{"id":2058,"date":"2025-05-09T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:22:37","slug":"activity-naming-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2025\/05\/09\/activity-naming-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity Naming Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Improve readability in your schedule output<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"296\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Activity-Naming-Convention-1.jpg?resize=840%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Activity-Naming-Convention-1.jpg?w=989&amp;ssl=1 989w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Activity-Naming-Convention-1.jpg?resize=300%2C106&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Activity-Naming-Convention-1.jpg?resize=768%2C271&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you really want your PMs to throw your schedules in the trash, make your activity descriptions hard to read. One naming convention I use is to place the &#8220;Subject&#8221; before the &#8220;Action&#8221;. In the figure above, the 2 WBS nodes show activities created from the same fragnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the top node, the scheduler, pasted the &#8220;Roadway M&#8221; to the end of the fragnet description. Although this might be faster, it typically detracts from the readability of each activity. &nbsp;In the bottom node, &#8220;Roadway M&#8221; was abbreviated as &#8220;Rdwy M&#8221; and placed before the action item. Note how much easier it is to read, making your schedule easier for the user to comprehend. This is a simple example but imagine a more extensive fragnet with longer action descriptions easily making things worse. Don&#8217;t be lazy; spend the extra time to format your activity descriptions in a more readable way. Not only will your schedules be better understood by your audience, but you&#8217;ll stand out as a premier P6 scheduler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 2012-2025 FoxQuest Systems, Inc. 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One naming convention I use is to place the &#8220;Subject&#8221; before the &#8220;Action&#8221;. In the figure above, the 2 WBS nodes show activities created from the same fragnet. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2025\/05\/09\/activity-naming-convention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activity Naming Convention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}