Dr. Wayne Pernell compares vacation planning to project management, showing how choosing a destination, budgeting, picking transportation, and packing mirror defining scope, budgeting, allocating resources, and prioritizing deliverables in real projects.
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If you were planning a vacation, you would probably spend a good amount of time going, well, where do we want to go? What do we want to see when we get there? How much will it cost? Is it more important to take the like to buy a rail pass or should we take taxis? Do we want to rent a car? All of those things go into your planning for a vacation. If you think about a vacation being a project, then you can think about anything else on your, on your to do list as a project very similar to a vacation. When you get there, like how are you going to get there when you get there, what do you need? What are the different options once you're there? What has to happen? So what's in your picnic basket means what are you putting in front of you right now? Right now and project manage as if you're going on vacation.