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What is a Gantt Chart?

GANTT CHART? Y SI LYHM WHAT IS THIS A type of bar chart to illustrate how long a project and its tasks planning projects and scheduling all tasks, resources, and milestones. Through Gantt charts, teams can will take. Useful SORCERY? define problems visually, and better work out solutions. TIMELINE OF THE GANTT CHART Joseph Priestly William 1765 Playfair 1786 Joseph Priestly makes the first known bar charts in his "Chart of Biography," which plots the lifetimes of 2,000 celebrities on a timeline." The precursor to Gantt charts. William Playfair develops a range of statistical graphics including: bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts. Uses it in his Commercial and Political Atlas. Another precursor to Gantt charts. Karol Adamiecki 1896 Henry L. Polish management researcher Karol Adamiecki invents the theory of work harmonization, which uses a graphic chart called the Harmonogram, meant for creating visual solutions to production problems. It causes a stir in Russian technical circles.' Gantt 1910 -1915 American engineer Henry L. Gantt invents the Gantt General Control Production Chart, used to plan and manage batch production in machine shops. Unlike European bar charts, his are able to track if projects are done on time. 1917 -1918 THE GANTT CHART Gantt's charts are used to oversee production of small arms and ammunition, as well as commercial shipping efforts for World War I, supporting General William Crozier. 1923 The term "Gantt chart" is first used in Wallace Clark's book The Gantt Chart, A Working Tool of Management. 1931 -1936 Gantt charts used to supervise the building of the Hoover Dam on the border between U.S. states Arizona and Nevada. 1980s Gantt charts help manage the 1956 -1991 construction of the interstate highway system in the U.S. Gantt charts experience a sudden resurgence in fame thanks to the birth of the software development industry and programming. ANATOMY OF A GANTT CHART Timeline Shows hours, days, weeks, months, quarters Vertical Red Line Indicates current date Arrows Month 1 Month 2 Show how tasks are dependent on one another Task 001 Username 01 Task 002 EVENT Task 003 Milestone Task 004 Username 02 Shows the due date of a project or end of important project phase Task 005 Username 03 Task 006 Bar Color In Wrike, blue tasks are Task 007 Bars active, red tasks are overdue, green tasks are completed Show full duration of a task. 5 BENEFITS OF GANTT CHARTS ONE VIEW GRASP DEPENDENCIES Complex project? Lots of tasks? Distill them into one view and get everyone on the same See how tasks are related, and whether a task needs a previous to-do to be completed (or started) before going forward. page. RESOURCE USAGE CLEAR SCHEDULING View which resources have been allocated and which are free to better manage costs, Deadlines are obvious. Every delay moves the plan back, with setbacks represented visually. Everyone knows exactly what needs to be done to keep your project on schedule. personnel, time, and venues. TRANSPARENCY Seeing who does which task – and where your progress stands – makes everyone accountable. Visibility makes it easier for team members to work together, share ideas, and lend each other a helping hand. SOURCES: BROUGHT TO YOU BY 1. Edward R. Marsh. "The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki." The Academy of Management Journal. http://www.jstor.org/stable/255537 Wrike 2. James M. Wilson. "Gantt charts: A centenary appreciation." European Journal of Operational Research. http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/-gibson/Teaching/CSC7003/ReadingMaterial/ Wilson03.pdf 3. Patrick Weaver. "Henry L Gantt, 1861 - 1919 Debunking the myths, a retrospective view of his work." PM World Journal. http://www.apm.org.uk/content/henry-gantt-%E2%80%93-debunking-myths Award-winning collaboration and project management software WRIKE.COM mll

What is a Gantt Chart?

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Gantt charts are a staple tool in project management. They show up in project binders, on boardroom walls, in project management software — all because they are able to visually convey what would ta...

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