Quickstart

1. Create your workspace

   Sign up at orangescrum.com. You get a 14-day free trial with no card required.

   Your workspace name becomes part of your URL, so pick your organisation's name rather than a project name.

2. Create your first project

   Projects → Create. Give it a name and a short name — the short name prefixes every task reference, so keep it to two or three letters.

   Start with one real project rather than a test one. You will keep it, and seeing your own work in the tool tells you more than sample data.

   📁Project setup in detail

   Dates, status, members and settings.

3. Add tasks

   Add five to ten tasks that reflect what is actually in flight. For each, set an assignee and a due date — those two fields drive nearly every view and report in the product.

   Do not spend time on estimates or custom fields yet.

4. Pick a view that matches how you work

   You work in	Use
   Flowing work, no fixed iterations	Kanban board
   Fixed-length sprints	Agile & Scrum
   Dated plans and dependencies	Gantt chart
   Deadline-driven delivery	Milestones

   You can change your mind later — the data is the same underneath.

5. Invite your team

   Users → Invite. Add people, assign roles, and add them to the project.

   !

   Invitation without project membership does nothing useful

   A new user who is not a member of any project signs in to an empty workspace. Add them to the project in the same sitting.

   👥Roles and invitations

   Who should get which role.

6. Start tracking time (optional)

   If you bill clients or care about estimates versus actuals, turn on time tracking now rather than later — retrofitting it means a gap in your data.

   ⏱Time tracking

   Timer, manual entry and timesheets.

#Your first week

#Common early mistakes

🧭Next: the workspace tour

Where everything lives.