to evaluate the progress of their contributions. You won’t need to waste time on tasks that do not support the goals.

If there are any conflicts about project deliverables during the process, you can remind your stakeholders and customers of the agreed-upon goals, which can possibly prevent scope creep.

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Work From Home Tips for Successful Project Managers

Work from home is a blessing in disguise if utilized the right way. Since the pandemic, the world is dealing with challenges with work-from-home routines. They’re no different for a Project Manager. Staying productive remotely is crucial, no matter which industry one belongs to. 

But here’s good news!

We probably got the answer to this!

A recent Upwork survey cited that U.S. employees saved over $90 billion due to not commuting. Now this gives some relief from the stress of commuting from an employee’s daily routine. 

While there’s an advantage, it still becomes difficult for Project Managers if they’re used to a face-to-face working space. 

To lead a successful remote team, Project Managers need to handle remote project management challenges and ways to fix this. 

Here are some ways that can ease your Project Management efforts and win the attention of your team!

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Maximize Remote Team Productivity in 5 Easy Ways

Remote team productivity indirectly translates to quality + quantity with a steady workflow of your projects. Maintaining a work-life balance becomes a hassle when adjusting to the new normal of remote working.

Owl Labs surveyed that nearly 70% of full-time workers are working from home since COVID-19.

The lack of constant face-to-face monitoring has taken a toll on productivity levels.

This being said, staying on tasks, scheduling, and focusing on them has called for more improvements in the overall workflow.

Can managing a remote team still prove to be productive with team members spread across the globe?

Let’s find out—

Strategies to Improve Remote Team Productivity –
1. Avoid Micromanagement

Micromanaging translates to a lack of trust in team members.  If you want to build a successful team, micromanaging is a strict no-no.

Of course, given the current remote working conditions, craving control is very natural.

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How To Create An Effective Marketing Planning Process

Marketing is the base of every business strength. By analyzing the marketing process of any business, it would be easy to figure out the business capabilities and its challenges.

So, a business popularity and goodwill enhancement rate depend upon the business marketing process and planning.

Like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Jira, Orangescrum, etc are famous for their strong marketing planning and process.

Driving a successful marketing strategy makes it easier to achieve the business goal.

However, sending the bulk of emails and spending some budget on paid ads isn’t the real meaning of marketing strategy and it may not be helpful for your business as well. Marketing success depends on good and effective marketing planning or strategies.

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Stakeholder Relationships | How to Engage and Build Trust

Stakeholder relationships are critical as they have a vested interest in your project. Key project stakeholders can take your project to heights or take it downhill.

It all depends on a blend of various factors that influence great relationships with stakeholders. Even if you meet the key objectives within timelines, if your stakeholder isn’t satisfied, it takes a toll on everyone’s happiness.

Project Visions are discussed in the initial phase with a stakeholder. If the vision isn’t clear, projects are bound to suffer just like the above 29% of them!

Practicing effective Stakeholder management can help Project Managers manage various stakeholders involved in a project.

This blog revolves around some crucial tips for building trustworthy relations with Stakeholders.

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Project Resource Management and Their Challenges

Resource management challenges can be extremely hard to predict with multiple projects. Working out a plan and managing resources with multiple projects isn’t a cakewalk.

After the pandemic, organizations are careful with their budget. This has given rise to resource management issues.

Research cites that nearly 46% of team leaders believe that hitting project deadlines is their biggest problem. This usually happens when working with a large team size.

As seen in a report by Wellingtone’s 2019 State of Project Management, Resource Management has seen the second-largest spike with 30% of respondents. A project can go haywire without proper resource planning and allocation.

Managing teams, monitoring, and improving processes are the very essence that forms a solid Resource Management plan. Needless to say, all of these factors are connected to productivity.

Maximum productivity out of little resources is something that every Project Manager aims at.

However, to hit that goal, we need to wipe out the most common Resource Management hurdles that disrupt project efforts.

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Why is Agile Scrum Your Ultimate Go-To Approach for Project Challenges

Agile has gained a competitive edge among varied businesses today. Scrum is a subset of the agile methodology. Not to forget, it’s quite well-recognized amongst engineering teams.

In software development teams, Scrum has emerged as the most popular and dynamic project management technique.

The PwC statistics cite agile projects to be 28% more successful than traditional projects. This is because a Scrum framework helps teams to work together and structure the work. But ever wondered, how does Scrum help Software development teams in hitting goals and overcoming difficult challenges?

Let’s take a look!

How Agile Scrum Resolves the Pain Points of Software Teams

1. Rapidly Changing Requirements

When it comes to agile project management, Scrum advantage definitely comes into the picture. Software development teams often come across changing requirements and unrealistic time frames.

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Top Team Management Pain Points To Focus On

Team Management Pain points can be worrisome for a project. They come with no second-guessing, but just solution as a last resort.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”  – Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric

Mr. Welch rightly mentioned how a Team manager as a Lead can first help themselves to help others. A Team Manager juggles from building trust to getting work done, to multi-tasking!

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