Project Flow: the tool I run my days from
My own tool · Runs my businesses and my client projects
Four parallel commitments needed one honest view of my promises and my time.
A personal cockpit on my own machine for promises, delivery and real capacity.
21 database updates and 16 helper scripts, with the data, the connections and the workflows all tested.
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The problem
I run a community business, a consulting practice, a software build and a day job. That needs one honest view of my promises and my time, not four to-do apps.
What I built
A personal cockpit that runs on my own machine.
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Every week I log what I promised and what I delivered, so I can see my say-do ratio. Promises made in meetings come in automatically.
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An honest capacity view: work needed against time available, shown in red, amber and green, plus what-if scenarios.
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When a deal is won, it turns into a delivery project by itself.
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The data lives on my own machine. Each area is walled off, everything is tested, and there is a written export so the whole thing can move anywhere.
Proof
The plumbing is treated like a product: the data, the connections and the workflows are all tested.
