Hey, what do you know – I finally had a productive day at home. I spent the morning reviewing cheap and free Project Management software. My goal: Avoid paying $400-$1000 for the large, market-dominating software. By lunchtime, I had narrowed things down to the freeware program Open Proj. Open Proj will never be confused with a great scheduling tool, but it’s certainly useful (better than doing things in Excel). It even exports into MS Project, so if I eventually get MS Project, my files will still be good.
I spent the afternoon creating a project template for a start-to-finish chip development (since I will be a Project Mgr., QA Mgr. & CAD/Layout Mgr. at Company #3 for the foreseeable future). In looking things over, Company #3 has a lot of work to do (which means mostly me). I’ve got to set-up several vendors and establish contact with the vendors who are already established. I must do this in addition to learning CAD/EDA software, refreshing my memory on QA/Reliability, and laying-out a chip.
I also renewed my business license today. I don’t know if I’ll use it much moving forward, but at least it will help at tax time (so long as I stay self-employed).
Day 155 mood: Satisfied.