Almost all work knowledge workers do is task-based. This means a knowledge worker maintains a todo-list with items, ordered by priority or due-date and these are fulfilled task-by-task.

As knowledge workers are human beings, there is a third scale for weighting tasks next to priority and urgency: personal preference. People who procrastinate tend to overweight the personal preference and schedule displeasing tasks until they are due or overdue, which leads to missed deadlines or important tasks that are fulfilled in a hurry with low quality.

In order to be a procrastination terminator, team members have to become aware of this problem and counter it by setting more strict deadlines, calculating the preferences of the team members when weighting and assigning tasks and developing task tracking schemes that are able to consider personal preferences.