Feel connected, no matter where you are.

People are not always in the same office/timezone.

Brings people together via a web browser.  As long as team members have email, they will be kept in the loop via automatic notifications.

A project involves many tasks, often undocumented, held in the head of the person who did it last time.

Writing down what needs to be done is the only way to ensure tasks can be effectively shared.  This system allows anyone to add new items and can easily add themselves to any project task.

Getting people to help as volunteers is difficult because that's the nature of volunteer-based organizations.

Allows project managers to publish the entire list of what needs to happen, giving volunteers/team members the option of contributing where/when they can.

Events are made better with experience, but only if there is some process for recording what happened last time.

When it's time to "rerun" the same event, you can go back to the previous list of tasks to learn how it was done the previous time.  A "project loader" is available so that if an event took 43 tasks, those can be reinserted for the current project, giving project coordinators a huge starting block from which to begin.

Projects can stumble when team members are not held accountable.

To check on tasks and make comments takes only a few minutes; there is no excuse for not being visible/active in the completion of a project.  As a project/event manager, it's simple to see who did what and when.

You can't brainstorm alone.

When a project is started, project members are added.   They can respond to open tasks, or add new ones to support the overall goal.

Lack of success is often about weak process management.

This system supports managing what needs to be done, with the processes of how to do it.    Multiple people can stay on the same page by ensuring the processes are managed properly.

Projects are difficult to control when email is the primary communication tool.

Using this puts everything in one place: All communcations, all file attachments.   If someone is added to the project later, they can go to one place to see the history of what's been done before them.    Using this eliminates "information scatter" that comes from trying to manage with email.

Volunteers don't volunteer when expectations are not well defined.

When tasks are created, they can include an expected amount of time required along with a due date.   Events and projects that depend on volunteers have a higher rate of success when all tasks are kept visible to the entire team of supporters.

How did we do this last time?   (a.k.a., That person is gone)

By giving people a way to easily record the steps they took makes for a useful breadcrumb trail.  Being able to see what decisions are made in the life of a project gives managers a way to improve the next time that event/project is repeated....continuos improvement.