NEXT GENERATION OF WEB-BASED TASK MANAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS

Radical changes in our industrial environment request new IT solutions for collaborative task management in distributed teams wherein team members are essentially involved in the process management and responsible for its progress. This paper presents some history aspects of workflow system development and resulting requirements for the SAGE platform, a system that provides functions to support lightweight distributed engineering processes by collaborative task management. There is a need for the development of new solutions for self-organized cooperative task management and group awareness by combining approaches from software engineering with workflow technology and CSCW methods.