![]() ![]() DropTask’s (Ayoa’s) visual style not only made it very easy to explain to everyone how it worked and why we should have it, but it also made all our staff enthusiastic to start entering their own work. Soon afterwards, we projected DropTask (Ayoa) onto our meeting room wall and demonstrated it to everyone in the company. It seemed to have startlingly good reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. However, as Director of Technology, I then stumbled across something called DropTask (Ayoa) and it instantly “rocked my boat” from a visual point of view. We scoured Google for a system that would work well for our needs and in the process we tried out quite a few fairly conventional systems across the world, most of which left us very unconvinced. The agile task board showing user story and task progress. 49 T Tamarack Electric Boat Company, 115 Target organic flour sack towels, 16 Tasco Woodsman Forestry System 6000, 237 Taskboard, 369 Tax-free bond. But being architects we’re slightly obtuse, and we instinctively respond better to very visual organizational tools – rather than just very long lists! We realized we needed a tool that would make task management more transparent, auditable and accessible to all. It wasn’t the most perfect way of doing things at all, and tended to be knee-jerk reactive rather than properly planned.Įvery employee was keeping a manual “to-do” list in an effectively private notebook… We would go round the room allowing each person to announce what they needed to do most urgently We would then try to assimilate this information – and within the same meeting, find the best way to achieve and resource the task. Until 2 years ago, our normal business practice was to have a full team meeting every Monday where we would go round the room allowing each person to announce what they needed to do most urgently. It was in this context that we became frustrated with our old-task management system where every employee was keeping a manual “to-do” list in an effectively private notebook. ![]() Hold the shape with string or rubber bands until dry. Yet when sprayed lightly with water on both sides, it becomes pliable and can be formed into 3D shapes. Taskboard is rigid, stays flat, and won’t curl when dry. Being light weight, it is extremely easy to cut. “In 2012 we found ourselves overwhelmed with new projects at the tail-end of the recession. Taskboard is an ultralight wood fiber board. Since signing up in the summer of 2013, DropTask (Ayoa) has not only improved the day to day internal running of the business, but has added a level of enthusiasm and engagement amongst staff exceeding anything he could have ever hoped for… Philip Durban is the Director of Technology at Hudson Architects a twenty-person award-winning architectural practice designing contemporary buildings throughout the UK and worldwide.
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