I’m yet again rebuilding another Landy after saying I wouldn’t but never mind.
I thought I’d share a very simple planning tool/method I have used for the last few cars that helps enormously keep on top of what I should be doing (screenshots at the bottom). It’s just in excel since that is what I have at work but you can get free spreadsheets on the web that do exactly the same thing.
As you can see basically I have a column with the list of jobs I need to do, and some others that show 100% complete (no point in lying to yourself with that!), The area of the car the job applies to, the priority (I use 1 to 4) so that I can select just the important ones. I have defined the priority definitions at the top right.
Once done I can filter just the priority 1’s excluding the 100% complete jobs and there I have a list showing what I should be focusing on or all the 2’s or all the engine jobs for example. I find this so much easier to manage the project rather than just a big scary list and it helps not to get disheartened with how many are still outstanding.
With any car project and probably kit cars especially it’s easy to lose focus and feel like everything is taking forever and when will it ever end?!?! hence we see so many part finished cars for sale.
Hopefully this very simple method might help you keep going and get to the end.
Cheers
[Edited on 2/9/15 by Mr Whippy]
