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Why I Love Gantt Charts

January 20, 2008

Do you have a Gantt chart for each one of your projects, on your wall? (By the way, a Gantt chart is just a chart with time along the horizontal and the tasks drawn on as long thin boxes). If you don’t already use them, here’s why I think... Read more...

The Many Gantt Chart Views

January 10, 2008

Did you know that Project ships 8 Gantt chart views?  I thought I'd take today to go into what each one displays.  To get to most of these views you'll need to go to the View menu - More Views dialog. Gantt Chart - This is the plain Gantt chart. Bar... Read more...

Improve Project Management In 2008: Wear A Suit

December 18, 2007

To be a successful Project Manager in 2008, wear a suit, print a Gantt chart and get PMP certified. It is what everybody outside our profession seems to expect from us. We, Project Managers, radiate to the outside world our icons like Gantt Charts, two-digits... Read more...

The Death Of Gantt Charts?

December 15, 2007

A Gantt chart groups human resources with specific tasks. Further, it allows the project manager to identify dependencies between tasks, laying out the entire project in a timeline fashion. People championing the Gantt chart will tell you that it can... Read more...

Gantt

December 9, 2007

“Gantt” redirects here. For other uses, see Gantt (disambiguation). A Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications. A Gantt chart is a popular type of bar chart that illustrates... Read more...