If you are lucky enough to have someone to delegate to, then OfficeTalk provides a great way to manage tasks that you assign to other people. Tasks may be entered into either your personal task list or added to an OfficeTalk project, which is a Gantt view of related tasks. In both cases you can assign tasks to other OfficeTalk users or to anyone with an email address.
When you assign a task to someone, they receive an email containing a description of the task and any instructions that you have added to accompany the task assignment. If you assigned the task to an OfficeTalk user, the task will automatically be added into their task list as soon as they have opened the email.
Now here's the cool thing: OfficeTalk will automatically track any changes made by the assignee to the completion status of the task and will display the status on the original task in your task list, or in the OfficeTalk project. It even works for non-OfficeTalk users. They simply reply to the task assignment email, specifying whether they have fully or partially completed the task. This means that you can assign a list of tasks to various people and then just sit back and watch the tasks as they get worked on and ultimately become marked as completed or become overdue.
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