How to Create a Project Management Plan

 

We have been working to increase project success rates for many years. One of the common reasons for failure has been a lack of project planning. This frequently indicates that the project management team did not involve stakeholders in the project planning and, as a result, was unaware of the project's scope. The budget and timetable will be unreasonable if you don't comprehend the project's breadth. There is a lot of proof that planning is essential to project management success.

According to the statistics, 12% of all resources are wasted due to bad project planning. Only 25% of organizations are using a project management software. 77% of high-performing teams use project management software.

How to Create a Realistic and Perfect Project Plan

1. Gather specifications from important stakeholders.

Collecting requirements is crucial once you've developed a project charter and determined the major project stakeholders. The gathering of needs from stakeholders is the first step in the planning process. Once you have this knowledge, you may define the project's scope and figure out exactly what you must give your stakeholders.

At this point in the project planning phase, effective communication skills are essential. Without efficient communication, it is easy to overlook crucial information that might be harmful to the project's success as a whole. A project plan guides every step toward completion.

2. Specify the project's scope.

Consider these questions: "What does the team need to deliver?" and "What issues are the stakeholders seeking to resolve?" Then, create a project template or a project scope statement in collaboration with your stakeholders to create a detailed description of the project and the product deliveries. You need to be well aware of the project's limitations and the project plan help you keep these in check.

For instance, if you are creating a software program for a client, you need to know what will be and won't be included. Who will make use of the app? What does it hope to accomplish? What essential features and capabilities must it have?

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How 3E Approach Help to Manage Remote Workforce

 

From the early pre-industrial era to the modern information age, the evolution of work has experienced several changes. The globe was greatly impacted by the outbreak. According to the Owl Labs State of Remote Working Report 2020, 77% of respondents concur that being able to work from home after COVID-19 would make them happy.

We are most definitely not going back in the time given the degree of freedom and liberty with the new normal. The necessity of hybrid remote team management and onsite working styles has also been mentioned by several other international leaders. But are businesses and the sizable, multigenerational workforce prepared for this paradigm shift?

We believe Remote to be the new Normal

Working remotely does involve a lot of rethinking and adjusting. A substantial change in business culture requires a well-organized methodology and strong executive backing. Investments in infrastructure, technology, and tools may help enterprises profit from remote working while also empowering people.

We introduce the 3E approach of Embrace-Enable-Empower through this Point of View post to assist businesses and individuals in mastering the art of work from anywhere. According to our predictions, the workplace of the future will be a hybrid one that allows for remote team management. This transformation in the workplace and working methods is not merely a passing trend; it represents a revolution in the modern day.

Embrace

Every transition usher in a fresh start. Embrace it from a new angle is the first step. The capacity of each of us to unwire and rewire the brain is significant. Being in a condition of resistance and frustration saps energy and is unhelpful. Therefore, to master the remote workforce in a frictionless mechanism and maintain this work style, we must continually concentrate on 3 pillars, both consciously and subconsciously.

Physical, mental, and emotional well-being

The importance of mental health was highlighted by nationwide lockdown scenarios brought on by the epidemic, particularly given the growth in feelings of loneliness and isolation among those who work from home. When designing the home office, ergonomics must be a top priority. This includes a sitting position, light intensity, an adjustable workstation, and comfy headphones. Filling timesheets isn't fully about finishing tasks but to collaborate with the team efficiently.

Goals, Collaboration, and Learning

Making significant progress can be challenging without access to nearby peer colleagues, water cooler talks, or coffee breaks with coworkers, especially when the objective of the job is unclear. Leaders have to convey the mission, vision, and objectives in a way that is independent of place. Project management is not just about completing the task.

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Epic View Feature Released for Agile Projects

 

Hey Orangescrummers! It’s my pleasure to share the latest feature updates in Orangescrum project management software. We have released the feature "Epics “is a collection of Stories that represent larger initiatives. We’re pleased to hear that it’s something you’ve been requesting and finally we have released the features to make your project management work smooth and simple.

The overall idea behind releasing this feature is to create an Epic in a separate page with minimum fields to be stored in the same table as tasks are stored. We will restrict certain functionality with epic type tasks.

The epic feature is available for only scrum type projects where the user needs the user access control to create/Edit/View an Epic.

Before deep diving into the feature, let me clarify the basics of Epic.

Epics bridge the gap between strategic initiatives and individual features.  Use EPIC to break work down incrementally — define a bigger project, separate it into key epics, then build out features and requirements in more detail. It’s also more convenient to discuss the product at a high level, for example, with stakeholders with no technical background, by looking at it as a set of epics.

What is an Epic?

An epic is one big piece of feature, bigger project, initiative, or just an issue that collects the work of mutual areas.

Otherwise is a collection of Stories that represent larger initiatives. Just like Stories, Epics move through a workflow and can be completed.

One can link all other issues to the epic to keep track of every task that’s related to a project.

In most cases, one can try to cover high-level goals (not detailed solutions) to reflect the (business) value.

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Importance Of Risk Management In Project

 

The importance of project risk management shouldn’t be taken lightly. More than 50% of organizational projects fail due to ignored or poor risk management procedures, while over 85% delay because project risks were not prioritized. Therefore, project managers should explore the various types of risks and their impact on project success.

Businesses, regardless of the niche, face risks that can affect their financial security and lead to bankruptcy and business closure. However, properproject risk management ensures that business risks and challenges are contained. Identifying project risks and mitigation measures early increases the chances of project success.

What is Risk Management?

Risk management is a business practice that helps project managers identify, evaluate, monitor, and improve risk mitigation processes. Businesses of all sizes should embrace risk management efforts. Unfortunately, small businesses informalize risk management, while large enterprises codify.

Managing business risks is important for the business’s stability while it grows. Running your business blindly without proper risk identification can lead to significant losses. For instance, small businesses that operate without knowledge of competitive risks can lose their market share. Ignoring safety risks can lead to workplace accidents and lawsuits while ignoring financial risks leads to financial losses.

That said, businesses should have dedicated project risk management resources. Most established enterprises have an entire department, while small businesses may have a small team headed by a risk manager. Generally, both teams focus on identifying business risks, assessing their extent, and preparing a mitigation strategy to avoid consequences.

Why Do Project Managers Need to Incorporate Risk Management?

Project managers should incorporate risk management for the following reasons:

1. Helps in Project Evaluation

The most obvious benefit of risk management is the role it plays in comprehensive project evaluation. Project managers thoroughly evaluate all the steps of the project, enabling them and the whole team to gather detailed information about the project, potential problems, and how risks can be solved before it begins. Project managers and relevant teams can then proceed freely with the project with guaranteed success.

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Service Oriented Architecture in NodeJS

Serviceoriented architecture is a way to Building a backend applications by consisting multiple independent services. A service can be any business logic that completes an action and provides a specified result to the end point user.

Each service in SOA is a complete business function in itself.

For an Example

Let’s discuss about a grocery store.

The owner add the product details in the inventory. Then owner search to find data about a unique product. And the backend application database query should be inside the service section by leveraging data access layer. Then it securely fetch data and give the response to the owner.

Layers in Service oriented Architecture

1. Router layer
2. Service layer
3. Data access layer

How SOA Works

●        Here first when API call, in node app first it face router section where all the authentication and validation occur through the middleware function. Then control moves towards controller section which work is collect the incoming data related to APIrequest. Here all the business logic to access data are combined inside a service.

So the controller invokes that service and service leverage data access layer to connect with database and calculation. Then services return the data to the controller. After that controller give the response to the end point user.

●        The most important benefit in SOA is as all the services are independent and small chunks so whenever we want to change our programing language it should be very fast and easy in development process.

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How to Create an IoT App: Internet of Things for Your Success

 

IoT(Internet of Things) is a medium of connection and communication that helps to connect one device with another through the internet. Besides smartphones, computers and laptops, we can use IoT in other smart devices.  

Both businesses and individuals are showing their interest in IoT applications to take advantage of the latest technology and the number is growing everyday. As the demand is growing day-by-day, the developers and companies are building applications which are compatible with  various types of devices with IoT systems and servers.

The main objective of IoT technology is to clarify the data, analyze it, and create the technology that will be faster and useful for the user.

Why Develop a Custom Internet of Things application?

The Internet of Things market is huge, the annual growth rate of IoT is more than 30%, and this figure is increasing every time. As a result, big marketing giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and more are investing heavily in IoT technology based applications and solutions.

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The Most Popular Project Management Methodologies

 

Project management methods are approaches that support a team in streamlining operations and achieving success, whether that success comes in the form of decreased time, increased revenue, or higher customer pleasure.

Widely used Project Management Methods

There are two widely used project management methodologies: Waterfall and Agile.

Although both of them are well-liked in the software industry, there are reasons why they can’t be most effective for various projects.

The major distinction is that while Agile encourages simultaneous work on many project phases, Waterfall is a linear style of working that demands the team to finish each phase of the project before moving on to the next.

With the efficient implementation of a project management software, the entire process can be easily handled.

In response to the strict structure of Waterfall, the agile technique was created. It's a far more flexible type of methodology as a result.

Years may pass until a software development project is finished, and during that period, technology may undergo tremendous change.

Agile was created as a flexible approach that accepts absorbing changes of direction even late in the process and considering stakeholders' comments at all times.

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