What it asks of you
Nothing that is not already your job. You stop re-keying facts other systems already hold.
For a post coordinator
The status chase ends
Most of your day goes on asking people for updates and retyping the answers into a tracker that is out of date by the time you finish.
Nobody has to be chased for a status
Cards move because work was opened and finished. There is no round of messages to collect what already happened.
One list instead of six tabs
Episodes, packages, deliverables and tasks are the same system, so nothing has to be reconciled between sheets.
Delivery is per destination
Each endpoint has its own spec, owner and due date, so "delivered" never quietly means delivered to one of five places.
The question that stops
“"Has anyone heard back from Standards?" — and the four messages it takes to find out.”
Everyone else
It has to be worth something to every link, or it gets abandoned
A board only stays true if the people upstream and downstream of you are also getting something out of it. Here is what it does for them.
- Post SupervisorStop being the place answers live
- Post ProducerSee the whole season without a status meeting
- EditorBe told what is yours, then left alone
- Assistant EditorStop being asked for the same file twice
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- Captioning / LocalizationOne place that says what is ready and what is cleared
- Standards & PracticesYour note is attached to the episode, not an inbox
- Showrunner / EPOne screen, no status meeting
- Line Producer / UPMSee post from the production side
- Network / DeliveryKnow what shipped, where, and whether it passed
- IT / EngineeringNothing new is exposed to the internet
See it on a real board
The demo is the actual software on a made-up show. Open it and look at the part that is yours.
Walkthroughs are with Kevin Kelsey — 15 years an assistant editor, Children's & Family Emmy-nominated, and the person who built this. More about him.