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Project Management Applications of Tasks and Issues Lists

Project managers and team leads tend to get excited by the idea of using the tasks and issues lists for assigning tasks to members of their team and tracking them in SharePoint. When properly understood, these lists can be helpful, but a couple points should be made first. Although tasks lists can be used to assign tasks to specific individuals, those individuals are not alerted unless they have alerts set up within the list or are actively keeping an eye on the tasks assigned to them when they are using an Office 2003 application that has the Shared Workspace task pane in it, paying attention to the Tasks tab in particular. There also isn't a way “out of the box” to link SharePoint tasks ...