The Task Orchestrator is the coordination brain for managers - it watches your team's open tasks and chases the ones that are slipping, so work keeps moving even when you're not looking.
What it catches
Every hour it checks every open task across the teams you manage for:
- Review due soon - about to auto-pass its 48h window unrated.
- Stalled - in progress with no update for days.
- Over target - worked past its target time.
- Aging To Do - assigned but never started.
- Unclaimed pool - pooled to a team and nobody took it.
- Blocked - waiting on sub-tasks that are themselves stuck.
When it finds one, it posts a clear nudge in that task's chat and escalates the loud ones to the task's manager. It's idempotent - it nudges a task once per stall, not every hour, so it never spams.
The console
Open Tasks ? Orchestrator (needs the Task Orchestrate permission, or Task Manager). You get:
- KPI tiles - counts of Critical / Review-due-soon / Stalled / Over-target / Unclaimed / Aging.
- A "needs attention" list - every flagged task with the reason, who it's on, how old, and a link straight to it.
- Run sweep now - trigger the nudges immediately instead of waiting for the hour.
Tuning
The thresholds (how many days = stalled, how many hours before a review counts as "due soon", and so on) are configurable per environment, and the automatic nudging can be switched off entirely while the console stays usable.
Related: Reviewing work � Recurring tasks.