It took us about 3 or 4 contests to get a good one worked up. The first thing I did was create a timeline for each of the four meats seperately. I started at the begining with trimming and went through every step, up to and including boxing the meat at the end. Then I merged all four into an Excel sheet and added some other stuff like lighting the fire in the cooker and making boxes. Each item has a check box to ensure we have done every step or to make sure that a step wasn't done twice. We used it for the first time a few years ago, adding a few things and it took some time to get it down. We still make revisions based on each contest. It really is our best tool.