The bar plan provides a clear view for smaller projects
The bar plan is better under the name of its inventor, the management consultant Henry L. Gantt (1861 - 1919), known, is often used in project management. In particular, in the case of smaller projects, you can use the Gantt chart very clearly in Excel, the different time steps. In addition, the bar plan has the great advantage that it can very quickly and easily change.
- The Gantt chart consists of the Ordinate and the abscissa.
- On the Ordinate - Y-axis called - they represent the individual phases of the project.
- The abscissa - which is referred to as the X-axis - contains sections of the temporal sequence of the Project.
- Accordingly, you decompose your project into manageable phases of the project.
- The individual phases of the project, then enter in chronological order with each other on the Y-axis.
- In the process, it is recommended to be because of the better Clarity is always a blank line between each of the Stepps-free.
- Then, you visualize using bar on the X-axis is the respective duration of the individual phases of the project.
- The so-called "critical path" - part sections, which depend directly from each other - is usually marked with an arrow.
Example of a Gannt chart in Excel
And carried out the project "computer network for the new emergency ambulance was planned". Of course, our Mini-example, is relatively coarse, but it clearly shows how the Bar chart is created.
- First of all, we divided our project into individual sub-phases.
- We start with the selection of hardware and Software, in coordination with the specialist Department.
- Next, the setup of the hardware and Software in the newly constructed outpatient clinic.
- We end with the Handover to the Department.
- The times are fairly generous, and it is to be additionally scheduled in two days time buffer, the yellow are marked.
- The "critical path" was working between the end of the building and the beginning of the test phase set.
Example of the Gantt chart
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