Project Management

From Idea to Paper: Drafting a Schedule

Name: From Idea to Paper: Drafting a Schedule
Uploaded: 2025-10-06T13:52:36Z
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Description: In part two, Rachel Cobb walks through transforming project ideas into a rough draft schedule. She explains how sketching out tasks on paper helps visualize the sequence of events, identify adjustments, and estimate timelines. This quick, hands-on process lays the groundwork before transferring the schedule into a digital calendar or project management software.

In part two, Rachel Cobb walks through transforming project ideas into a rough draft schedule. She explains how sketching out tasks on paper helps visualize the sequence of events, identify adjustments, and estimate timelines. This quick, hands-on process lays the groundwork before transferring the schedule into a digital calendar or project management software.

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Okay, so here we have my rough draft project schedule that I sketched out in one of my planning notebooks. This is my process of getting the project schedule that's in my head down on paper, so then I can make adjustments as needed. I can go through my thought process, I can make mistakes, and it's not a big deal.

As you can see down here, I got ahead of myself. No big deal. Scratch it out. Reorganize my sequence of events so that they actually make sense for, um, onsite construction. I will then take this and put it into a calendar because I know that this project is gonna take roughly two to two and a half months to get done, but I'm trying to save a little bit of time off of there, and I wanna see how feasible it is to do that.

This process here of taking the sequence of events from my head and getting it down on a piece of paper. Took me about eight minutes this morning, so I'm gonna now move on to how I take this, that I just pull outta my head, and now I'm gonna put it into a calendar so that I can make sure I'm gonna hit my end date before then I transfer this over to the computer software that I like to use.