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Prioritisation & Visualisation | Project management 'holes' left in Github #8
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SpecThere are a few key features we need:
Nice to Have's
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There are swathes and swathes of tools available, all doing variants of the same thing, some with a very focussed set of features, some that do a lot of different things and even some that do a lot of different things well. I found many blog posts on the ‘best’ tools, even with very little overlap, like https://www.workzone.com/blog/gantt-chart-software/ and https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/best-gantt-chart-software/ (interestingly a lot of them were on the blogs of said apps). I settled on 3 to try, mostly because they seemed more intuitive, didn’t require a huge amount of set and were aesthetically pleasing:
1. Monday.comReasons I chose to use it
Reasons I stopped using it
2. TeamGanttReasons I chose to use it
Have not yet triedI’m only including the ones here that stuck out to me as worth trying for one reason or another; as I say, there are dozens of blog posts with many suggestions for others. Todo.vuThis one looks by far to be the most promising and is probably the one I’d try next. Built for small businesses and freelancers and incorporating a large chunk of all business tasks that would be required rather than just one track, (including CRM and time tracking): TeamworkThere is a lot of functionality here - based around creating a task list. Thought it was interesting how they also have a section on their site around comparing it to other popular task managers. Asana TimelineAsana being the behemoth in the ‘project management’ world that it is, it would be worth a quick look into how Timeline works. Bitrix24This one pops up a lot and appears to have quite the following. It doesn’t appeal to me because of the hard sell on the website and the feeling that it’s a little convoluted but might be worth a pomodoro of further investigation. Discarded
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Why?
~ Bill Gates
We currently use Github to hold all of our open tasks https://github.com/dwyl/contributing
Whilst this is invaluable for maintaining a single source of truth and pays many dividends with respect to our ability to have a mostly up-to-date view of what is happening, it is by no means a perfect system.
If we want to truly affect change and ensure we and everyone around us is able to reach their potential and be effective so that they can free up time and brainspace for the people and activities they love, a big part of that is having a system that keeps you quasi-effortlessly moving towards your goals.
It should work in the background and not take up your brainpower but rather give you a clear direction and inspire you to action whenever you look at it.
What?
Github's biggest flaws from a project management perspective, as far as I can see, are two-fold:
1. Prioritisation
Truly understanding what the next most important task is to be done:
priority-3
and oftenpriority-2
become a behemoths and trying to sort through these to adjust priorities is incredibly time consuming2. Visualisation
I've alluded to this multiple times above but the real difficulty with Github is being able to have a clear, visual representation of where things are at.
At dwyl specifically, there are three key places where this lack of prioritisation and importantly the lack of visualisation is slowing us down:
But this is much bigger than dwyl.
Achieving your goals, planning trips, preparing for life events, making big decisions, knowing what to delegate, making sure your life admin is in order, all of these can be made much easier and more efficient with system that works for you rather than against you or even just with you.
How?
My instinct here is that solving visualisation will solve a lot of the prioritisation issues so visualisation is the place to start.
Tasks
Thundercats Hooooooooo!
(for the uninitiated in 80s cartoons: https://youtu.be/mnhrz5nDDa4?t=10)
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