I have chosen tasks for the first Caster milestone. You can see them here. These come from a much larger collection of tasks that I made a few months back with time estimates in hours for completion. I plan to update their status once a week on the web site as part of my accountability and visible progress.
One trick to successful scheduling is to be able to cut features to meet your deadlines–usually based on amount of effort relative to importance. This can be quite painful for engineering types like myself. I console myself with the fact that I can always stick them on the backlog and maybe address them at a future date where more time is made available. In reality, they seldom ever end up getting done, but at least the project does!
