Here’s a typical situation during a meeting: you are trying to figure out why the project is not progressing and it turns out that James did not do a task since he was waiting for Mike to finish something.

A couple of days ago we decided to make some changes to the sign up form on our website. The task wasn’t that complicated, so there were only a few people involved. After the designer finished his part of the task, it was the programmer who had to take over and then pass the task forward.

In Ancient Greece, a messenger who brought bad news had a chance to end up owning a one-way ticket to the underworld. Or simply saying killed.