Do you ever have a feeling that you’ve spent the entire day sorting out other people’s problems? Have you ever asked yourself the question ‘Why is it that I’m running out of time while my subordinates are running out of work?’

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.

I stayed in the office till late to sort out some things before an important event. I was about to close the office but apparently I was not the last one. Shawn, our developer, was absorbed in his work and didn’t seem like going home anytime soon.

In this article we’d like to talk about smart and efficient task assignment. It doesn’t seem like a complicated thing to do but the importance of it both for managers and project teams is hard to be underestimated.