Hasta La Ideas

Fantastic job tracker implementation. If you’ve ever worked in a big agency, keeping track of job flow is one of the biggest issues you face on a daily basis.

Quoted from Alex Bogusky’s Posterous blog:

Keeping track of all the jobs flowing through is a challenge for every agency. For about a year we’ve been fantasizing about a huge status board that was accessible to the whole shop. Something that was live and constantly updating. Like the arrivals and departures in Grand Central Station. Unfortunately, the status of “Project Ticker” has been ON HOLD for about 9 months and then I looked up yesterday and it was done. Man, it is really cool. Here’s what Director of Integrated Production, Dave Rolfe, has to say about it:

“The ProjectTicker is the real-time inventory of all of the jobs active in the Integrated department. It can be filtered by job due date, by account, by job-type (video, interactive, experiential, internal prods), by completion status, by CD or by producer. It also features a status bar that indicates the completion status of the job. All of this is automatically updated through our existent jobflow status process. So not only is it a thing of pride for the agency— in terms of the volume of work flow, accountability for that, and the diversity of jobs— but it also helps to highlight the importance of documentation on production status. Plus it is poised to truly demonstrate momentum. The Ticker will be manageable via a kiosk as well, which will be positioned at the front of the department, and the view-type can be adjusted by anyone.”

Now if I can only get one of these for my personal life.