Poll:
Have you read the #PMBOK* #Guide? Should I? — I started it a while ago (Section I) and had a mixed feelings about it's value for me.
* Project Management Body Of Knowledge — a (proprietary) book by the #Project #Management #Institute (#PMI)
To put it in context: the #book was cited as the recommended literature for #GNOME #Planner. And, although I figured out how to use it without actually reading the book, I'm wondering what else #project / #functional #management techniques are there to implement in a #schedule management #software. — I'm sure there are some.
Planner itself is pretty much broken now, but the respective application from #Calligra (#KDE / #Qt) wasn't even usable on #NixOS last time I checked. — Not much interest?
why do you bring this up now ?
@catonano
Why not? Anybody is offended?
Which part, or the whole thing?
no one is offended 😃
I was just wondering how come you bring up something from one yer ago out of the blue
I'm always curious about cognitive processes going on in people's minds
And my mind too of course !
@catonano
Ah, the last bit: I just recalled that (last time I checked) the Issue Board didn't have all the tools available in e.g. Planner. And cited it as a deficiency, related to the main train of thought (about SM software).
I for one don' t believe in formalized time management
There are emotional issues involved in work, you simply can' t capture them in any symbolic representation
I' m experimenting with a org-mode file, but that' s more a diary of what goes through my mind than a real plan
https://gitlab.com/humanitiesNerd/new-qisquiliae/blob/master/resources/da_fare.org
@catonano
#Org-mode represents a small subset of SM* techniques, namely: Work Breakdown Structure (#WBS) and prioritized to-do lists — that's fairly rudimentary.
There is, for example, no way to set dependencies between the tasks (SS, …, FF), and visualize the resulting graph (Gantt chart), or find a critical path. Nor is there a notion of resources, and their assignment to a task.
I get lost in my to-do lists real fast.
* SM — Schedule Management, since "we can't manage time…"
@catonano
P.S. I believe in (formalized) SM just as much as I believe in accounting — you have to keep track of your time spending at least as carefully as the finances. Maybe that is just me.
Moreover, I'd like to be able to use these tools not only via the standard GUI. — Say, have a shared library, and a number of front-ends: #GUI (Gtk, Qt, Web, mobile), #CLI (ncurses, readline), and from other applications, via #FFI.
The library itself may be quite advanced and multi-purpose.
This is the technical side. — On the conceptual side, I'd like to make it useful on smaller time scales (days, not months), and also:
https://functional.cafe/users/amiloradovsky/statuses/99524933622649334