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Defragging the Team
Ian Whittingham, PMP is director of Calixo Consulting, providing project and program management expertise from initiation through to implementation, covering business transformation, workflow process re-engineering, and enterprise data integration. He is a regular contributor to ProjectManagement.com. You may contact Ian directly at [email protected].
If nothing else, it makes me feel vaguely virtuous, in the way that having my blood pressure taken or cholesterol checked does. No matter, I always have to click around the Programs menu to find it, hidden away in the Accessories folder under System Tools, sandwiched between Disk Cleanup and Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. But when I click Analyze, I realize I have not been as diligently attentive to the needs of my laptop as I should have been.
A braided ribbon diagnostic displays the state of my C drive: wide expanses of white space delimited by irregularly spaced red threads, interspersed with blue lines of varying thickness. Just as in nature, file management appears to abhor a vacuum. A pop-up window chides me: “You should defragment this volume.”
What the diagnostic graphically depicts is the extent to which the files on my PC have become fragmented across my C drive. But if I switch to the peripheral memory store that occupies my E drive, the analysis is much more reassuring: large blocks of blue predominate the ribbon display. This depicts the ideal state of contiguity in which all files should reside. The bluer, the better.
The variations in these color-banded patterns--red for fragmented files, blue for contiguous files, green for unmovable files and white for free space--are generated by algorithmic behavior designed to …
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