Here's product design with its work packages. Because this is the lowest level, these are our work packages and this work breakdown structure. You will see R&D and all the tasks and deliverables that are below it. If you go now to work breakdown structure, you would see this better. We should have the same thing in R&D, and you will see that the R&D procurement and marketing distribution all appear as black, they represent that major deliverable on the very top. Product design happens to be a milestone. As you look at this, you would see that the product design does not connect to anything. The red indicates critical path and the blue indicates the non-critical paths. It's a little hard to see and I want you to know that that looks exactly like what Microsoft Project would give you if the nodes are in the rectangles. We have done this project, New Toy, and right now if you're in the view, you can go to the network, you get the project network. Let me show you a few things that you can use. ProjectLibre being an open-source software, it is still not everything that you can get in Microsoft Project, but it's very good. But this is rarely how projects work in practice.In this video, I'm going to show some basic operations in ProjectLibre. But what you may find is you'll make the initial plan for the "best case scenario." There will be one and only one task going on at any one time (easy to manage), and they all fall neatly one after another. We're calling this "Optimized Planning," because creating the WBS is in fact also planning. Calculating things according to capacity will tell you how long your projects will really take. This means a given task that a person working full-time at it could complete in one day will take you four working days. This means you have a weekly capacity of: (2 * 5) = 10 hours a week (go on, take the weekends off… you deserve it). But for your personal projects, you may block off an hour or two at night. ![]() At your 9-to-5, you're available probably eight hours a day. It starts with understanding how many hours a day someone is available, then tracking that availability against the work you assign.įor example, you may have a day job. But you also need to know how much they're available in general, as well as when. don't assign 3.5 to your graphic designer). To assign a task to someone, you'll first need to be sure they can do it at all (e.g. Now that you know what needs to be done, you need to figure out who will do it and when. Change DNS settings (dependent on 1, 2, 3b, 3c, and 3d).Install/configure theme and plugins (dependent on 3a).Write content for posts 1-3 (dependent on 1a).So the outline of your project now looks like this: You should also have a concept of what needs to be completed before something else can begin, known as predecessors or dependencies.įor example, your designer can't produce the draft of your logo until after you've selected her. It also provides flexibility in shuffling them around to meet a target date. Making them smaller not only allows you to see progress sooner. ![]() For example, the "write content for posts" items could be further split out one per post. Visual design (pick a color palette, etc.). ![]()
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