TM.AN: COMMANDING THE POWER OF COLLABORATIVE TASK MANAGEMENT

Zoheir Ezziane, Naoufel Werghi, Bader Maktari

2004

Abstract

The fundamental driving force behind any business, no matter of its size is the generation of tasks. The logical grouping of these tasks into business processes has cause the phenomenal development of software packages to meet the need of natural internal business evolution, which is evident by the mass number of business applications available on the market today. However this paper will try to single out a specific area that has not received as great amount of application development attention, due to its in-between nature. The TM.AN (Task Management and Administrative Notification) application focuses on this unlit area by developing/outlining the needed features to encourage a more task oriented culture, thereby exploiting its applied benefits. This paper, describes the concepts that inspired the development of TM.AN such as the lack of information/progress sharing between employees and the design principles for instance the development of a structure to capture performance information from employee, task and customer entities.

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in Harvard Style

Ezziane Z., Werghi N. and Maktari B. (2004). TM.AN: COMMANDING THE POWER OF COLLABORATIVE TASK MANAGEMENT . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 268-274. DOI: 10.5220/0001380502680274


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icete04,
author={Zoheir Ezziane and Naoufel Werghi and Bader Maktari},
title={TM.AN: COMMANDING THE POWER OF COLLABORATIVE TASK MANAGEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={268-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001380502680274},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - TM.AN: COMMANDING THE POWER OF COLLABORATIVE TASK MANAGEMENT
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Ezziane Z.
AU - Werghi N.
AU - Maktari B.
PY - 2004
SP - 268
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0001380502680274