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Project management software, online collaboration: Basecamp Agile software development processes, stories and lessons learnt Struggling to Create a Project Plan? Use These Tips The best way to plan a project is to focus on the project’s deliverables. Start at the highest level with the projects overall objective and gradually break it down until you get to individual deliverables. I use mind mapping to achieve this. Don’t forget the more intangible deliverables like training and communications plans. Now look at the sequence the deliverables have to be created in. You can’t design something until you have its specification. Next, take each deliverable and look at the tasks needed to create the deliverable. As for deliverables, look at the sequence of tasks to give you the task dependencies. Where you are dependent on someone outside the project to deliver something e.g. a part from a supplier or a system environment from IT, this is an external dependency and needs to be carefully monitored. You now have a sequenced set of tasks to create the project’s deliverables. Now you need to estimate the effort required to deliver the tasks. How can you deliver earlier?
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Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones If you've ever had trouble explaining the concept of "big data" to someone—or had trouble wrapping your brain around the buzzword yourself—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demonstrate big data? It's the somewhat abstract, powerful analytical processing of massive quantities of human- and machine-generated data. Smolan believes he can help people understand the idea with his new multimedia effort "The Human Face of Big Data," a week-long, mobile-app project which seeks to transform millions of smartphone users into voluntary sensors who will then "measure the world." Smolan is a former National Geographic photojournalist, and his company, Against All Odds Productions, is a driving force behind the project. He may be uniquely qualified for this task due to his long track record of tackling monstrously large topics with large teams. Since then, Smolan has continued tackling weighty topics (for instance the global water crisis).
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