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The Importance of a Central Project List - lifehack.org

I can’t escape the fact that having a real centralized project list for the things I’m doing is helping. I want to believe that I have tons of excess capacity in my brain. I want to think that I remember everything I’ve got on the go. But I don’t. And maybe you don’t, either.

I’ve found one of the bigger challenges in the last few projects I’ve been involved in is how to stay organised when there are several different people involved. It’s not like an office where I can quickly pop over to someone’s desk to ask a question. Probably not ideal but with the different service communities at our church it’s possible to go a month without meeting someone in person. We use Joomla for our parish website and there is a useful extension called Project Fork. There are no clever Gantt diagrams to confuse the uninitiated in project management. Just projects that are made up of tasks that can have dependencies. Even with only a couple of people on a project the centralisation can be a huge help.