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I notice that when I have even a moderate amount of work to do that I need a detailed plan or I am not going to complete everything.
When i have a lot going on -- a time such as now -- I will completely freeze up without a detailed plan.
I survived most of my life without needed to create the plans. All the time I was in the Navy, my plans were set by outside dictate.
I am going to rewrite EVERYTHING happening at Moffitt & Associates, which is a lot, and move it all from Microsoft to Linux/Mac/BSD. I discovered that I hadn't started on that project at all citing the need for a couple of critical bits of information. So I wrote a plan.
I used one of the project management programs that came with SuSE 10 (Imendio Planner 0.13) to create it. The planner has a few problems, but mostly it functions well enough and I like the Gant Chart. :)
I wrote out every major step I could think of and scheduled it. Then I made some realistic guesses about how much time each task would take while still getting the day to day work done around here.
The boss loved it. He assigned people to tasks. Life is good. Really good.
I like having a plan. A couple of hours of planning (always to be refined) will save hundreds of staffing hours in the next 8 months. Plans are VERY good.
I need to write one that good for home projects.
And for my outside clients.
When i have a lot going on -- a time such as now -- I will completely freeze up without a detailed plan.
I survived most of my life without needed to create the plans. All the time I was in the Navy, my plans were set by outside dictate.
I am going to rewrite EVERYTHING happening at Moffitt & Associates, which is a lot, and move it all from Microsoft to Linux/Mac/BSD. I discovered that I hadn't started on that project at all citing the need for a couple of critical bits of information. So I wrote a plan.
I used one of the project management programs that came with SuSE 10 (Imendio Planner 0.13) to create it. The planner has a few problems, but mostly it functions well enough and I like the Gant Chart. :)
I wrote out every major step I could think of and scheduled it. Then I made some realistic guesses about how much time each task would take while still getting the day to day work done around here.
The boss loved it. He assigned people to tasks. Life is good. Really good.
I like having a plan. A couple of hours of planning (always to be refined) will save hundreds of staffing hours in the next 8 months. Plans are VERY good.
I need to write one that good for home projects.
And for my outside clients.