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title: 'Deliverables and Activities Ahah!! Moment'
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date: 2008-07-15T01:32:39.000Z
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draft: false
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taxonomies:
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tags: [ "bfo"]
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categories: [ "project"]
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---
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Something I already knew became suddenly clear today : the product or
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product pieces in the WBS and the relation to the activities. Although
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I already knew for a long time that it is good practice to make the
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WBS deliverable oriented instead of activity oriented it remained
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always a gradient where activities blended seamlessly in
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deliverables.
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The key was that I used a mental trick derived from 'Getting Things
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Done', which says that you must write your activities action oriented,
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with a verb, active voice, i.e. do something. I was rephrasing the
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activities this way (more bang per spreadsheet cell).
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Now I applied this reasoning to the WBS work packages, but I rewrote
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it as things, or part of things. Again the clarity improved
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considerably and wordiness got down. And then : klabammm.... flash of
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light : activities were clearly separated from the WBS work packages,
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the grey area between them was gone!!!.
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I am quite sure if I read my PM books again I will find this trick in
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every single one, but I had to "invent" it myself before I understood
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and felt it, instead of just knowing it.
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