Every Sunday I send Julia her task list for the week (we use, a true Type-Aer’s delight).ĥ. In week 2 you need to write 1 hard recipe and 6 medium-difficulty recipes” etc. On a wide-open week, load up!įor Julia, this was transforming “108 recipes in 19 weeks” to “in week 1 you need to write 8 easy recipes and 2 medium-difficulty recipes. Be mindful – on a tight week, take on less tasks. Once you have sized the tasks and determined the schedule (steps 2 and 3), start organizing your tasks into your weekly schedule. I also plugged in her elementary school closures and our daycare closures.Ĥ. Rhinoplasty week had 2 working days to support recovery time. Go week by week and make a list of how much true working time you expect to have.įor Julia, her family vacation week had only 1 working day. You might have a vacation planned or a nose job scheduled (not naming any names, this is a safe space). Not all weeks are created equal in terms of expected work output. Long story short: make a list of every task you need to accomplish and the relative sizing/difficulty of each one.ģ. For example, writing 6 easy recipes does not take the same amount of time/effort as writing 6 hard recipes.
I then converted those difficulty levels into Fibonacci Sequence numbers to plug into my planning calculations (blah blah math blah…don’t worry about it).
For Julia, we listed out her recipes and categorized every recipe as easy, medium, or hard.
LEMON STRIPES PLANNING FACEBOOK POSTS CRACK
Here are a few tips I would suggest to kickstart any daunting project so crack those knuckles, fire up that lower back heating pad, and let’s goooo.ġ.
LEMON STRIPES PLANNING FACEBOOK POSTS PRO
PM’ing a big project takes some upfront math and a dash of the elder millennial need-to-succeed mindset (dad are you proud of me yet!?) but I’m thrilled to report Julia is on track and crushing our schedule.Įditor’s note: She is no longer pro bono in case you think I’m a monster. Who knew! Aren’t everyone’s two main food groups lattes and high-functioning anxiety?įlash forward a few weeks and she asked me if I could project manage (PM) her cookbook. One day when I was helping Julia (pro-bono, the outrage!) organize her tricky summer camp schedule (PhD suggested but not required) she made a comment along lines of “not everyone is as hyper-organized as you…”. Top this skillset off with healthy doses of Type A personality and rip-roaring anxiety, and I have become the designated planner in our mom friend group.
While there, I received my CSM certification (certified scrum master) which focuses on the planning calculations used to drive large projects forward through quick iterations of work output. Prior to my current job in corporate strategy operations, I worked for a consulting firm for 12 years focusing on IT project management. I hired her to help me project manage the book and thought it would be fun for her to share her tips for starting a big project, infused with her humor along the way. Enter Kelly, my dear and hilarious friend, who could organize even the most complicated of projects. When I decided that I wanted to write a cookbook, I knew that it would be hard (obviously) but when I sat down to actually start writing said cookbook, I panicked and had no idea where to start.
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