Thread by @Roamfu

#RoamGames 1/ ROAM VS OTHER "PROJECT MANAGEMENT" SOFTWARE

In this thread:
- PM is much more than task coordination
- Roam vs the world
- @Mappletons tags + {{diagram}} video

Here's a breakdown of a PM's work. The colored tags are software I'd use for each of these work packages

2/ @Conaw I know you guys are aiming for world domination, but there is so much territory in the world of project management outside the much contested domain of traditional "PM" software, which are actually project teamwork and communication software

3/ Software like Asana, Trello and Basecamp are many times called project management software. It is more accurate to call them project teamwork software. They mainly help in coordinating tasks and team communication. Slack is also sometimes called PM software, it is more of a...

4/ ...communications channel, like email, chat and the telephone. As you could see in the image, PM is so much more than just task coordination and communication.

Roam does not really have a lot of overlap with teamwork and communication apps.

5/ I'd use Roam for what it was designed for: a tool for thought, and use whatever teamwork and comms tool my team is used to.

What feels like a real upgrade is using Roam for the project management [[algorithms of thought]] that I discuss in the rBook: pm-fu.com

6/ As you could see in this image, my main tools for PM [[algorithms of thought]] prior to Roam was anything I could write on, like word processors.

Roam could also replace Dropbox, Drive and Box as repositories of project documents.

7/ The advantages of using Roam over word processors is similar to its advantages in academic work:

- source documents, templates and guides could be positioned at the side-bar and are just a page or block reference away
- block references!

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1346749445837180930

8/ But Roam could be like a foreign language for those who don't use it. Documents are easier to access, understand, and collaborate on for non-Roam users if it is in a a more widely used format (eg, Google sheets or PDF). Let's show Dave some support!

https://twitter.com/daveludavelu/status/1349536986432905216

9/ This last image shows project work I'd do with a wiki or a spreadsheet or a mindmap.

Roam could be used to store project knowledge instead of a wiki or Google drive. But you'd want change history for bigger teams.

10/ There are some tasks best done in a spreadsheet (eg, most of cost management). There are some [[algorithms of thought]] that could be done both in Roam and in spreadsheets (eg, risk management).

11/ I like how I could just option-drag blocks in risk scoring and response planning. loom.com/share/43d87b4b…

But like documents that need to be shared to a non-Roaman team, I had to translate my risk register to Google sheets for sharing.

12/ I was a huge mindmap user in the past, particularly for scope and risk identification and monitoring. The hierarchy of blocks has exactly the same structure as a mindmap, and thanks to @dvargas92495 it can now be viewed as such.

https://twitter.com/dvargas92495/status/1350882265669259266

13/ The advantage of Roam over mindmaps apps are, again, easily pulling blocks (eg, work packages or risks) from notes and other documents at the sidebar. And each work package and risk could easily be turned into its own page.

14/ I had fun creating these diagrams lol

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Oh, by the way, here are the other #RoamGames threads for the rBook

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1354894771462934528