An Example

I am responsible for bringing to market a great new product; it’s a super secret project.

However, there is one really important component that I am concerned about, so I need to check on its delivery to make sure it will arrive on schedule. It is the Flux Capacitor.

• Example: “Will we receive the flux capacitor component in the right quantity and at the right time?”
  1. Put that on my task list
  2. But then I need to look up the right contact
  3. Send a few emails
  4. Refer to design documents
  5. Set up meetings
  6. Arrange Travel

That can spread the details about this one task across so many tools.

It can become hard to know were to put information and equally hard to know where to look for that information later.