PG wrote:

When you embark on a very difficult and complex project (like building
your first house for example), I guess it's helpful to have some
graphical system like a flow chart to plan the smooth progression and
coordination of the work. Can anyone recommend a shareware or freeware
software for this purpose? Or do you prefer to use pencil an paper?
Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

The opensource "Mr Project" is available for Gnome, not seen a win32
port but should be feasible, actually I remember it went a bit quiet
then came back with a new name

/me goes off to play with google for a while ...

Aha, it mutated into this
http://www.simpleprojectmanagement.c...nner/home.html

I'm sure M$ project has lots more bells and whistles, it's been years
since I used it and don't remember using them all even then, just the
basic stuff like dependencies and fixed milestones to give a nice Gantt
chart for the PHB ;-)