7 posts tagged “Task Management Tips for Teams”
Working with clients, contractors and partner companies leads to mix-ups more easily, because they don’t share your background. This article explains how to write requests and review requests, how to choose your words, and how to decide what to show.
Are “Not started, In progress, Done” enough? This article covers how many task statuses to have, rules for who changes them and when, examples by type of work, and how to write progress reports around what’s done, what’s remaining and what’s next.
Saying OK, asking questions, sending work back, reporting it done: in task comments, the basic rule is the conclusion first and your request last. This article covers how to write for each situation, how to say difficult things, and templates you can use as is. For teams that want less back-and-forth.
“Let’s all work on it” and “ASAP” are how work stalls. With examples from any industry, this article explains why each task needs one assignee and how to choose them, how to set due dates people keep by giving a date and a reason, and how to rewrite “ASAP” and “urgent.”
Tasks that are too big hide how far along they are; tasks that are too small take more effort to enter and update than they’re worth. Using trade show preparation as an example, this article gives a rule of thumb for the right task size and steps for breaking work down.
Get fewer “What happened with that?” and “That’s not what I meant.” Keep the title to what needs doing, and put the purpose, the steps, the definition of done and the materials in the description. Includes a template you can use as is.
When you start entering work into a management tool, the first question is how to group it. Using examples from any industry, this article explains how to split projects by job, by department or by period, and what to go by when you aren’t sure.
