Quote Originally Posted by Oogiem View Post
Project plans and supporting materials are not where next actions are located but are instead places you go for information to help you to make the decisions about what is the actual next action.
Yep, I never said all your next actions were supposed to be written in your project plans, it's where you GO for next actions.


Waiting for is a next action. I am waiting for an event from someone else. I just review them on a weekly basis in case I need to do something else, like call and ask for the info or send and e-mail or something else to move the project on.
Here's my point: When you have actions scattered across context lists, how do you know if each project has a next action. That means you constantly have to keep making sure there is concordance between project and action lists. And updating this once a week isn't nearly enough in the environment I work in (journalism/film production).

This is probably not a problem if you're in an electronic system, or if you have very few projects/actions.