> > Lisa, I imagine that you are well aware of what I'm recommending below but > I thought I should add it to the conversation.
You talked about wanting to visualize the overall project as an aide to understanding it and getting it organized. Two leading visualization techniques (there are others) are Gantt and Pert. The Pert chart presents the project as a collection of bubbles, each representing a task, or a group of tasks, or a deliverable, and arrows representing dependencies. In my opinion the Pert is especially helpful for taking a jumble of tasks and turning them into a well organized project. The Gantt presents the project as a series of bars against a timeline. In my opinion the Gantt is especially helpful during execution of a project to see what's done, what's running late, what's impacted and how to recover. One other technique that bears mentioning is CPM, the Critical Path Method. If you have recorded all of the tasks, have correctly identified the dependencies of each, have estimated all of the resources (including your time, other people's time, and other scheduled resources such as use of the shop vac) and the amount of time needed of each resource, as well as the amount of time per day each resource is available, then CPM will tell you which tasks you have can work on today in order to bring the whole project to the quickest possible completion, and which tasks really can and should wait. If you find yourself in the familiar situation where the project quickly moves to somewhere between 50% and 99% complete and then stalls, using up lots of time and effort but getting no closer to completion, then you need cpm. -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d3854242-eb8e-4088-ae7d-7e1f47ee253b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
