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Gantt Charts
3.3.1
Manage Your Time
This presentation covers
• What is a Gantt Chart?
• Why are they used?
• How to create one.
Introduction• We already know that managing a project can be a difficult task.
• There are a lot of things that need to happen before a system is ready to ship out.
• We have looked at how CPA diagrams can help us understand what tasks need to be completed and in which order...but sometimes these can be a more of a burden to use.
• Gantt Charts offer most of the same information in a more user friendly way.
What is a Gantt Chart?
This chart helped me plan when and how I was going to teach each topic from The Systems Cycle chapter of the syllabus.
What is a Gantt Chart?
This red line shows the total length of the syllabus topic.
The blue bars show how much time would be given to each sub-topic.
These blue linking bars show that each topic is dependant on the completion of the previous topic.
What is a Gantt Chart?
• It is a model which shows:
– Milestones:• Important checkpoints within a project.
– Resources:• Some charts have additional information which shows
who will be working on a particular task.
What is a Gantt Chart?
• It is a model which shows:
– Status:• You can include % complete lines which overlap the
task bar. When a task is complete the line should completely overlap a task.
– Dependencies:• If a task is dependant on the completion of a previous
task then this can be indicated by linking the task bars.
Try this...
• When we looked at Critical Path Analysis you had to make a cup of tea...
• Make a Gantt Chart for the same process.
B D2 min
Boil kettle
C1 min
Put tea bagin tea pot
A
1 min
Fill kettle
1 min
Pour waterinto pot
E
F
G2 min
Brew tea
1 min
Get mugsready