Project Planning Techniques
Practical guides to the scheduling and planning problems every delivery team runs into, and which Orangescrum features help you work through them.
These are guides, not product features
Orangescrum does not contain a scheduling solver. It will not compute an optimal plan, level your resources automatically, or assign people for you. What it does is make the inputs visible: dependencies, critical path, who is committed to what, capacity, and cost. Each guide explains a technique and names the real features that support it. Where a technique needs something we do not have, the page says so.
Resource-constrained scheduling
Planning around the people you actually have, not the people the plan assumes.
Multi-project scheduling
Coordinating work when several projects compete for the same team.
Workforce assignment
Matching people to work by skill, availability, and what they already carry.
Parallel task execution
Running work concurrently, and spotting when it only looks concurrent.
Cost-efficient task sequencing
Ordering work so it wastes the least money, not just the least time.
Budget-constrained planning
Planning within a fixed budget, and seeing an overrun before it lands.
Sprint and iteration scheduling
Deciding what a team can realistically commit to in one iteration.
Release planning coordination
Getting several teams to a release date without a spreadsheet.
Code review scheduling
Stopping review from becoming the bottleneck between done and shipped.
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Critical path optimisation
Find the chain that sets your end date.
Task duration optimisation
Estimate and shorten the work itself.
Milestone and deadline optimisation
Make the dates on the plan mean something.
Sprint planning optimisation
Commit to the right amount of work each sprint.
Quality control optimisation
Catch defects without stalling delivery.
The Features These Guides Keep Coming Back To
Almost every planning problem is answered by the same handful of capabilities. If you only look at four things, look at these.
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