A method and system of managing work flow in provisioning service orders
is provided, particularly telecommunications service delivery orders,
where each service order may include of tasks from different worklists
from different sources. The method includes merging the worklists and
prioritizing tasks in accordance with work-when-ready work flow. The
merged worklist provides an end-to-end view on a graphical user interface
of all tasks pending to provision each service order. A change of status
of a task results in automatically updating both the native and merged
worklists. When a task is completed on the native system, the task is
automatically deleted from both worklists. Selected search criteria and
sorting fields may be used to narrow the displayed results. New tasks
created by exceptions are inserted appropriately into the active
worklist. The method eliminates the need for a user to log onto different
systems to manually prioritize tasks.