Gantt Chart in Project Management

Gantt Chart History

The Gantt Chart was invented by Henry Laurence Gantt during the 1910’s. He passed away in 1919, but in the 1920’s, his charts started becoming an accepted visual aid for the progression and tracking of a project. By the 1950’s, his charts were being used in many major projects all over world.
He created the first Gantt chart for planning building ships in the times of First World War. The chart proved to be a powerful analytical instrument that it had not undergone any changes for many years. It was only in 90s of the last century when link lines between tasks were added to the Gantt chart.

Gantt Chart in Project Management

Load Charts and Project Planning Charts. Windows and Mac OS X Software.
Load Charts is the type of chart is useful for manufacturing projects during peak or heavy load periods. The format of Gantt Load Chart is very similar to the Gantt Project Planning Chart but, in this case, uses time as well as departments, machines or employees that have been scheduled.
Project Planning Chart addresses the time of individual work elements giving a time line for each activity of a project. As it can be seen in the figure. On the chart, everyone is able to see when each activity starts and finishes but there is no possibility to determine when each activity may start or if we can start a particular activity before finishing the immediate predecessor activity. Therefore, we need somehow know the precedence relationships between activities. This is the main reason for using the following tools instead of using exclusively Gantt Charts.

Visual Representation of Gantt Chart

Using the Gantt Chart software you can create and manage projects of unlimited size and length. Add and distribute as many resources as you need for your project.
Benefits of Gantt Chart Software for Windows and Mac OS X
• Speed – to make changes
• Flexibility – to look at alternatives
• Track many projects, each with many tasks
• Set and track milestones for your projects
• Communication – print reports or send software file to stakeholders or post results on web site
• Accuracy

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