playing off of Ross's suggestion, I came up with this:

The idea here is that task categories, tasks, and the people who do them will be "nodes", the lines with arrows are "this needs to be done before this" all within the time frame. Eg, all of the stuff that shows up from Nov -> Dec and what needs to be done by whom before what (or what depends on what else, in order to be started)

I may have the priorities, months and tasks wrong, but the question here is:

Is this visualization useful?

If so, it is currently done manually, and we can include a component in our spread sheet to prioritize over time this way (dependent iterations within temporal space)

Then, eventually, I can program a way for us to show this visualization automatically. What do you all think?