The sticky notes Project Management tool
From the Project Management in Real Life Blog
by Drake Settsu
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One of the most high tech tools at your disposal is the sticky notes. When you are brainstorming and laying out your project you need to start labeling all your high level and detailed tasks on sticky notes.
When you are all done creating your labeled sticky notes the fun starts. Look for a wall or window in your office to start arranging the notes. You are going to assemble a puzzle called your next project. You can keep shifting the notes around to ponder different approaches until you feel you have tasks in the right sequence.
This is actually the high tech part of laying out your project. Enter your masterpiece puzzle of tasks into a web based project management software or Microsoft Project.
(Note - this article was originally written by Drake Settsu and published on DrakeSettsu.BlogSpot.com in August 2015)
Posted on: January 15, 2018 04:39 AM |
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Great minds think alike, Drake! Nice to see that we are all fans of Post-it Notes :-)!
Your post Kiron inspired me to repost my sticky notes post from my personal blog. I do agree that great minds think alike.
Sticky notes rocks once it comes to project management. Low Tech High Touch Tool.
Anish Abraham
Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington
Auburn, Wa, United States
Drake, thanks for sharing this. It's a great tool.....
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I am a big fan of those too - I use them all the time :D
Drew Craig
Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Haha, I was so confused when I saw this. I thought I had already read an article on sticky notes and commented this morning. Took me a second! That's amazing you both had similar articles!
Like Kiron said great minds think alike.
Thank you everyone for your feedback.
It really is a helpful tool that is many times underrated and misused.
I use them all the time...are very efficients :) thanks for the article
I'm happy to hear how effective such a simple office product helps in planning.
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