{"id":90,"date":"2015-08-22T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/va1der.ca\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-09-01T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:13:26","slug":"hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/va1der.ca\/index.php\/2015\/08\/22\/hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"This is hard work…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I talked about how I came to the idea of applying proper project management principles to my amateur radio hobby to add focus.\u00a0 It was a great idea, but I’d forgotten just how much leg work <\/a>there is in proper project management.\u00a0\u00a0Mission statements, project definition documents, deliverable identification, scope of work documents, risk assessments… it goes on and on and that’s all stuff that happens before you even start work.\u00a0 I’ve re-learned that being a project manager is something like being a Catholic or a Mormon.\u00a0 There is\u00a0always more you should<\/em> do than you ever can<\/em> do so you always feel guilty about missing something.\u00a0 I suspect that’s the way upper management\u00a0gets more out of them.\u00a0 Any conscientious person in that role will flog himself trying to keep up.\u00a0 Now I don’t want my hobby to be like this.\u00a0If all it is is a bunch of “you have to do this” tasks, I’ll never do it.\u00a0 So I’ve come\u00a0up with a model that I think works, will help me focus my efforts, and will keep things fun.<\/p>\n

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A project hierarchy acts almost like its own scope document by channelling the right efforts into the right project<\/p><\/div>\n

First of all, I’ve adopted a hierarchical organization.\u00a0 There are a lot of aspects to ham radio, and I don’t want any one project to be over-broad, or else I’ll just end up scattering my efforts.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 At the top I have the overall “super-project”, The VA1DER Project.\u00a0 Under it will be categories like HF and VHF.\u00a0 Under those will be specific projects to acquire and refurbish hardware, build antennas, etc.\u00a0 As noted above, I could bury myself in work with all the projects and sub-projects.\u00a0 There is good management, and there is ridiculous make-work.\u00a0 What I want to do is focus myself, so each sub-project will get one framework document that contains:<\/p>\n