How to stop tickets getting lost between IT, HR and support teams
I work for a software company with around 180 employees in Austin, and as we've grown it feels like internal requests have become way harder to manage.
A simple request will start with IT, then HR needs to approve part of it, then Ops has to do something before it goes back to IT. Before long, nobody knows who's actually responsible anymore. The employee just keeps waiting while every team assumes someone else is handling it.
People start replying to old email threads asking for updates, Slack messages get buried after a day or two, and half the time nobody can even find the latest conversation. We've even had duplicate work happen because two teams thought the other hadn't started yet.
Then someone gets frustrated, managers get involved, and everyone starts digging through emails and Slack trying to figure out where the request got stuck.
It's making me think we really need one shared workflow where ownership is clear from the start instead of requests constantly bouncing between departments.
Has anyone dealt with this, what are you using that actually works?