Org-mode tricks for team management

Org-mode tricks for team management

[Juan Reyero]

Greetings,

I have been using org-mode as a key support for my work as a manager
for quite a while now.  I thought some of the tricks and processes for
keeping up-to-date with the work of each person in my team might be of
interest to other people, so I wrote them up at:

http://juanreyero.com/article/emacs/org-teams.html

In summary, it is a simple way to keep track of TODO items associated
to other people, query them, and add context to your notes (who is
with you, where your are, and the time).  The key idea is to ask emacs
to remember these things, and use the extra state to automate agenda
queries and quick tagging.

I am very grateful to Carsten and all the people contributing to
org-mode and this list.  It's made a great positive impact in my work.

Best,

Juan
---
http://juanreyero.com

Re: Org-mode tricks for team management

[Torsten Wagner]

Hi Juan,

> 
> http://juanreyero.com/article/emacs/org-teams.html
> 

This solution is very nice. I would encourage you to pack it into an own 
contrib for org-mode. Maybe even trying to merge it into org-mode itself.

Please also consider to check out how this could be worked together with org-
mobile. As far as I understood you are going to have beside the normal agenda 
views a place and person sensitive agenda. This makes even more sens on mobile 
devices. 

#+ dream-mode on
All those smart-phones have GPS now. It would be incredible awesome if the GPS 
location could be used to define the place automatically :) Even send alarm 
messages... (This idea was discussed at the OpenMoko-Community (position-
sensitive alarm)
#+ dream-mode off

Best regards,

Totti

Re: Org-mode tricks for team management

[Juan Reyero]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://juanreyero.com/article/emacs/org-teams.html
>>
> This solution is very nice. I would encourage you to pack it into an own
> contrib for org-mode. Maybe even trying to merge it into org-mode itself.

Thanks a lot.  I'd be happy to pack it into a contrib file, if Carsten
agrees.  Following your suggestion in a comment to the document it'd
be called "org-secretary".

> Please also consider to check out how this could be worked together with org-
> mobile. As far as I understood you are going to have beside the normal agenda
> views a place and person sensitive agenda. This makes even more sens on mobile
> devices.

I actually tried it out as soon as org-mobile became available for the
iphone.  It almost worked, but not quite.  I could however check out
the tasks for everybody in the agenda view in the iphone, which was
nice.

> #+ dream-mode on
> All those smart-phones have GPS now. It would be incredible awesome if the GPS
> location could be used to define the place automatically :) Even send alarm
> messages... (This idea was discussed at the OpenMoko-Community (position-
> sensitive alarm)
> #+ dream-mode off

That'd be neat...

Best regards,

Juan
-- 
http://juanreyero.com/
http://unarueda.com

Re: Org-mode tricks for team management

[Daniel Martins]

Amazing work


Keep us up-to-date

I have intention to use a similar approach in my University

Daniel

2009/12/3 Juan Reyero <joanmg@gmail.com>:
> Greetings,
>
> I have been using org-mode as a key support for my work as a manager
> for quite a while now.  I thought some of the tricks and processes for
> keeping up-to-date with the work of each person in my team might be of
> interest to other people, so I wrote them up at:
>
> http://juanreyero.com/article/emacs/org-teams.html
>
> In summary, it is a simple way to keep track of TODO items associated
> to other people, query them, and add context to your notes (who is
> with you, where your are, and the time).  The key idea is to ask emacs
> to remember these things, and use the extra state to automate agenda
> queries and quick tagging.
>
> I am very grateful to Carsten and all the people contributing to
> org-mode and this list.  It's made a great positive impact in my work.
>
> Best,
>
> Juan
> ---
> http://juanreyero.com
>
>
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