Here is my Georgian project plan, mostly done and dusted except for a finished pic of the underwear:
Okay, okay. So I didn't get it to you before Christmas, but it's up now. That counts for something, right?
The main thing I love about the layout of my project plans (if I do say so myself) is that by keeping it to a single page, it makes me fill it out and actually complete it. I've tried the dress diary thing and just get too bogged down in words for descriptions on how I did everything and loose time that could be better spent actually finishing the project. In the end, I would drop the diary to focus on the project, so I have a lot of half done dress diaries!
As part of my job a couple of years ago, I was drafting a company profile for the Defence Materiel Organisation and discovered their Quad Charts. OMG, what a revelation! A one-page document to get to the crux of any matter without too many words and have all the pertinent information right there in a quick view! So I immediately decided that was the way I needed to go for my project plans.
After a few iterations as I nutted out what worked best for me, I've come up with the layout as above. It works for me and I can make hand written notes on a hard copy as I progress with the project and spend 15min at the end of the project cleaning it up, along with pictures of the finished product.
It makes me feel very organised!
Okay, okay. So I didn't get it to you before Christmas, but it's up now. That counts for something, right?
The main thing I love about the layout of my project plans (if I do say so myself) is that by keeping it to a single page, it makes me fill it out and actually complete it. I've tried the dress diary thing and just get too bogged down in words for descriptions on how I did everything and loose time that could be better spent actually finishing the project. In the end, I would drop the diary to focus on the project, so I have a lot of half done dress diaries!
As part of my job a couple of years ago, I was drafting a company profile for the Defence Materiel Organisation and discovered their Quad Charts. OMG, what a revelation! A one-page document to get to the crux of any matter without too many words and have all the pertinent information right there in a quick view! So I immediately decided that was the way I needed to go for my project plans.
After a few iterations as I nutted out what worked best for me, I've come up with the layout as above. It works for me and I can make hand written notes on a hard copy as I progress with the project and spend 15min at the end of the project cleaning it up, along with pictures of the finished product.
It makes me feel very organised!
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