Chart Basics

Paul Morris

CIS144

Gantt Charts

Gantt charts are essentially bar graphs that help plan and monitor project development, resource allocation, or event scheduling on a horizontal time scale.

Typically, Gantt charts indicate the duration of project tasks, but they can also be used to indicate, for example, the relationship between tasks, the cost of each task, the person or persons responsible for each task, and the milestones in a project's development.

Gantt charts are often used by supervisors to schedule employee work shifts, easily indicating at a glance how many workers are on duty at any given time.Similarly, Gantt charts can show the demand for resources over time:

Gantt Chart Elements The basic graphic elements required to make a Gantt chart include tables, Gantt bars, milestone markers, and link lines.

Flowcharts

A flowchart is a diagram that illustrates the steps in a process. By allowing you to visualize the process, a flowchart can quickly help identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies where the process can be streamlined or improved.

Flowcharts use special shapes to represent different types of actions or steps in a process. Lines with arrowheads indicate the flow of the process from one step to another.

A complete flowchart always identifies the starting and ending points of a process, the sequence of actions in the process, and the decision or branching points along the way.