Seamless Remote Working made simple

In the last few weeks, most business leaders have experienced the business landscape transform dynamically. This has brought agility right to the forefront, and the need to stay with the times is extremely critical to ensure business continuity. There’s no place to hide anymore. Enterprises can either choose to evolve or be left behind, as remote working becomes the new normal for companies all around the globe.

This is true especially for people working in technology and IT, because the IT industry has been among those that have been forced to tackle this adapt-or-die approach. This also means that the way teams operate has changed, whether we talk about people leading these teams, second and third level leadership who manage these teams, or developers responsible for writing and testing code. In fact, project managers have a very critical role when it comes to keeping workstacks on schedule, with a clear focus on dependencies.

Challenges faced by Project Managers

Moving from traditional to new age: Most enterprises find themselves grappling with legacy systems and processes when transforming digitally. More than the tech in use, this also implies a great cultural change for teams, which project managers are chosen to lead. Modern tech stacks need to be integrated both from a practice and tools perspective, which can be hard to get right

Skilling teams on agile development: Team members may understand the principles of agile in theory, but testing those principles out during implementation may seem daunting. Agile is not just a software development methodology; it’s a way of managing long-term projects aligned with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) approaches. Upskilling all team members to a basic level of understanding this completely thus becomes priority. 

Managing project plans seamlessly: When we talk of project delivery in a digitally transforming enterprise, managers need to not only break them up into smaller chunks of work, but also ensure there are no lags in dependencies. Integrated plans need to be created, while enabling real time feedback from customers. The biggest challenge here is seeing tasks progress according to timelines. 

The aurOps advantage for Project Managers

Our E2E aurOps delivery engine hits the nail right on the head, when it comes to simplifying the entire project management process. Here’s how: 

Transparency: The aurOps model ensures that task planning is taken care of, and transparency is maintained all throughout the process. The project manager (PM) has a complete view of distributed teams working from remote locations. The percentage of tasks planned, completed, running behind schedules or missing hygiene are usual pain point areas for managers, and these can all be accessed in real time. In addition to this, clear transparency into the Release / Features / Modules / Services / Microservices / Environments that have been deployed into production can also be seen, as deployment metrics and reports are generated. Task estimation can be planned well in advance!

Visibility / Communication / Resource Utilization: It is of utmost importance to keep visibility of resources, individual tasks and projects as a whole to avoid mishaps and miscommunication. While the PM earlier faced issues in keeping visibility and communication in check, the aurOps model makes for seamless communication across resources, thus ensuring optimal utilization of time and bandwidth to deliver better solutions. 

Correct Evaluation of Team Members: Each individual team member’s performance can be captured, analyzed and shown on a dashboard accessible to the PM. The correct feedback can thus be shared with teams, to make for robust delivery. 

Cost Variance: PM also has to keep a close track on the Planned, Actual and Earned values. In addition, his key KPI is how much +ve Cost variance fluctuates, and its impact on ROI. The engine keeps a track on this as well, so that there’s no room for ambiguity

Efforts Variance: A clear idea on Planned, Actual, Earned task budgets can be obtained, and Schedule Variance(SV) Schedule Performance Index can be maintained seamlessly

Feature / Userstories / Code level Quality and Standardisation: PMs roles are also important from observing, controlling and improving quality of the solution. Through the Lead and Cycle Time feature, a clear indication of the time Feature / Userstory can be taken and added to production. This makes for quicker and more efficient sprints. 

The key to success in a continuous delivery system is building great teams, and that’s exactly what the aurOps model promises. Try it for yourself, and you’ll see the difference it can make!