Project management has become more complex in the past decade and this explains why a wide range of innovative project management approaches are reaching the market almost every month. Nonetheless, in the case of offshoring software development teams, the industry is relying more on agile and proprietary methods than on tools of general use.
Predictability Of The Project To Boost ROI
One of the key benefits of agile tools is how they enable project owners to make a data-driven forecast about ROI, expense, and team or individual success of projects. These accurate forecasts are provided by leading platforms such as Quickscrum or Asana by analyzing team velocity, burndown charts, sprints … which, in effect, shed light on the expected completion date, whether or not the ROI will exceed costs, how much space is left for faster production and delivery, etc.
Based on these early, final designs, project owners can get a better vision, making wiser decisions right before the software development team puts their hands to work. Better preparation from agile project management tools allows offshoring software development teams to achieve 37 percent faster time-to-market and 16 percent higher productivity, according to statistics.
Superior Morale and Performance Of The Team
Agile methodology splits large-scale activities (called epics) into smaller parts with a limited cycle time (called sprints) and each participant has a specific position. Its design helps teams to work effectively, on schedule, and transparently, both in terms of management and implementation using agile project management methods. Through delegated Kanban boards or Gantt maps, users can easily display their roles and team duties, invite others to share suggestions in sprint planning or everyday stand-up, interact through mentions, feeds, and file sharing.
Operating in a cohesive self-management environment allows people to be imaginative, inventive, and have rooms to exploit their skills. The general morale of the team is high, optimistic, and constructive by “teaching” one another.
Reduce Risks and Boost Product Quality
Risks are inherent in the planning and development process, but agile methods in project management successfully mitigate risks and create safeguards for high-quality deliverables. During agile software development, all stages of testing are performed to ensure that the final product is delivered in the optimal state. Scrum Masters or project owners have all the features (automated as well as manual) needed to do sprint retrospectives to achieve results, troubleshooting, and make changes in either process or start incremental releases to maximize software quality. It is particularly necessary because the deployment of the software development teams through many countries needs centralized quality control procedures. Teams will early gain valuable input in the development process through user stories and beta testing and help create incremental features that produce values regardless of their geographic location or time zone.
Criteria Used In Choosing Agile Project Management Tools
That being said, working through a wide range of project management tools available and selecting the right one involves careful review and evaluation of their functionality. Typically an agile project management system will have appropriate functions to:
Project Management: Kanban / Scrum boards, Gantt charts with related lists of jobs, timesheets, documentation, and documents.
Collaboration between teams: personalized team structures, exclusive user stories, shared boards and other sprint-related features to connect local and dispersed teams;
Metrics, monitoring, and analysis: iterations, team pace, burndown charts, and other figures for measuring team performance, managing risk, recommending changes, and (if necessary) incorporating client participation in the development process.


