A few of us on the team are developing a new project/team management platform called “eddie”. It’s a web-based project and time tracking system that in many ways functions just like other project tracking systems. The key difference is that at its heart is a rhythm/time evaluation tool called the “life-o-meter” that gives an individual/sub-team/organizational view of individual morale, productivity and time use. The goal of this is to be able to track and trace patterns of productivity and morale over seasons. It also enables the leaders of the organization to adjust the “thermostat” during certain seasons to allow for more or less freedom and to regulate rhythmic productivity.
I will write more as we get closer to rolling it out.
Here are a few pictures from my “wall-o-dry-erase-board.” (One wall of my office is completely covered with magnetic dry-erase…)
In this interview, 
March 13th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
It was interesting that you called it “Eddie”. At work we had the driest project imaginable a new HR system ! Instead of a project we called it Bob…progress was measured on a height chart..and in a photo album, to look back on …Bob spoke to the company via mail to introduce himself and he was seen as the newest member of the HR department. It brought the project to life - literally.People actually became emotionally attached to him ! When the new system launched it was seen as friendly, there to help not just a new system