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GTD for Teams - How do you get started?
Merlin Also | Jan 31 2006
One of the most common questions I get -- an email that I receive probably three times each week -- has to do with using Getting Things Done in the context of an office or a team. Specifically, how do you non-obnoxiously improve the habits and culture of a team that isn't drinking the GTD Kool-Aid? Anyone have success stories about improving team communication and workflow after getting into GTD? How do you deal with colleagues' bad work habits? WHere do you meet resistance and how do you get past it? 4 Comments
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 We built Mentat for this very reason!Submitted by Autarchist on October 12, 2007 - 11:40am.
We wanted a way to collaborate on projects and all use GTD style methods, while staying in communication on task status. At first we tried a mix of programs and ended up very disconnected and it was more work to manage, so we finally built our own. Mentat is made to let you capture tasks from your desk, mobile, phone or wherever, and file them away speedily..but also lets you assign tasks to team members, add comments, status updates, etc. So if someone is on your project team, they have access to the same task lists. They add one, you see it, vice versa. When a task is closed or reassigned, a comment window pops up to let you tell the task owner or anyone following the task know what's up. It's really been a boost for our productivity and remedied a lot of pains so we recently went live with it as a web service: Check it out with a free trial or personal account if you want & try it for your team GTD methods if you like it! » POSTED IN:
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