Moving a plan from one format to another seems to me to be the kind of work a Medieval Scribe used to do.

I don’t have a cell, just the usual desk at the office and two plans. One an example of how it should be and the other written before the new format was devised. Not simply a change of font and presentation the old plan has to be reviewed and pushed and prodded into the new format with all it’s new tasks and dependencies.

The plans are printed out and with colour pens I’m trying to match them, seeing where things cross over and then moving one to the other, finding new resources on the new plan and checking that it all makes sense.

It’s not really the kind of work that I want to do but in the absence of any formal project planner it has to be done. It means I can work in the office and sit in some of the technical discussions on The Project as we work out how we can fit all the kit into the lab or listening to one conference call or another.

Probably in time I’m going to have to manage this plan. I can’t see the planners who should do this work (who declined this reformatting job on the basis it was too hard) wanting to take on the management and tracking of it.

At the moment that’s a log way off. As the afternoon drags on it’s time for Evensong and some more transcription.