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About the Task Management Subproject

This Subproject aims at realizing an integrated task management support for the individual knowledge worker in a networked environment. The support for individual task management must be embedded in the user’s personal desktop and has to tackle * ad-hoc task planning and flexible changes, * collaborative work on task, * knowledge-intensive tasks with a huge amount of personal as well as group information objects, and * integration into organizational processes.

The task management support has to respect and adapt to the users working style, e.g., using emails, ToDo?-tools, checklists, or informal notes to keep track of their work. Therefore, these means have to be integrated in order to be accepted by users.

Deliverables

• D3.1 Task Management Model: Dec 2006 (DFKI, SAP) - submitted and accepted
• D3.2 First Task Management Prototype: Dec 2007 (SAP, DFKI) - in progress
• D3.3 Second Task Management Prototype: Dec 2008 (DFKI, SAP)

Architecture

Components Overview

Somecomponent?

• Personal Task Management
  • Task management first needs to address the needs of the individual knowledge worker. The Personal Task Management services form the underlying layer for all task management within Nepomuk. These include:
    • core task management services e.g. create and retrieve tasks
      • support for task resources and relations between these resources e.g. attaching emails and files to task; tagging tasks
      • task history logs e.g. rationale behind decisions
      • time management
• Social Task Management
  • The social aspects of task management is primarily concerned with supporting the collaboration between knowledge workers towards a shared goal. Here, the task represents a concrete activity which embodies this goal and shapes the interactions between participants. One of the key challenges is to realise collaborative task activities in a manner that is consistent with personal task activities and not to impose a totally different model of working. The functionality provided include:
    • Task delegation and transfer
      • Synchronisation of tasks across personal semantic desktops

Someothercomponent

• TODO: Task Pattern Management

How to help

• The Task Management codebase is currently not opened to the public
• "getting started" information for Task Management developers only
  • [TaskManagementHowTo?] (general development guide)

Contact

• Main developers of D3.2
  • SAP: Gary Marrs, Ying Du, James Conway, Ernie Ong
  • DFKI: Marko Brunzel, Leo Sauermann
• also provide a direct mail address of someone accepting patches