Orangescrum Enterprise Release: End-to-End Epic Management

At Orangescrum, we continuously strive to make project management simpler, smarter, and more Agile. Until now, users could create and view Epics within projects — a great starting point. But modern teams need deeper structure, more flexibility, and a clear link between strategy and execution. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a major feature release: End-to-End Epic Management. You can now manage your projects using a complete Agile hierarchy — from Epics → Features → User Stories → Tasks — all inside Orangescrum.

This update transforms how teams plan, track, and deliver work — ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.

What’s New in Orangescrum Epic Management?

With this update, you can now:

• Create Epics – Define the big picture goals that drive your projects.

• View the list of Epics – Easily navigate, organize, and track all your Epics in one place.

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5 Signs Your Project Is Headed for Failure and How to Prevent

You’ve kicked off a new project. The plan looked solid. The team was pumped. But somewhere along the way, things started slipping — deadlines missed, team confusion, budget overruns, and general chaos. Sound familiar? The truth is, most failing projects don’t crash overnight. They show subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) signs early on. The good news? With the right project visibility and the right project management software, you can fix what’s broken before it’s too late.

In this article, we’ll explore the five red flags that signal project trouble — and how to course-correct using modern project management tools and collaboration platforms.

Missed Deadlines Are Becoming the Norm

If deadlines keep getting pushed and last-minute scrambling becomes standard, your project is likely off track.

What It Means:

• Poor time estimation

• Unclear priorities

• Lack of task ownership or dependencies

Why It Matters:

Missing one deadline might be a fluke. But repeated delays signal a deeper problem in project planning, resource allocation, or accountability.

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Why Project Visibility is Critical to Project Success

 

Having the right project visibility is a critical factor to project success. Remember the fact that there are desired outcomes of business value that got the project sponsored in the first place.

But more often than not, projects fail all around us. And there can be a zillion reasons for your project’s failure and not gaining enough attention within the organization is a major contributor to that list.

Projects and their success are dependent on numerous factors right from stakeholder engagement, budget, resources, company’s strategy and vision to market conditions and competition.

Good thing is, you have some control over some of them and exercising that control in a meaningful manner can contribute a lot towards your project success.

Why do we want our projects to gain more and more visibility?

Success of our endeavours matters to us the most and if you are a PM it is indeed crucial for you to add more and more successful projects to the kitty.

Running projects is a team game. It takes more than a PM, a handful of resources and a project management software to generate desired business outcomes from a project.

For starters, let us identify the key contributors of your project.

• The business (customer or your own organization)
• Sponsors & Executive team
• Project Team (PMO, Resource Manager, Teams)
• The impacted parties (maybe a department, a specific business function or the entire company)

If any one of the above contributors are not engaged rightly, the project will fetch less than desired outcomes.

Source: https://www.orangescrum.org/articles/why-project-visibility-is-critical-to-project-success.html