Showing posts with label Time and Resource Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time and Resource Management. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Product Update – Orangescrum Open Source V1.8.0 Released


It gives us immense pleasure to announce the latest release of the Orangescrum Open Source base code.

Orangescrum Open source edition offers simple yet highly effective project and task management absolutely free for its users. You can create unlimited projects, milestones and tasks to collaborate among your teams. 
Release Summary

The release consists of code & UI/UX improvements, bug fixes and deprecation issues fixes.
The best thing about this release among others is the ability to directly invite/add users to Orangescrum without the SMTP setup. It saves you time and hassle of setting up email configuration to get your team on-board. 
How to add users in the Orangescrum V1.8.0?

 Click on “Add User” on the User list page. The revised pop-up has an additional field for “password”.

The admin can set a password of his choice and once he has successfully added the user, he can share the email id and password with the user to login.

The user can login to the tool and change password if he wishes to. 

Monday, 27 November 2017

Orangescrum Capabilities That Increase Your Productivity


There are a lot of articles, suggestions, tools available to increase your productivity. But at the end of the day, it will not enhance your productivity unless you organize yourself and generate optimum output with minimum input.
Question is why you or enterprises want their employees to be highly productive at a workplace?
  • You want to do more work at less time?
  • You want to achieve better results of the work you do with your time?
  • By more productive, you want to earn more with your time?
  • You want to be more productive to relax and make life easier?
  • You want time to do something you’re passionate about?
If you look at the above points, then you will get one thing, without managing your time effectively you can’t increase your productivity.
You can use all possible tools and systems at your disposal, but what matters most is “your own awareness of your time & how effectively do you use it”.
“People’s behaviour stats show that they actually use 60% or less of available work time. Even though they are physically at work five days a week, they are only productively using three days. So you pay almost 70% extra wage for getting things done.”
Let us see how an intuitive and smart time tracking solution can help you manage the greatest of resources; i.e. “Time” and lead to optimum results for your team and company.
Time and Resource Management
As amply clear, you can never be more productive without managing your time. And to this effect you need
  • An inbuilt Smart Timer – to track your time.
  • Resource Availability – to help you decide whom to use, when and where.
  • Resource Utilization – to review and analyze how your team fared w.r.t the estimated time.
  • Leave Planner – to have a robust resource planning with real time insights.
Let us see how Orangescrum’s Time and Resource Management capabilities help you achieve
ALL of the above!
Timer to Track Time:
With smart intuitive timer, you can track the exact time spent by you or a resource on a task. It will give a better idea how much time you’re spending; accordingly, you can manage your time or you can take corrective measures.
How to use the timer?
You can start timer in 4 ways;
  • Task List Page
  • Quick Links
  • Quick Button
  • Task Detail Page
From the task list page, you can click on the dropdown as shown in the below image and then click on “Start Timer” to track your time.