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Project-Management with Gantt-Charts
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Overview
Gantt Charts are a way to graphically show progress of a project. Management of a project is
made easier if it is viewed as small manageable items where the dependencies are visually
illustrated, parallel processes are discovered, the overall processing time determined and
progress tracked. The tasks of a project can be quite complex and dependent on each other.
With a project management tool, such as a Gantt chart,all subtasks of a task can be viewed
graphically.
Extending Gantt charting for Project Management
In order to manage a project, still more information is needed. The progress of any task should
be tracked as a percentage of the task and displayed in the chart, and the dependencies of the
subtasks should also be documented. Furthermore the start-date should be determined
automatically based on these dependencies.
Controlling the Project
During any project, start by implementing several subtasks.
To begin a subtask, insert the start date in the column “Start”. Set the progress to a value
greater than zero (1% e.g.), so that “Update” will no longer change this date.
If a task is completed, insert the real End-date, delete the duration and set the progress to
100%. When calling “Update” the next time, the required duration will be calculated.
After each change in the table,invoke the macro ”Update” to update the table accordingly.