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Tasks and approvals

Tasks, tickets and approvals, going to the right person

Work assigned and tracked, requests raised against a queue, and anything that needs a yes waiting for whoever is meant to give it.

Tasks
With steps, priorities and a board
Tickets
Raised against a team’s queue
Approvals
Waiting for you, in one place
Nobody
Approves their own request

What it does

Tasks with steps

Give somebody in your line a task, break it into steps and watch them ticked off. A board and a report show where everything stands.

Priorities, tags, projects, a board, repeats and time

New Mark a task low, normal, high or urgent — shown as a word and a shape, never only a colour. Give it tags, put it in a project, and filter or search the list by any of them. See the same tasks as a list or as a board with To do, In progress and Done columns, and drag a card across (or choose Move to… if you would rather not drag). A task that comes round — every day, every weekday, every week or every month — makes the next one the moment you finish it, once. Log the time you spent on it, and see the total.

Tickets for the teams that help

IT, HR, facilities: people raise a request against a team’s queue, and it goes to whoever picks it up.

Approvals that find their person

Leave, overtime and anything else your company says needs a yes goes to the person meant to give it, and waits under Waiting for you.

Activity in one list

What changed, what was decided and what is waiting for you — in one place, not in twelve emails.

Ask to buy something, and see it answered

New “Can I buy a card reader for 1,500 EGP?” Say what and why, in the currency your company spends in, and attach the receipt or a quote. It goes to your manager the way time off does — and to whoever covers them while they are away. They answer it, you are told, and finance marks it paid, and you are told again. Your manager sees what their people have asked for, waiting first; finance sees what is approved and not yet paid, with a total for each currency and a spreadsheet.

A handbook, and a first week that is a checklist

New Write how your company works once — sections of pages everybody reads, with an updated date when one changes. Then give a new person their first week as a list: the laptop is IT’s step, the welcome chat is their manager’s, and each is told. The new person and their manager see how far along it is; the colleague at the next desk sees none of it.

Goals, with a bar that fills

New Say what you are working towards — a checklist of key results, or a number from where you started to where you want to be — and tick it off or move it as you go. A bar shows how far along it is, and a short dated note each time keeps the history. Your manager, and their manager, can read it; a colleague at your level cannot. A team or company goal shows the average of the goals under it.

Set a goal for somebody, and know when one is going wrong

New A manager can set a goal for the people who report to them, and they are told. Only the person it is for moves it — ticks it, updates it, and says whether it is on track, at risk or off track — and when they say it is at risk or off track, their manager is told, once.

Good to know

  • Tasks are given to people in your own reporting line.
  • New Projects and tags only group tasks: who can see a task is still decided by who reports to whom, so a colleague at your level sees none of yours even if they share a project. A task your manager gave you keeps the priority and repeat they set; you can still tag it and put it in a project. A repeating task needs a due date to count from. Time you log is yours: only you can take an entry away.
  • A request never lands with the person who made it.
  • Approving something removes it from Waiting for you, for everybody who was asked.
  • New Nobody answers or marks paid their own request. The person at the very top of a company, who has nobody to ask, is recorded as approved at once and the other administrators are told. A receipt is a PDF or a picture, up to 10 MB, and is read only by the people who may read the request.
  • New Administrators write the handbook, and so can the people an administrator names. A page is plain text — paragraphs and bullet points — with no pictures or tables yet. Somebody given one step of a first week sees that step and not the rest of the list.
  • New A goal is read by the person it is for, the people above them and administrators — and by everybody once an administrator makes it the company’s. Nobody sets a goal for their own manager, and a goal that was set for you is changed by whoever set it, not by you. Goals are put away, never deleted, and the history of notes cannot be rewritten.

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