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Will You Add? - Project Management - Why I Love Gantt Charts
I was losing sleep over this, so you can imagine how grave my concern is. The business I was setting up required dedicated effort and since this is my baby I was giving extra attention to it. Now my only area of concern was publicity about the business and I want it to be impeccable, like any business owner. Now there are different methods that ar
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in o
Are you a local business owner? Whether you run a grocery store, a clothing store, a jewelry store, or even a tax preparation service, there is a good chance that the majority of your marketing is focused on your local community. Although local advertising is a necessity, there is something that you may not know. Your local community is likely tu
1. Communication: everyone can see the project, where they fit in, and why if they go late they will affect others.
2. Monitoring progress - by colouring in the Gantt chart you can make sure you're keeping up with the Today line, and you can take action as required if you're not keeping up (crashing tasks, slipping the programme, whatever). Without a coloured-in Gantt chart you can only say you're about half way through and probably on schedule - not good enough! Your weekly or monthly progress meetings will probably be based around the Gantt chart (you do have these don't you??)
3. Planning loading - by looking vertically you can see the weeks or months when everything is going to hit at once, so you can slide some of the floating tasks to reduce the peaks, and even if you can't level out the peaks you can plan accordingly - extra people, overtime, or taking longer over the project.
4. The big loading over-view: you can add up all your projects and make sure that the department as a whole will be able to cope with the total planned workload and therefore keep it's promises. And of course if it can't you can use this loading plan to either get the customers to choose which project they want first (they can't have them all) or to lobby for more resources using logic and without appearing negative or pessimistic.
5. The Gantt chart can be used to generate a predicted cost curve, since it shows the amount of labour and the moments of capital expenditure during the project. then, during the project, you can make sure you stick to the plan. Without a predicted cost curve you are reduced to hoping that the rate of expenditure will be approximately linear - unlikely!
6. Interpreting cost figures: the accountants are telling you that you're underspent: but is that good? Only if you're keeping up with progress! More likely you're running late and that's why you're underspent. Maybe you're a long way behind, and for the work you have done you're OVER spent? The Gantt chart is the only way you can know this.
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in o
If you sought near term investment returns that were lucrative and dividend paying, would you select a poorly performing stock, like that of GM? On the other hand, if you could experience a return on investment based on GM's sale of vehicles paying a little piece of revenue to you every time there was a car sold, an investment in GM may be
3. Planning loading - by looking vertically you can see the weeks or months when everything is going to hit at once, so you can slide some of the floating tasks to reduce the peaks, and even if you can't level out the peaks you can plan accordingly - extra people, overtime, or taking longer over the project.
4. The big loading over-view: you can add up all your projects and make sure that the department as a whole will be able to cope with the total planned workload and therefore keep it's promises. And of course if it can't you can use this loading plan to either get the customers to choose which project they want first (they can't have them all) or to lobby for more resources using logic and without appearing negative or pessimistic.
5. The Gantt chart can be used to generate a predicted cost curve, since it shows the amount of labour and the moments of capital expenditure during the project. then, during the project, you can make sure you stick to the plan. Without a predicted cost curve you are reduced to hoping that the rate of expenditure will be approximately linear - unlikely!
6. Interpreting cost figures: the accountants are telling you that you're underspent: but is that good? Only if you're keeping up with progress! More likely you're running late and that's why you're underspent. Maybe you're a long way behind, and for the work you have done you're OVER spent? The Gantt chart is the only way you can know this.
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in o
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4. The big loading over-view: you can add up all your projects and make sure that the department as a whole will be able to cope with the total planned workload and therefore keep it's promises. And of course if it can't you can use this loading plan to either get the customers to choose which project they want first (they can't have them all) or to lobby for more resources using logic and without appearing negative or pessimistic.
5. The Gantt chart can be used to generate a predicted cost curve, since it shows the amount of labour and the moments of capital expenditure during the project. then, during the project, you can make sure you stick to the plan. Without a predicted cost curve you are reduced to hoping that the rate of expenditure will be approximately linear - unlikely!
6. Interpreting cost figures: the accountants are telling you that you're underspent: but is that good? Only if you're keeping up with progress! More likely you're running late and that's why you're underspent. Maybe you're a long way behind, and for the work you have done you're OVER spent? The Gantt chart is the only way you can know this.
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in o
In today’s very competitive world of business, one might wonder which department is crucial to the business’s growth, value and longevity. There will be those who might guess the actual employees that produce the service or product, perhaps those that are in an executive leadership role, etc. Would you be surprised to learn that Human Resources a
5. The Gantt chart can be used to generate a predicted cost curve, since it shows the amount of labour and the moments of capital expenditure during the project. then, during the project, you can make sure you stick to the plan. Without a predicted cost curve you are reduced to hoping that the rate of expenditure will be approximately linear - unlikely!
6. Interpreting cost figures: the accountants are telling you that you're underspent: but is that good? Only if you're keeping up with progress! More likely you're running late and that's why you're underspent. Maybe you're a long way behind, and for the work you have done you're OVER spent? The Gantt chart is the only way you can know this.
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in o
The management mantra of the 1980s was product quality, and activities involving Quality Control (QC) circles, Total Quality Management (TQM) and ISO 9000 were the order of the day. Back then, consumers were willing to spend enormous sums for quality products. However, product quality has significantly improved and today having a good quali
6. Assessing whether subcontractors know what they are doing - ask to see their Gantt chart - they do have one don't they? If not - worry! During the project have a regular meeting to see how the colouring-in of progress is getting on.
7. Blowing your own trumpet - why not show your boss and your customers that you are in control, that you know what's going on with your project
So there we are: Gantt charts: go on, you know you want one!
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