Side projects

Small experiments in project and programme thinking. Start with a question, try a model, or browse a collection.

These are exploratory tools and toy models, not validated delivery methods.

Gimmer projects

Gimmer: processes to plans

How can Petri-net processes become a WBS and schedule?

Lawrence’s main Petri → SMC → WBS collection: related models, generators and explanations, including earlier experiments.

  • processes
  • wbs
  • schedule

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Gimmer: higher-autonomy experiments

How far can repeated agent-led experiments advance the same aim?

A parallel Petri → SMC → WBS investigation. Agents choose bounded next steps and repeat build, test and review loops as compute permits.

  • processes
  • wbs
  • higher autonomy

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Gimmer: broader collection

What other project questions can the Gimmer scenario explore?

Observation, binding, procurement, ontology and change experiments outside the Petri → SMC → WBS collection and higher-autonomy work.

  • observation
  • procurement
  • ontology
  • change

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Playgrounds & libraries

Functors for Projects

How might mathematical structures illuminate project work?

Browse experiments in functors, adjoints, sheaves, wiring diagrams and project examples.

  • category theory
  • models
  • project management

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Bricklaying a Rotunda

How can we explore changing project states?

A collection of experiments around project dynamics, lenses and trajectories.

  • dynamics
  • models
  • category theory

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Building a Wall

How do smaller parts and agreements compose?

A playground for compositional models, project wiring and contracts-as-algebras.

  • composition
  • models
  • category theory

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Project Web Apps

Which small tool helps explain a project problem?

The general collection of standalone project-management tools and interactive examples.

  • project management
  • tools

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React Project Apps

Which interactive model makes a project question clearer?

The companion collection of richer project simulations and interactive models.

  • project management
  • models
  • tools

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Tag Concurrence Graph

Which concepts occur together in a reading collection?

The broader concepts-graph explorer, including views beyond the featured Portfolio Wave map.

  • knowledge graphs
  • sources

Browse collection

Other side projects

CSV to Gantt

Can a simple table become a Gantt chart?

A side project created by ChatGPT's Operator using Deep Research and Codex.

Origin: ChatGPT's Operator

  • gantt
  • csv
  • side project

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For individual tools from the two general app libraries, use the All Project Apps catalogue.