Fairly simple but time-consuming tasks become the main concern of the Producer and Director. The way to accomplish this goal is different from earlier phases of the project, however. Rather than assigning a few significant activities to each team member, each team member must be assigned a larger number of smaller tasks. Because the tasks are small, each team member needs more of them to keep the workload even. This means more administrative overhead to keep up with more task assignments and completions.
Many teams find electronic mail to be far more useful in the endgame than in the middle game.
One project team described in their final presentation how they used e-mail in their group. The Producer said he had received five messages through the team's global mail alias through the first two months of the project. As the team began attempting to integrate their components, the team began having communication difficulties. Mistakes were made, time was wasted, and frustration mounted. As the endgame began, they held a summit meeting in which they resolved to change the way they worked together, and in particular to use e-mail more effectively.