How to Kick Start your Projects with Project Management Tool Orangescrum Tutorial

Projects are as much a part of our work-life as the coffee machine. Strange but true! 

A typical work day of any professional is filled with all sorts of project meetings – status update, project review, Stakeholder review, management review and as many visits to the coffee machine! 

At times, it feels like a ritual to pay a visit to the coffee machine before entering the meeting room 

Why is it so?

Is it that a good coffee in the morning sets your tone for the day? 99% of we coffee lovers will say "Well YEAH!!" 

This simple daily act has an important message – “kick-offs are important” and all efforts and focus must be deputed to ensure we start things on the right note with our best foot forward. 

And, projects are no different! 

I consider Kick-off meetings to be one of the “Critical Success Factors” of any project. It is your opportunity as the Project Manager to rally your troops behind a common goal. 

It’s like your foundation laying ceremony if I may

You get to present the project vision, the expectations, stakeholders involved, the TEAM & its GOAL! 

It is best if you have the basics of a project setup in your chosen project management tool. For e.g. create the project, invite the project team, define user permissions, create the initial tasks & define timelines. 

Let us quickly see how we can prepare and orchestrate an effective and successful "Project Kick-Off Meeting".

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OrangeScrum Gets Awarded for Customer's Choice and Great User Experience by SoftwareSuggest

OrangeScrum – the project management and task management software has been awarded with two prestigious awards by SoftwareSuggest the best B2B product and customer review directory.

OrangeScrum has received the “Customer’s Choice for 2018” and “Great User Experience Award for 2018” among the top Project Management Softwares.

SoftwareSuggest is a business software discovery and recommendation platform. Software Suggest evaluates by:

• Shortlisting the features any business owner requires.
• Comparing those features with multiple software.
• Asking for quotations from vendors.
• And finally presenting the perfect report of evaluation.

OrangeScrum is simple Project Management and Task Management Software that brings all your teams on a single platform with dedicated support in SaaS and open source versions.

It facilitates quick task management, time tracking and end to end project planning. With transparency and visibility to multiple projects helps to boost the team performance with helpful features such as – Kanban view, Gantt chart, Executive Dashboard, In-App chat, Time Management, Resource Management and Invoicing.

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Orangescrum Learning Series: #5 How Kanban increases your Team’s Productivity

With never ending work and little time at hand, a simpler approach to work management in the need of the hour. With so many things on our mind, it keeps getting harder to stay on track. Moreover, with new tasks popping up every minute, it seems impossible to stick to a strict routine and follow our to-do list.

But being productive and on top of all things is a necessity and no longer a choice! Orangescrum’s Kanban view is our effort to help you be at your productive best!

We have been using our own Kanban feature for our daily task management; especially I used it to track all my tasks – TO DO, TO BE DONE & DONE!

So I bring to you the next in our learning series “How Kanban increases your Team’s Productivity?”

The Kanban view is preferred because of the multitude of benefits it represents:

Interactive

Kanban view is a visual approach to our tasks and important project milestones. You can manage all your tasks, milestones, drag and drop tasks between milestones and statuses and much more in this view. This is where real actions take place.

 

Productivity Booster

All changes/actions performed in this view reflect across the project. A neat card arrangement lets you focus on the key tasks at hand. A simple glance and you know what needs your attention right now. In other words it is a live planning dashboard. 

Real-Time Status Updates

Whether you are in the Milestone or Tasks the changes are effective in real time with all actions caught in the task history as well as the project activity feeds. Transparent communication without any noise. 

 

Single pane of view to Project progress

Kanban view quickly shows you the progress based on the estimated hours, hours spent and due dates. This way you never miss on what is round the corner and no tasks have a place to fall off your radar.

Personalized View

Each team member can rearrange the layout of the Kanban view based on their milestone and task status preferences. 

Note: You can add custom task statuses in Open Source edition only. But with Milestones/Task Groups, you can create your own Kanban view in both open source and cloud edition. 

Over time our customers and users have identified and agreed that Kanban View has helped them and their teams –

• To be highly organized and well planned
• Increase their productivity and save time from duplicity of efforts
• Better collaboration among the team
• Transparent communication and information sharing 
• And most importantly – driving attention to the right tasks at the right times 

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