Project planning software, such as Microsoft Project, is available to draw up project plans. It will take your information, in the form of lists of tasks, with deadlines, and milestones with dates, and put it into a visual form. It helps you to set out what you have got to do, how long it will take, and links between tasks.

It can also encourage you to over-complicate, and get lost in the detail, rather than focus on the big picture. The end result is likely to be a diagram of such complexity that nobody can understand it. You may therefore find it easier to use the process above, and then draw a simpler picture, such as a ‘bar and star’ chart.