Project Management Bulletin: July, 2026

Project Management Bulletin: July, 2026


Welcome back to a new edition of project management bulletin craftily curated with all new updates from our suite of project management products--Zoho Projects, Zoho Sprints, Zoho Projects Plus, and Zoho BugTracker!

Before we begin, we wanted to share a light-hearted quote with you. Have you heard of the 90-90 rule?

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The first 90% of a project accounts for 90% of the time. The remaining 10% accounts for the other 90% of the time.  

Hilarious, isn’t it? But if Zoho Projects were a person, we could very well imagine a big frown.

Our timeless project management capabilities offer the best of classic, agile, and hybrid project management options, for customers to experience the best of project, time, and user management solutions. Here’s our latest roundup of our upcoming meetups, new features, and latest updates.
 

Project management meetups 

Zoho Projects Roadshow’ 26 

Our yearly roadshows bring product experts and customers together to explore, understand, and solve real business challenges. This year's events in Singapore and Manila were a resounding success, drawing over a hundred participants. Every conversation sparked new ideas, and we hope you walked away as inspired as we did.
 


PMI Kerala: WAVES 2026   

The 16th PMI chapter of Kerala, WAVES 2026, brought together project professionals, business leaders, and innovators from across industries for a day of learning, collaboration, and inspiration. Zoho Projects had a prominent presence at the event where we got to collaborate, network, and engage in meaningful conversations with prospects and customers.
 

PM recommendations 

Too many open tabs? Try our slide-in browser extension! 

We’ve passionately redesigned the Google Chrome extension of Zoho Projects to help users seamlessly move between different portals, projects, tasks, and issues of Zoho Projects without taking up a whole tab in your browser.


Notes

With the new extension you can:
  1. Add, assign, track, and manage tasks and bugs
  2. Record time logs and view running timers
  3. Screen-grab and attach them to bugs and tasks
  4. Use custom views and search to locate tasks or bugs
  5. Stay updated with recent notifications
 Notes


Building extensions in Zoho Sprints 

A series of developer guides to help build new extensions in Zoho Sprints.

To view the previous articles follow Zoho Sprints developer series.
  1. Building extensions #3: Zoho Sprints developer platform features and capabilities
  2. Building extensions #4: Creating seamless integrations with connections
  3. Building extensions #5: Creating custom user interfaces using widgets
 

Beyond task lists 

Acquaint yourself with the customisation capabilities of Zoho Projects.
  1. Bridging the gap between incident management and project delivery

Notes

Did You Know (DYK) series 

Get to know the functional nuances of powerful Zoho Projects' features.
  1. DYK 8: Create Custom Field from List View
  2. DYK 9: Dependent Layout Rule

Key releases 

Zoho Projects has a couple of new updates:

We introduced custom modules in the Zoho Projects Infinity release and now, we’ve equipped it with AI capabilities. Users can now interact with Zia, our in-house AI tool to build custom modules.

Manage customer requests, feedback, and chat by tracking and monitoring them systematically, with the Zoho SalesIQ integration in Zoho Projects.
      
View the complete list of updates and enhancements in Zoho Projects' What's new page.
 
Here’s a roundup of new releases in Zoho Sprints:

We now support Google Meet, a cloud based audio-visual communication tool, right inside MeetingBridge to allow your teams collaborate using your Google accounts.

Create shareable forms to collect information like feature requests, issues, customer feedback, or other details from anyone in the web by hosting the public form URL on your website. Each entry in the form is converted into a work item in your project for seamless tracking and monitoring.

You can now conduct online meetings in Zoho Sprints without the need to choose an external meeting service provider. We support an in-built meeting provider to host online and offline sprint meetings.
 
The Actual vs Planned timesheet report now offers a comparison of the actual hours for sprints and work items against the duration and work hours.

Visit Zoho Sprints' What's New page to view the complete list.
 
We added a new application to Zoho Projects Plus' bundle:

Zoho Learn is a knowledge management and training software that helps teams come together to share knowledge, promote learning, train users, and measure results with assessments. You can now access Learn right inside Zoho Projects Plus offering a holistic hybrid project management experience.
 

Solution corner  

Our solution experts team creates custom functions on demand to meet your unique requirements. Here's a list of recent requests:

Auto-create recurring tasks using Schedule Function

We received an interesting request from a customer wanting a single task to be simultaneously created in multiple projects of their portal. We suggested Schedule Functions and provided a Deluge code to configure in their portal. Refer this post to know the detailed steps to configure this solution.
 

Mandate time logging during task closure

One of our customers wanted to prompt their users with a reminder message to update time logs whenever a task status is updated. This ensures that time tracking for the project is accurate and reflects rightly on the budget. We suggested a CodeX script to solve this requirement.
 
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We build custom solutions to solve unique customer requirements and accommodate personalized requests. If you are looking for customized solutions in Zoho Projects, leave a comment below and our team will reach out to you!
  
We hope all these new additions and enhancements help you manage your projects better. Keep tabs on this space for more such round-ups and updates on our suite of project management tools.
 

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