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All of life can be divided into "projects" - the categories we use in our minds to separate and make sense of what we need to accomplish (e.g. "the party I'm planning," "client X," "event Y," "finances"). The Action Method helps you manage your projects starting with the most basic elements - always with an emphasis on action.
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* plan and estimate your project (duration, work, cost) by splitting the project into a number of tasks
* review you plan using Gantt chart
* manage project resources (work or material) and assign them to tasks
* manage project calendars (set working times, add holidays etc)
* manage resource calendars (working times, vacations etc)
* control your project's progress by setting % complete values to each task
* review critical tasks
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Creativity for Left-Brained People As a systems-thinking, ridiculously rational INTP, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told to, “Stop overthinking!” After all, rational thinking isn’t naturally associated with creativity. I admittedly find it difficult to act on creative whim, preferring designs that are the logical outputs of a rational thought-process. To me, a “beautiful” design is one that is logically coherent and rich with meaning.
Currently in that strange position of being excitingly new to many, touted as an essential component of web design process by industry experts and seemingly on the way to becoming ubiquitous, UX also has an air of mystery about it.
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James on Software James Golick's software experience ranges from artificial intelligence to web front-end and JavaScript development. Most recently, James has fallen back in love with web development thanks to Ruby on Rails.
Since discovering Rails, James has become a prolific contributor to its open source ecosystem. He is the author of several popular plug-ins and gems, and a contributor to countless others, including the framework itself.
James is an advocate for well-written, well-tested code and he blogs regularly about the practice of developing software. He speaks regularly at software development conferences and user groups. James is a partner in Nine Lives, Inc.
