Project Management Bulletin: October, 2025
Every need leads to innovation. Project Management tools were developed out of sheer necessity to drive large projects. With wide usage, the specifications grew precise, and so did the refinement. Over years we’ve crafted one of the best project management tools, and also evolved with the upcoming trends with Zoho Sprints: our Agile management solution and Zoho Projects Plus: our hybrid management platform.
Over the past couple of months, we've been meeting and gathering insights from our customers and partners through Zoho user group meetups and project management gatherings. Here’s a detailed roundup of our upcoming meetups and recent updates.
Join us at the Zoho Projects Roadshows - USA
The second edition of roadshows in the USA is gearing up to start next week. You can get a chance to learn from our experts, build connections with peer users, and gain more clarity from our interactive sessions. Check out our complete agenda and book your slots here:
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New York City
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27th October, 2025
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Atlanta
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29th October, 2025
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Miami
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05th November, 2025
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San Francisco
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7th November, 2025
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Project management meetups
Zoho Projects User Group meetups
Our user group meetups in the Middle East and Africa regions were a big hit! Passionate Zoho Projects' users from different verticals like construction, consulting, E-commerce, and IT were in attendance. We were able to solve their unique business cases and suggest techniques to enhance their project management experience. Keep a tab on this space to know about our upcoming meetups.
Project Management South Asia Conference 2025
We sponsored the PMI South Asia Conference 2025, in Hyderabad. It was a successful event with over 1000 attendees. Our team of experts showcased the entire PM suite of products through interactive demos. The immersive virtual reality game was the star of the show. It enabled the audience to understand the various products available in the Zoho ecosystem.
APM: Women in Project Management 2025
Association for Project Management organized a conference on project management centred on women with the theme ‘Transform tomorrow’ on the 2nd of October 2025 in London. We hosted a dedicated booth for Zoho Projects and got to engage and network with project professionals, speakers, and exhibitors from multiple global communities.
PM recommendations
Are you currently using a third-party software that is not already integrated with Zoho Projects and finding it time consuming to navigate between apps?
First, we highly recommend you replace your third-party app with a similar Zoho app. We support a wide range of apps and cover major niches with a tight integrations among Zoho apps.
If not, try using our integration with Zoho Flow! Zoho Flow lets you connect apps, build integrations, and manage workflows. Zoho Projects' integration with Zoho Flow allows users to connect Zoho Projects with multiple third-party applications for a unified work experience. Learn more
Key releases
Zoho Projects has rolled out a bunch of interesting features like:
Tasks can now be grouped using custom or default fields for a more focused task management.
We’ve introduced longer URLs fields that support up to 1000 characters in Task Layouts. Users can also convert their short URLs into long URLs.
Task lists from an existing project template can be directly added to a project template.
Zoho Sprints has a lot to offer ensuring all your sprint projects are above par. Here’s the list of new features:
Leave tracker can now be used to manage leave requests and approvals, track individual and team leave records, and get prompt notifications for requests and approvals.
Admins can stop the timer automatically, blocking users from adding work hours to the timesheet after a set time. Admins can also mandate users to add log hours only through timers, restricting manual entries.
We’ve introduced an expense module to allow users to track and categorize project expenses. You can add recurring expenses that can be automated based on set frequencies.
You can import your objectives and key results into your workspace from XLS, CSV, or JSON files, and also map the file fields with Zoho Sprints fields.
Additionally, we’ve added Regex support for single line custom field, improved the scope of Rollup functionality, and included cluster tags to group multiple tags. View the complete feature list for the quarter Q3.
Productivity tips
We post periodic tips and tricks to introduce new features to our users. Here's a compilation of the latest tips:
- How to track and manage schedule changes in Zoho Projects
- Schedule exports for regular project updates in Zoho Projects
- Integrate Zoho Sprints with Xero to manage your financial operations
- Custom tags and cluster tags in Zoho Sprints
- How manufacturing analytics can transform your enterprise with Zoho Projects Plus
- AI-driven construction analytics using Zoho Projects Plus
- Create advanced slideshows with hybrid reports using Zoho Projects Plus
Solution corner
Each project is unique and has precise requirements. We work hard to make sure all your requirements are met while using Zoho Projects. Here’s a list of the recent customer requests that were solved by our solution expert team.
Automatically associate teams to tasks based on owner
A customer approached us with the requirement to update the team field automatically when an owner is selected for the task. We created and implemented this with task custom functions and workflow rules. Check out this post for the script.
Track delays even after a task is closed
We received an interesting request to help track tasks that are closed after they areoverdue. Say, a task is closed after its due date, the customer wanted a custom status ‘Delayed & Closed’ to be updated as the task’s status. Here’s the custom function we suggested to achieve this requirement.
Automated weekly notifications for unapproved timesheets
One of our customers wanted to send email notifications to the project owner every week, detailing all the unapproved timesheets associated with their projects. To automate this weekly email, we suggested schedule functions. Refer to this post to view the complete script.
Set task scores based on completion
A customer wanted to set up a fun scoring card for each task based on how quickly a task is completed. Here’s the scoring scale:
Task completed on or before the due date- 100 points
3 days late- 70 points
6 days late- 40 points
9 days late- 10 points
10+ days late- 0 points
Here’s how we implemented this with custom fields, custom functions, and workflow rules.
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 we will reach out to you!
We hope all our new additions and enhancements help you manage your projects better. Keep tab on this space for more such round-ups and updates on our suite of project management tools.
Cheers,
Zoho Projects Suite