Hack:
Task Tracker

By sanjith yeruva

December 11, 2010 at 9:33am

Count on it

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Reinvent the means of control

Summary

I propose to develop a digital performance tool that could revolutionize the way we run the offices now. The idea is to develop a software application that will serve as a digital history of all the project.s in an organization. The digital history is christened “Task Tracker".

Problem

The idea is based on a simple question. If you were to judge a football team what would you do? You check out the individual performance history and follow their effort over time. If you consider an organization to be a team, how can you critically judge the contribution of employees in specific tasks? How would you identify shortcomings and introduce changes for better productivity? How would you cut losses and bring in innovation? Overwhelmingly one has to depend on the human judgment which is usually based on internal audits, performance reports, reviews and other evaluations. There is no digital way of doing assessing an employee’s contribution, performance their strengths and weakness. In almost every organization every employee is plugged in to computers at one point or another. Building on this, I propose to develop a digital performance tool that would revolutionize the way we run the offices now. The central idea is to develop software that will be a digital history of a project.

Solution

I propose to develop a digital performance tool that would revolutionize the way we run the offices now. The central idea is to develop software that will be a digital history of a project. The digital history (like DVD of a football match) for every given project undertaken in an organization is christened “Task Tracker". Task tracker will automatically organize all the communication (emails, Phone) between the employees with regard to a specific task. Every task will have a blue print consisting of variables including a “Task value”, “Task priority level” and “Task goal”. Task tracker will collate this information and funnel them through a tracking processing algorithm to come up with a digital history of every task .The digital history will be in a lucid info graphic style and would be dynamic as well. The digital history can be viewed by the top management to get a big picture of the projects and sense the ground realities in the organization.

Practical Impact

Task Tracker has man functionalities.

§ Digital history of a project from its inception to its completion

§ Visualize the evolution of a project at any point.,

§ View the players and their performance.

§ Aid in fair evaluation of the employees

§ Comprehend the status of a given project in a digital way, compare performances of related projects and plan for future projects/

§ Avail the big picture of the project status to the team players in terms of their role and get a sense of what they need to do to better their performance. Digitally driven Task tracker will incorporate a heighted sense of credibility, reliability and accountability in an organization ultimately enhancing the performance and satisfaction of the employees.

First Steps

A quick and dirty test can be easily perfomed by picking up a sample project built in Tasktraacker.
The organization will just need to submit the number of people that would involve in a specific project along with the heirarchy.

Credits

Aruna sree.Bheemireddy

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