Why do you need a central production tracking system?
Productions don’t run like an organized, gantt-charted schedule. Real productions are chaotic: Missed deadlines, miss-communication, director’s scope/artistic creep, new tasks, new people in, old people out. This is why information needs to be centralized and archived. No more he-said she-said. No more forwarding 500 emails to a person who gets involved in the middle of a project. No more losing knowledge when someone leaves a show. With a good production tracking system it’s all there: centralized, archived, accessible, date stamped, and labeled for clear accountability.
