Know who is doing what, and where it stands.
Operations turns objectives into assignments and follows each team from briefing through return. Team status and task status stay distinct, so supervisors can see both capacity and progress.
Assignments connect the sections.
Operations receives a plan, gives it to a team, and returns the result to the shared incident picture.
The records behind the board.
Open the task, the team, or the status board to work at the level the situation requires.
Tasks & assignments
Define the work, assign a team, attach geography, and follow the result.
Explore tasks →02 / RESOURCESTeams & crews
See staffing, equipment, vehicles, aircraft, capabilities, and activity in one team record.
Explore teams →03 / STATUSStatus boards
Separate team availability from task progress while keeping them connected.
Explore boards →From tasking to closeout.
Every step keeps the responsible team, supervisor, location, and operational record attached to the work.
- 01Prepare
Define the assignment, map area, hazards, and expected result.
- 02Brief
Give the team its task and confirm the personnel and resources assigned.
- 03Track
Follow status, location, field narrative, and changes in conditions.
- 04Close
Record the result, team return, and anything that becomes new work.
Capacity and progress are different questions.
Teams
Availability, staffing, movement, rest, and out-of-service conditions describe what a resource can do next.
Tasks
Planned, assigned, active, and completed work describes what has happened to an assignment.
The team is more than a callsign.
Open a team to review its personnel, aircrew where applicable, equipment, vehicles, aircraft, and task, status, unit, or ICS-214 activity logs. The available tabs follow the type of team.
- Check composition and qualifications before assigning work.
- Keep vehicles and equipment tied to the team using them.
- Read the team’s activity in the same context as its assignments.