## Introduction As a freelancer, you discover suddenly that you can’t just focus on your basic knowledge. You need to manage current customers, but also the sales skills to get new orders and develop services for the future. You will have to do administration, accounting, submit tax returns, raise finance and more. This may be outside the scope of your core business, and so to survive, you may have to learn additional techniques. And keep those skills evolving. This site aims to discuss some of the ways to stand back and analyse your activity, take decisions, set strategic objectives and run projects to make it happen. ![[summary-mjl-tek.png]] ## Management methods These are some of the management methods we look at: The [[Getting Things Done management framework]] andnote taking using software such as Obsidian and Notion. The [[Eisenhower Matrix - A simple decision making tool]] to determine which activities and projects are urgent and important. The [[Plan Do Check Assess management method]] for continuous improvement and task management, thinking in terms of learning instead of fault and blame. ## Analysis and systems thinking We discuss ways to analyse your operations using: [[The Principles of Systems Analysis and Design]] to determine how systems operate, the actors involved, the process that transform the data that flows between them. And illustrate the result of analysis, based on the black box approach, in [[Systems Case Studies in UML]]. ## Our experience We have [[Experience as Analyst and Project Manager]] where we developed and managed databases in Microsoft Access. We used to offer [[Digitization of Super 8 film and Magnetic Tapes]], slides and negatives, glass plates, photos and documents, DVD duplication, and video editing, and spent many years doing technical and media translation, transcription, subtitling, and [[Website Localization and Translation]]. ## Contact Please do not hesitate to get in touch using the [[Contact details for mjl-tek]] by email, on Reddit, Facebook or Instagram. ![[tek-logo.jpg|200]]