Thanks, Dwight! I've not had time to look into all the solutions
proposed yet and this is helpful to narrow it down. I think Perth is
closer to what I'm looking for to start...but finding the time to
actually map out the project (even in my own head) has been difficult.
It might just be a matter of figuring out which ball is coming at me
more quickly, at this point.
Lisa (feeling overwhelmed :) / [email protected]
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On 6/3/2014 11:06:41 PM, "Dwight Arthur" <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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