How to Set Custom Reminders in Orangescrum

Hello, Orangescrummers! I am back with another update for you. Now add reminders to a task to never miss your deadlines or appointments.

Considering you’re working on different projects, assigned multiple tasks, attending meetings, reviews, sometimes we might miss important deadlines, appointments or follow-ups.

Do you want to be reminded about these deadlines on a specific day and time?

Do you want to set reminders for your team members for critical tasks and events?

Well, you may forget, but Orangescrum will help you keep everything right under your thumb!

Whether it’s the due date of a task, deadline to generate a report or submit a proposal, sending invoices to your customers or invoice payments; just set a reminder and focus on your actual work.

When it’s time, Orangescrum will send you an email notification about the job or task so you can get things done at the right time.

 How to set reminders to a task for you and your team?

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7 Team Management Skills You Can Build With Orangescrum

Team Management and leadership are fundamental to running a sustainable business. They are required and tested at every level across the organization whether big or small. 

Although there is no right or wrong leadership style, but there are certain team management attributes that have proven to be successful. 

Let us take a look at some of these attributes that have stood the test of time and the rapidly changing business landscape. 

What is Team Management?

It is more accountability than authority

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Task Management - The Key to Productive Teams

The most successful people aren't superheroes. They have the same 24 hours in their day like us. But they find significant ways to “do” more in fewer hours. How do they do it?

When I was juggling for the solution, I found task management techniques to stay on top.

Task Management is more than planning, assigning, and tracking.

It is more about having the right people work on the right tasks in a time-boxed manner and bring them to their logical conclusion.

A robust task management process helps individuals and groups to collaborate and share information to achieve their collective goals.

Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done!

Effective task management requires managing all the aspects of a task which includes time, priority, status, type, dependency, notifications, and so on.

Different Approaches to Task Management:

Here are the 2 task management methods which can improve your workflow and business productivity.

●       Kanban

●       Agile

Is task management quite hectic for you?

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How To Manage Distributed Teams With Agile Project Management

50% of the U.S. workforce will be remote by 2020.

In other words, managing a distributed team will lead to difficulties with engagement and collaboration, it's time to rethink your workplace strategy.

Here's how to manage remote/distributed teams with Agile Project Management. 

From a recent report, it was found, “In 2018/19, the application development process has emerged as the one witnessing maximum outsourcing opportunity – with 56% of the organizations around the world outsourcing their development requirements”.

(Source- https://appinventiv.com/blog/agile-project-as-clients-extended-distributed-team)

Outsourced software development has grown robustly in recent years. Companies are getting multiple perks by outsourcing their product development. The two main advantages are access to global technology skillset and the cost advantage. Most of the projects have teams that are dispersed and work on a distributed model.

And since 2005, the Remote Workforce Has Increased by 140%. That means exactly 10% each year.

Hence, remote companies have started following Agile Project Management to make sure that the distributed teams can connect with each other and complete the projects on time. An agile team can bring business agility, develop high-quality software, and work in a competitive environment.

But companies have to cope with multiple challenges including cultural gaps, language barriers, and time zone differences while managing their distributed agile teams.
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How to Use Kanban Board for Better Project Management

Kanban is getting a lot of buzz these days in project management. One of the most noteworthy sayings for Kanban is: “Stop starting and start finishing.” Sounds profound, but how do you implement that? Here's the answer-

According to the PMI Pulse of the Profession annual report,

●       48% of projects are not finished within the scheduled time

●       Whereas 43% of projects are not completed within the fixed budget and

●       31% of projects do not meet the business intent and original goals

(Source- kanbanize.com)

I have gone through some other research and found that “only 31% of all organizations deliver projects that are likely to meet original goals or business objectives. In addition, just 34% of organizations deliver projects that are likely to achieve stakeholder satisfaction”.

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