project management Archive
17 Aug
Rescuing Time
I’ve just started using RescueTime , a productivity tool that silently monitors time spent on websites and in various apps. It’s a pretty hot way of telling where your time at the computer is going. There are free and paid options … I’ve gone for the free option but with a trial of a pro
08 Mar
Managing tasks for those of us who love to ‘check’!
Part of the GTD system involves finding a way to take all of our ‘to-do’ stuff out of our heads and into a system we trust, be that electronic or paper. I found great software that works really well for the purposes of my PhD. It also has the best name ever – Remember the
24 Feb
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a system designed by David Allen to help with productivity. About 4 months in to my PhD I luckily came across this system and I firmly believe it has been the single most useful collection of practical knowledge I could have ever been given for helping me manage my PhD
13 Feb
Managing time when doing your PhD
As I wrote in my earlier post on managing your PhD, undertaking doctoral research is like managing one big project with many sub-projects. The use of Gantt software has helped me to keep track of the big picture. But what about the day-to-day and week-to-week stuff? While a Gantt chart might work with this, I
10 Jan
A PhD is a project to manage
Well, it’s one big project with other little projects to also complete. Therefore, I figured that commercially available project-management software can be useful for tracking the stages of my PhD. A well-known way of tracking projects visually is called the Gantt chart. This chart tracks your project schedule, including ‘dependencies’ i.e. elements of the project