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A project manager is always watching/tracking any potential ‘schedule risks’.  You can track/identify some types of risk looking at milestone status, how many tickets/tasks completed, how many tasks not yet done relative to available time, etc.  These are quantitative indicators. However, there are other  ‘qualitative’ indicators of ‘schedule risks. One of the ‘qualitative’ indicator of schedule risk is ‘multi tasking’.

If your team members are ‘multi tasking’ then chances are high that you may miss the next deadline. Check a few articles on problems of multi tasking

1. Multi-Tasking: Why projects take so long and still go late
2. Multitasking Madness Decreases Productivity
3. Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
4. Just search for ‘multitasking productivity‘ or ‘project multitasking‘

If multitasking is such a serious risk, then obviously a project manager needs a some quick way to detect this risk.

Using BootStrapToday, you can quickly identify if you are facing the risk of multi-tasking in your project. Just check the Project Dashboard, ‘who is doing what‘ section. This section describes, which user is working on what ticket/task ? It displays  ‘in-progress’ tasks as button. So the user who has 3 or more buttons in front of his name is probably multi tasking.  Its a good idea to check with him. May be he has already finished a task but not marked it as resolved or closed. In that case, there is no serious risk. However, he may actually be working on 5 tasks simultaneously and this can cause serious problems to project schedule.

Using BootStrapToday-Who is Doing What to detect multi tasking