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What is a Gantt Chart? Gantt Chart Software, Information, and History

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Find information about Gantt charts, gantt chart software, the history of Gantt charts and how they are used in project management.

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~ By Duncan Haughey

A Gantt chart, Logic Network, PERT chart, Product Breakdown Structure and Work Breakdown Structure are standard tools used in project planning. What follows is a short definition for each:

Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is a popular project management bar chart that tracks tasks across time. When first developed in 1917, the Gantt chart did not show the relationships between the tasks. Since then, it has become common to track both time and interdependencies between tasks, which is now its everyday use.

Since their first introduction, Gantt charts have become an industry standard. They are an important project management tool used for showing the phases, tasks, milestones and resources needed as part of a project.

One of the first uses was on America's Hoover Dam project started in 1931.

Logic Network

A Logic Network indicates the sequence of activities in a project over time. It shows which activity logically precedes or follows another activity. It can be used to identify the milestones and critical path of a project. It will help you understand the dependencies in your project, timescale, and its workflow. Valuable information that you may otherwise overlook can be revealed using this technique.

PERT Chart

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique, commonly abbreviated to PERT is a model for project management developed by the United States Department of Defense's US Navy Special Projects Office in 1958 as part of the Polaris mobile submarine-launched ballistic missile project.

PERT is a method for analysing the tasks involved in completing a given project, especially the time needed to complete each task and identifying the minimum time required to complete the total project.

Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

In project management, a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) is an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of components that make up a project deliverable, arranged in whole-part relationship.

A PBS can help clarify what is to be delivered by the project and can contribute to building a work breakdown structure.

The PRINCE2 project management method suggests the use of product based planning, part of which is developing a Product Breakdown Structure.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) created the Work Breakdown Structure concept as part of the Polaris mobile submarine-launched ballistic missile project.

A Work Breakdown Structure is a hierarchical decomposition of the deliverables needed to complete a project. It breaks the deliverables down into manageable work packages that can be scheduled, costed and have people assigned to them. A Work Breakdown Structure is a standard project management tool and the basis for much project planning.

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By Duncan Haughey A Gantt chart, Logic Network, PERT chart, Product Breakdown Structure and Work Breakdown Structure are standard tools used in project planning. What follows is a short definition for each: A Gantt chart is a popular project management bar chart that tracks tasks across time.

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Critical Path Analysis
https://www.mindtools.com/critpath.html -
Explains Critical Path Analysis

http://www.gantt.com/
Explains what  Gantt charts and how they are developed

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Project Management Tools | Project Smart

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A collection of twenty essential project management skills, methods, tools and competencies needed for success.

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Project Management Tools:

A Gantt chart, Logic Network, PERT chart, Product Breakdown Structure and Work Breakdown Structure are standard tools used in project planning.

https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/project-management-tools.php

Critical path analysis
Critical path analysis is a technique that identifies the activities necessary to complete a task, including identifying the time necessary to complete each activity and the relationships between the activities. Also known as the critical path method, critical path analysis helps to predict if a project will finish on time.

Read more: Critical Path Analysis Definition | Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/critical-path-analysis.asp#ixzz4HarKPIOG

Planning

GANTT Charts
A Gantt chart is a popular project management bar chart that tracks tasks across time. When first developed in 1917, the Gantt chart did not show the relationships between the tasks. Since then, it has become common to track both time and interdependencies between tasks, which is now its everyday use.

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https://products.office.com/en-gb/project/project-and-portfolio-management-software

Microsoft Project allows users to manage and allocate projects, materials and time to staff.

https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/tools.php

Project Management Tools. A Gantt chart, Logic Network, PERT chart, Product Breakdown Structure and Work Breakdown Structure are standard tools used in project planning.

http://business.everestcollege.edu/articles/7-essential-strategies-of-successful-project-management

7 Essential Strategies of Successful Project Management

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130729060735-64875646-shhh-the-top-5-management-tools-in-the-world
- Strategic Planning (https://balancedscorecard.org/Resources/Strategic-Planning-Basics)
- Customer Relationship Management (http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/CRM)
- Employee Engagement Surveys

- Benchmarking (https://www.strategicmanagementinsight.com/tools/benchmarking.html)

- Balanced Scorecard

http://www.bain.com/publications/business-insights/management-tools-and-trends.aspx
- Outsourcing
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Supply Chain Management
- Change Management Programs
- Customer Segmentation
http://www.skymark.com/resources/tools/management_tools.asp - Other management tools

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Strategic Planning -  Godet, Michel. "The art of scenarios and strategic planning: tools and pitfalls." Technological forecasting and social change 65.1 (2000): 3-22.

Customer Relationship Management - Knox, Simon, et al. Customer relationship management. Routledge, 2007.

Employee Engagement Surveys - Saks, Alan M. "Antecedents and consequences of employee engagement." Journal of managerial psychology 21.7 (2006): 600-619.

Benchmarking - Fernandez, Pavel, Ian Paul McCarthy, and Thierry Rakotobe-Joel. "An evolutionary approach to benchmarking." Benchmarking: An International Journal 8.4 (2001): 281-305.

Balanced Scorecard - Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system." (1996).

Gantt Chart - Wilson, James M. "Gantt charts: A centenary appreciation." European Journal of Operational Research 149.2 (2003): 430-437.

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https://www.mindtools.com/critpath.html
Explains Critical Path analysis and Gantt Charts
https://www.mango.org.uk/guide/bmrexample
Has an example of a budget monitoring report

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- Data collection tools

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Data gathering & representation techniques

Interviewing–You can carry out interviews in order to gather an optimistic (low), pessimistic (high), and most likely scenarios.

Probability distributions– Continuous probability distributions are used extensively in modeling and simulations and represent the uncertainty

https://success.clarizen.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203996208-Risk-Management-Useful-Tools-and-Techniques

Nasa
• Continuous Risk Management Process
• NASA Risk Management Requirements
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
http://fmea-fmeca.com/nasa-risk-management.pdf