ABSTRACT
Working in large and geographically distributed business organizations and government agencies requires that individuals and groups at different sites engage in intensive cooperative activity. Business teams are formed from different parts of an organization, and agencies in noncentralized government settings have to cooperate over large distances. Consequently, the development of a flexible and integrated coordination support tool, which is to a high degree end-user controlled, was taken up in the Assisting Computer Project. The increasing need for the management of distributed work makes the support of coordination an important assistance property that future computer systems should provide to the users. Computers in the form of personal computers interconnected by computer networks have become a device used daily by many people in nearly all areas of business and at home. The Task Manager is a software system for specifying and managing cooperative activity in a community of geographically dispersed users.
