Hi all, I'm looking for a tool, and I haven't found it yet. It may or may not exist, but I figure that if it does, there's a chance someone on this list has seen it and maybe even used it.
I've recently started a new $JOB, and I am now in the fun position of being half management/half technical. Which means I need to keep track of and manage my own tasks and projects, but I also need to at least track the work of 4-5 other people as well (although they are, for the most part, senior staff and don't need very detailed tracking). I've taken a few passes at trying to capture what I call my "radar screen": all of the "blips" that I need to be aware of and check on regularly. Some of these are things I need to do, some are things one of my staff is doing and I just need to make sure it's moving along. Some of them are things that we're waiting on someone else to do for us before we can begin our work. So, in a way it's task management on steroids, but in a way it isn't. I don't expect my staff to necessarily interact with the tool I'm using, so I'm not really looking for a group/collaborative task/project management tool exactly. I've looked at Hiveminder, Redmine, JIRA, RT, as well as a whole bunch of task management applications that would run locally on my Mac. Nothing quite seems to fit what I have in mind. Ideally, I'd like to have something that can report on the stuff that's been marked "done" over a period of time, so that if I'm called to give a status report to my management I can readily have at hand not only my own accomplishments but the group's. I could probably bend one of the task managers or project management suites into what I want, but they all feel a bit awkward, like I'm trying to whittle a square peg to fit an elliptical hole. Can anyone think of something out there that might fit the bill? I'd be happy with web-based tools or something I can run locally on my Mac. A local Windows-only application would be suboptimal, but I wouldn't rule it out if it was otherwise perfect. Thanks! Christopher Manly c...@cornell.edu<mailto:c...@cornell.edu>
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