Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
I’m going to avoid talking about the negative parts of 2017. Like many people, I’ll be looking forward to having this year in the rear-view, but I’m going to focus on the good stuff because, really, what else you gonna do? And honestly, there was...
Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management, Robin Hood 2018
This post is an expansion of part of this earlier post on setting big goals. If you are trying to figure out what big thing to pursue, I still recommend that post (plus it has a nifty Dr. Horrible theme). This post is about just one important piece of that…...
Basics, Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
Ever since mentioning my Bullet Ephemeris (and then blogging about it), I’ve been seeing masses of directed advertising for custom hardbound planner books. I am frankly stunned at the number and variety of these, to the point that I feel obliged to make sort of...
Agile, Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
When I started planning my major, three year project (dubbed Early to Bed, Early to Rise — EBER) I knew it was important to immediately begin working on one or two of the goals. So I broke down part of the project into epics and then chose a couple of stories to...
Agile, Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
Since I’m in the middle of flushing out the EBER project, I wanted to explain how I’ve been using the bullet ephemeris for project planning and management. First, I created a main project page to capture the high level stuff: Sorry for all the blank space,...
Agile, Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
So, let’s talk a little bit more about the component parts of a major agile project like the EBER project. At the highest level, your project contains goals, plans, and deadlines. However, we now know more about how each of those things is handled.GoalsThe...
