As we grew as a company, we found that we frequently had people working remotely on a project, sometimes from home, sometimes from another country. trying to keep track of what everyone was doing at any given moment seemed to get exponentially more difficult as time zone differences were involved. just asking people for status updates became a pain. we decided that we'd have to find a better way, and what we came up with to solve our internal issue is UTSUP?.
We developed the application to work transparently with git to update the entire company as to what individuals are working on without the communication overhead of having to actually send someone a status update; now we all just "sup" each other.