TaskTrain
Keep your team on track
Integrate your standard operating procedures into everyday workflow as actionable assignments.
With my annoying affection for alliteration, how could I not take the opportunity to propound proper #process and #procedure and talk up TaskTrain on the Systems Simplified podcast?!
Building on positive response from SMB process consultants at whom the program is targeted, we launched a generous TaskTrain Referral Partner Program to reward partners who help us achieve our mission of bringing #ProcessToThePeople.
All systems were definitely "go" for my "All Systems Go!" podcast interview discussing the role of #StandardOperatingProcedures in ensuring organizational #Efficiency and #OperationalExcellence—and how TaskTrain integrates those #SOPs into everyday workflow. Thanks to the great Chris L Davis, MBA of Automation Bridge for a highly enjoyable and hopefully edifying conversation!
[Recorded 16-September-2021]
TaskTrain's enhanced Zapier integration has been promoted out of beta to full public status, enabling any anyone to find TaskTrain in Zapier's public catalog and integrate TaskTrain with any of its 3,000+ other app integrations.
TaskTrain's enhanced Zapier integration has been accepted for public publishing on our first submission attempt, enabling any anyone to find TaskTrain in Zapier's public catalog and integrate TaskTrain with any of its 3,000+ other app integrations.
Wonderful to “wonk out” on #workflows with another passionate systems and process professional, Marquis Murray of Ditto! [Recorded 4-November-2020]
Grateful for the opportunity to tell a bit of the TaskTrain startup story and consider how the "future of biztech" and its increasing democratization of technology aligns with our mission to bring #ProcessToThePeople in this The Future of BizTech podcast interview. [Recorded 11-September-2020]
Shared this "Show HN" post to Hacker News …
WHAT IT IS
TaskTrain is a simple process management SaaS application designed for service teams in small and medium businesses. TaskTrain lets you take those unread standard operating procedures off of the company intranet and make them actionable.WHY I MADE IT
TaskTrain was sparked by my experience running IT service departments:
•I hired smart, dedicated techs.
•We developed standard operating procedures.
•But we still screwed up … way too often …
… because we had a lot of multi-step workflows and the time pressures of users needing things done quickly. So the standard operating procedures too often sat unread on a shelf in the midst of actually carrying out the work. And, because human attention & memory are limited, we would often forget a step. And that avoidable oversight would inevitably come back to bite us. TaskTrain tries to address this problem of avoidable errors and inefficient execution in routine service delivery.WHAT IT DOES
The idea behind TaskTrain is super-simple:
•TaskTrain lets you define all of your standard operating procedures as multi-level outlines, with each step holding optional embedded training like videos, product manuals, links to relevant resources, and explanatory text.
•You share these with your team via secure Procedure Manuals. Every time the need arises, you assign an instance of the Procedure. A TaskTrain Assignment is like a work order but with all of the tasks identified and just-in-time training resources embedded.
•Each Task in an Assignment can have its own assignee, start and due dates, and comment threads, making it easy to track progress and collaborate with teammates without resorting to e-mail or Slack, increasing coordination efficiency and avoiding missed hand-offs.WHAT I USED
TaskTrain is written in TypeScript as an Angular Progressive Web Application communicating via (Apollo) GraphQL to a Node.JS server backed by a MongoDB store.HOW TO TRY
Head to https://TaskTrain.app and press Sign Up Free to register a free-forever account and poke around. Thanks, HN!
We closed out our public βeta with the release of real-time, server-push updates, enabling instant data synchronization across multiple client connections, ensuring Assignment status is always up-to-date, and turning Comment Threads into real-time, in-app, threaded chat! 🎉 Happy New Year!
Honored to have gotten nothing but praise from the judges on our TaskTrain speed pitch at the culminating session of the Fall 2020 Venture Café New England Launch! Pre-Accelerator. Learned a little and made some solid connections through the program. Thanks, Innovation Studio!