Most Effective Ways to Manage Remote Project Teams Effectively

 

If you work in a remote team or manage one, you’ve probably realized how advantageous these teams are especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote teams allow you to work in any location at any time.

Unlike company employees, you don’t have to work with a fixed schedule. For your remote team to complete the projects on time, you’ll need to build a close relationship with them. While this might not be an easy task, it will pay off in spades in the long run.

You can invest in the best tools and develop the clearest strategies and procedures to handle the projects. However, the tools and strategies can never replace people.

Every remote team needs clear strategies to develop a strong team environment and collaborate even when they can’t socialize or have a drink together.

Here are some of the most effective ways to manage remote project teams effectively.

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Say Hola to New OrangeScrum Enterprise Updates

Hello Orangescrumers! I am here with another list of delightful OrangeScrum Enterprise updates.

Few new features like Checklists, Date Time Format, User Profile Edit, Weekend & Holiday Management along with new designs for Task List, Task detail Page, Project Overview, Kanban, Milestone, Workflow Management etc. have been released for OrangeScrum Enterprise edition.

Let’s see what these updates mean to you:

Project Overview:

Refreshing Project Overview dashboard with all the needed project metrics at a glance for an overall progress of the project.

This new intuitive Projects Overview Dashboard is the new way of tracking and monitoring tasks, projects, and resources all at once in a single view.

The project overview dashboard gives all the important project metrics you care about:

• Project Status
• Project Progress Status in percentage (%)
• Project Start and End Date
• Task Count by Status like New, In Progress, Resolved and Closed
• Time Log Report with total Billable, Non-billable hours and total time spent for the project
• Team Member’s information with Total Tasks assigned, Overdue Tasks, Billable Hours and Non-Billable hours of each resource
• Project Go-Live Date
• Tasks File & Attachments list
• Number of Task Type belongs to which Task Type
• Activities Stream
• Overdue tasks
• Milestones report with New, Work in Progress, Overdue and Total tasks per Milestones 
• Project Notes

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