Chapter 9

Glossary

Term	Meaning
The line	The organization chart: everyone under exactly one manager. Determines seeing (your own branch, all layers deep) and handing out (any layer below yours).
Action	A piece of work that one person ticks off, with owner and deadline.
Owner	The person who has the work now and ticks it off.
Creator	Whoever created the action; can always keep watching.
Responsible person	Whoever stands above the owner in the line and oversees the work.
Passing on	The owner passes the action to someone in a layer below them.
Reassigning	A responsible person moves work from above, for example in case of illness.
Splitting up	Hanging actions under an action; that makes it a project.
Project	An action with actions underneath it. Nestable without limit.
Timeline	The fixed history of an action or project: who did what, when.
Series	A recurring meeting; every time is an episode.
Report of the previous time	The automatic overview per episode: subjects, decisions and open actions from the series.
Mail days	The days on which someone receives mail from DeciDesk; the rest is bundled.
Archive	Where finished work goes after seven days. Nothing is erased.