New article on "Natural Project Planning with org-mode"

New article on "Natural Project Planning with org-mode"

[Charles Cave]

Fellow org-moders....

I have written an article on implementng the Natural Project Planning
with org-mode.  This is a simplified project planning method
described by David Allen in his book "Getting Things Done".
I have discussed how to do Brainstorming using org-mode and some
idea prompting methods (Idea Quota, Six Questions and asking Why?)

The article URL is
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.html

Naturally, I wrote it with org-mode and the source article is here:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.org

Feel free to send me comments, and especially spelling and typographic 
errors.

Table of Contents

     * Natural Project Planning and org-mode
     * The Natural Planning Model
     * Step 1. Purpose
     * Step 2. Envisioning A Successful outcome
           o The Power of Focus
           o Clarifying outcomes
     * Step 3. Brainstorming.
           o org-mode for brainstorming - idea generation
           o Setting quotas to generate ideas
           o Idea prompting
     * Step 4. Organising the ideas
     * Step 5. Next Actions
           o Activating TODO tasks
           o Adding your project file to the agenda file list
           o Setting a deadline and milestones
           o The PROJECT tag and your list of projects.
     * How much planning do you need?
     * References


Enjoy!
Charles

Re: New article on "Natural Project Planning with org-mode"

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Charles,

thanks a lot for this useful writeup!  I am linking to it from the  
tutorials page.

- Carsten

On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Charles Cave wrote:

> Fellow org-moders....
>
> I have written an article on implementng the Natural Project Planning
> with org-mode.  This is a simplified project planning method
> described by David Allen in his book "Getting Things Done".
> I have discussed how to do Brainstorming using org-mode and some
> idea prompting methods (Idea Quota, Six Questions and asking Why?)
>
> The article URL is
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.html
>
> Naturally, I wrote it with org-mode and the source article is here:
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/Natural_Project_Planning.org
>
> Feel free to send me comments, and especially spelling and  
> typographic errors.
>
> Table of Contents
>
>    * Natural Project Planning and org-mode
>    * The Natural Planning Model
>    * Step 1. Purpose
>    * Step 2. Envisioning A Successful outcome
>          o The Power of Focus
>          o Clarifying outcomes
>    * Step 3. Brainstorming.
>          o org-mode for brainstorming - idea generation
>          o Setting quotas to generate ideas
>          o Idea prompting
>    * Step 4. Organising the ideas
>    * Step 5. Next Actions
>          o Activating TODO tasks
>          o Adding your project file to the agenda file list
>          o Setting a deadline and milestones
>          o The PROJECT tag and your list of projects.
>    * How much planning do you need?
>    * References
>
>
> Enjoy!
> Charles
>
>
>
>
>
>
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