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Looking for a solution

Yves Larouche

2006-01-26, 6:57 pm

Hi,

Before we start developping a home solution, I'm looking around to see if
there's already something that suits our needs on the market.

What we need is a software to help us manage and follow our employees with
their tasks. We would assign tasks to a position or to an employee and when
the task is done, the employee marks it as finished in the system. We
thought about giving each task a value and a due date, a high importance
task, like locking the door after closing the store, might have a value of
10 while a minor task like emptying the trash bin could be evaluated as a 2
so we can see if our employees, or a department, or a branch do their
assigned tasks or if they lack something to help them get over their tasks
more efficiently. The points would add up when the due date is past.

We thought the system could work hierarchically, every entity can be
assigned a task or another entity for which they have a responsability.

For example, the store manager have these tasks:
- Make sure nobody's in the store anymore
- Closing the lights
- Locking the door after closing the store

and he has these entities under him:
- Assistant manager
- Head cashier
- Delivry department

The assistant manager would also have a number of assigned tasks, the head
cashier as well. They could also have a number of entites under them or not.
The manager has the responsability to complete his tasks and to make sure
entities under him do their respective tasks. He can evaluate this by
looking how high the total points of the undone past due tasks under his
management. He could eventually drill down to see where the problem is
coming from.

That's about it. Of course there are a number of details I didn't mention
like that the tasks could be assigned to an entity, they can be transferred,
suspended, they can happen only once or can be repeated on a scedule or they
can synchronize with an employee's working schedule, entities can be one
person or a group of persons, an employee can be in multiple entities, and
so on.

If anyone has an idea for a solution that looks, even by far, to what I'm
looking for, please let me know.

Thanks

Yves Larouche

Lawrence Garvin

2006-01-27, 6:56 pm

What's wrong with Exchange server and Outlook 2003???

"Yves Larouche" <yves_(no_underscores)_Larouche@liamtoh.moc> wrote in
message news:ebkooErIGHA.676@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Before we start developping a home solution, I'm looking around to see if
> there's already something that suits our needs on the market.
>
> What we need is a software to help us manage and follow our employees with
> their tasks. We would assign tasks to a position or to an employee and
> when the task is done, the employee marks it as finished in the system. We
> thought about giving each task a value and a due date, a high importance
> task, like locking the door after closing the store, might have a value of
> 10 while a minor task like emptying the trash bin could be evaluated as a
> 2 so we can see if our employees, or a department, or a branch do their
> assigned tasks or if they lack something to help them get over their tasks
> more efficiently. The points would add up when the due date is past.
>
> We thought the system could work hierarchically, every entity can be
> assigned a task or another entity for which they have a responsability.
>
> For example, the store manager have these tasks:
> - Make sure nobody's in the store anymore
> - Closing the lights
> - Locking the door after closing the store
>
> and he has these entities under him:
> - Assistant manager
> - Head cashier
> - Delivry department
>
>
> The assistant manager would also have a number of assigned tasks, the head
> cashier as well. They could also have a number of entites under them or
> not. The manager has the responsability to complete his tasks and to make
> sure entities under him do their respective tasks. He can evaluate this by
> looking how high the total points of the undone past due tasks under his
> management. He could eventually drill down to see where the problem is
> coming from.
>
> That's about it. Of course there are a number of details I didn't mention
> like that the tasks could be assigned to an entity, they can be
> transferred, suspended, they can happen only once or can be repeated on a
> scedule or they can synchronize with an employee's working schedule,
> entities can be one person or a group of persons, an employee can be in
> multiple entities, and so on.
>
> If anyone has an idea for a solution that looks, even by far, to what I'm
> looking for, please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Yves Larouche
>

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