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Gantt Charts: Structure, Scheduling, History, and Limits

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Summary

A Gantt chart turns a project schedule into a visual timeline. It helps project teams see what work must be done, how long activities are expected to take, and when they are planned to start and finish.

A Gantt chart is a bar chart used to illustrate a project schedule. The chart places tasks on the vertical axis and time intervals on the horizontal axis. Each task is represented by a horizontal bar.

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What is a Gantt chart?
A bar chart that displays project activities against a timeline, including their scheduled start and finish dates and durations.
How are tasks and time arranged in a Gantt chart?
Tasks are listed on the vertical axis, and time intervals run along the horizontal axis.
What does the horizontal length of a task bar show?
It shows the planned duration of that activity.
What was Adamiecki's harmonogram?
A planning tool developed in 1896 that was an early form of chart resembling a Gantt chart.
Why did software make Gantt charts easier to use?
Software made charts easier to create, revise when schedules changed, and share through web-based collaborative applications.

Quiz questions

  1. Task C cannot begin until task A is complete. What is task A in relation to task C?Answer: A predecessor
  2. A task has optimistic time 2 days, most likely time 5 days, and pessimistic time 8 days. Using TE=O+4M+P6TE = \frac{O + 4M + P}{6}, what is its expected time?Answer: 5 days
  3. In a progress Gantt chart, how is a task that is 60% complete typically shaded?Answer: The leftmost 60% of its bar is shaded.
  4. What does the TODAY line indicate on a progress Gantt chart?Answer: The current date or time index
  5. What is a common readability problem when many dependency lines are added to a Gantt chart?Answer: The chart can become cluttered.

Based on the Wikipedia article Gantt chart, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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