Project Management

A picture of Little Mark's quickie, readable to those who only have Microsoft Word. It shows a representation of the key moments of the project in GANTT chart format and also has a project overview/summary in Word. This is a system development project. It only has 5 stages and 15 steps for the whole project, but a very useful quickie when you are doing your early planning on the back of an envelope. (J-51545)

A one-page planner for the year 2013 with simple Y/N assignment, useful for evaluating days required for resource assignment, for, say a new project.

Another plan for determining a number of different documentation projects that can be assigned to different professionals and used for building a local environment plan (LEP). A simple one-page diagram in VSD.

An informal white paper related to the NSW government's plan to introduce a desalination plant at Kurnell. It investigates other ways of adding 500M/l per day to the potable water supply and comes up with a great idea - it seems at first glance like a crazy first pass but when you think about it the plan (called a "floating flexi-weir" (FFW) at sea level) proves that this amount of water is in reality only a small amount that can be achieved quite easily. All you have to do is start thinking outside the square.

In response to Queensland flash floods 2011. Concept document. Key elements of a flash flood diversion plan (FFDP). A very rudimentary drawing but addresses key elements of the plan. Damage of flash flooding is related directly to the course of and huge speed of a temporary water flow. Therefore a FFDP does not seek to stop flooding but to ameliorate risk by changing the watercourse. Here we look at a small hamlet on the banks of a creek subject to flash flooding.