Comment by chipsa

4 years ago

> In the example we’ve been using, 20-29 was Administration but our first category was 21 Company registration. What happened to 20?

> We reserve these numbers for ‘management & meta’ information about the category. Although I hardly ever use them, it’s rare that I have more than nine categories in an area. I don’t miss the wasted number, but I always appreciate it when I need it.

[0]: https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/what-about-00-09/

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chipsa

jen729w 4 years ago

:-)

Also recently I’ve been starting my IDs at `.11`. Same idea — sometimes you really want stuff to always appear ‘at the front’ and this lets you achieve that.

In the project system I’m setting up now, for example, we’re using the PMP methodology [0]. This very neatly divides up in to:

    21 Scope
    22 Schedule
    23 Cost
    ...
    29 Stakeholder

For each of these, you have a [x] Management Plan. They always sit at `2x.01`. Other mandatory artefacts will live in the zeros.

Then I won’t fill up the zeros, I’ll skip straight to .11 in each category for the things that are ‘personal’ to this particular project. I’m expecting that they will not be standard across projects.

[0]: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp