How to Manage User Roles and Access Control in Orangescrum

User role management and access control measures prevent unauthorized access to confidential project information. Project information may consist of critical business or client strategy, new product or service launch, financial information, customer information etc.

All such information must always be accessed by authorized personnel only in a “must know” and “need to know” basis.

Furthermore, too much information can also lead to confusion and distraction among the project teams.

Hence, granting access to the right people with the relevant privileges is crucial to project execution and success.

Project teams have a lot of activities and tasks to take care of. And having the right information at the right time is vital. At the same time if you allow everyone to access all the information there is then the team will:

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How to Choose a Project Management Software for your Remote Team

Remote teams are the new norm and ensuring they are well supported by a project management software is on top of every project manager’s mind.

No wonder, there has been a huge spike in the project management & collaboration software adoption rates in the last 3 months.

The whole idea is centered around:

·      Keeping the business functional as usual

·      Setting up an effective remote team

·      Ensuring optimum customer support

·      Preventing distraction and chaos among the teams

Why do I need project management software?

Project Management tools come handy, with their boundless benefits, ease of use & their role in boosting productivity.

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How to Maintain a Steady Client Management Process

Having a robust Client Management process is all the more important due to the disruption by COVID-19. Your customers are no exception. And this calls to put steady client management at the center of our business strategy post COVID-19.

Understand full well that, not all your customers had the right remote work strategy or were in an industry that could have been less impacted due to the pandemic.

So, start with reviewing your existing customer base, initiate contact, engage more (if not already done), and identify how they are running their business and how you can help.

There may be a lot of things that you can do for your customers. And not everything is about giving them hefty discounts or charging less.

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How to Make the Work from Home Transition Effective

Remote teams and Work from Home are here to stay. They are not the trend but the norm! Teams across the globe are adopting project management & virtual collaboration tools such as Orangescrum to make the work from home transition smoother.

WFH isn’t a new phenomenon but has been around for over a decade with last 5 years showing at least 44% of US professional work half their work week remotely.

More and more tech savvy businesses and new age entrepreneurs have chosen to run an entirely remote company.

Let’s get back to the recent economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and why remote teams and work from home has gained so much traction.

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How to Benefit from Readymade Project Plans

Project plans are important to adding structure & keeping the focus on your project execution.

Starting with a well laid out project plan provides proper visibility to the depth of the project.

Mainly around

·      Scope clarity

·      time estimates

·      resource and skills requirements

·      the technology stack to be deployed

·      various inter-department touch points

·      overall budget required for successful completion

The above list gives a good glimpse of how your project would shape up as you plan and move through execution.

However, let us first understand some of the salient features of a project plan.

According to Wikipedia –

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How to Share Quick Project Status Report with Orangescrum

Having crisp project status reports is a must to drive crucial decisions & management attention at the right time. Savvy project managers understand the value of project overviews as this where they can garner all the support & momentum required for the project success.

On the other hand, it is always a challenge for project managers to gather relevant data points at times from multiple repositories & tools before they can prepare the master report.

Manual effort intensive, time consuming, boring and obviously tedious!

Most of all, not a judicious spend of precious efforts!

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Agile Project Management 10 Tips from the Masters

Agile is more of a mindset thing than a methodology for project management. It also involves a change in your culture and organization, and implementing the framework and practices of agile will lead to agility in how your business is run.

If you really understand the concept of agile, its benefits, and roadblocks, you are likely to think that your team will be able to carry it out.

However, you can’t be more wrong than this. Knowing it is one thing, practicing it is actually the real deal.

When it comes to agile, there’s a massive gap between understanding and mastery.

So, if you truly want to build your project management culture around agile, then you should look no further than the masters for help and expert tips.

If you have made the move and have contacted some IT leaders about agile project management, you will most likely get similar kinds of tips from them.

Here are 10 tips to help you succeed with agile project management.

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