Comments on: Lightweight Project Management http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management/ Interests, Ideas and Observations Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: david http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-10086 david Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:28:07 +0000 http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management-2/#comment-10086 Hi - If you are talking about Freemind - I can't recommend it highly enough. It is a mind-map program and I find it fast and fluid. This program does not at this stage have any links with PM software. V0.9 which is due soon will have the ability to add attributes to the entries in the mind map and perhaps they could be linked up? Hi – If you are talking about Freemind – I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is a mind-map program and I find it fast and fluid. This program does not at this stage have any links with PM software. V0.9 which is due soon will have the ability to add attributes to the entries in the mind map and perhaps they could be linked up?

]]> By: PM Hut http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-10085 PM Hut Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:04:02 +0000 http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management-2/#comment-10085 I\'ve just checked this software (did not install it though), and I have to tell you it doesn\'t look like the most intuitive. I\’ve just checked this software (did not install it though), and I have to tell you it doesn\’t look like the most intuitive.

]]> By: david http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-10083 david Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:14:40 +0000 http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management-2/#comment-10083 Hey, free flow of ideas is a must. And you are absolutely right. Software systems are no magic bullet. Hey, free flow of ideas is a must. And you are absolutely right. Software systems are no magic bullet.

]]> By: Ron Rosenhead http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-10082 Ron Rosenhead Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:41:32 +0000 http://www.davidpratten.com/2008/08/02/lightweight-project-management-2/#comment-10082 David, I have not seen the software that you refer to however it poses a problem for me...as you say, work breakdown is critical for project success. One problem I see with software is that people break projects down in a linear way. By this I mean they have one work packager and build downwards from this. The danger is there is no free flowing of ideas, suggestions. I have worked with many project teams who have applied the process you described (no software…) and they have discovered large omissions. At least they discovered them but in some instances the omissions were pretty serious So, I am not too convinced about the merits of a software approach…please convince me! Ron Rosenhead David, I have not seen the software that you refer to however it poses a problem for me…as you say, work breakdown is critical for project success. One problem I see with software is that people break projects down in a linear way. By this I mean they have one work packager and build downwards from this. The danger is there is no free flowing of ideas, suggestions.

I have worked with many project teams who have applied the process you described (no software…) and they have discovered large omissions. At least they discovered them but in some instances the omissions were pretty serious

So, I am not too convinced about the merits of a software approach…please convince me!

Ron Rosenhead

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