From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Developing a multiproject plan

From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Developing a multiproject plan

- In this video you're going to learn how to create a multi-project plan using the XMind software platform. In the last video we went over a template for a project plan but what if you're managing multiple projects? You can use this multi-project plan to keep yourself organized. Let's take a look at the Exercise File included in this lesson. Notice how the projects are listed in the first column on the left. You can add the purpose of the project in the second column, in other words why are we doing this project? In the third column you can add the project's objectives and in the next column you can list the name of the person that is leading this project. The Brainstorming column can be a helpful area to provide any ideas related to the project, and of course the Progress column tells you how far along you are. In the next column you'll see the Next Actions area. These are your highest priority actions and you can see the lowest priority actions are in the next column. Finally, our last column will show any related documents. You can simply drag and drop files here that are related to the project. And if you need to add additional projects just click All Projects on the top, then click on the Insert menu and select Topic. You can also do this a little faster by pressing the Enter button on your keyboard. And if you happen to need more columns just click the icon next to All Projects and it will add another column to your dashboard. Like any other template, keep in mind that you can modify this to your liking but use this template as a guide to be more productive with your projects.

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