Pinto Pm2 Ism Ch10 1

II. Planning Stage - PM meets with VP of Tech to go over spec. The two collaborate to create a Project Plan including a Gant Chart or equivalent to determine team member deadlines (individual initiatives) four launch.

It is basically a network diagram with multiple boxes with labels that represent events, and then directional lines which represent tasks. A number can be written underneath the directional lines to indicate the amount of time needed. For a group project that would last 2-3 months, I would use the Gantt chart. A Gantt chart can accomplish what a complicated PERT chart would do, it would be more pleasing towards the eye as there wouldn’t be so many moving parts in the assignment (I’m assuming this group project isn’t terribly complicated). Things that would be needed to be done simultaneously can easily be expressed and understood with a Gantt chart (overlap of bars and weeks). For example, on the y-axis of the Gantt chart, my group would list our activities: 1) Conduct research, 2) Analyze data and then 3) Prepare for presentation then present. On the x-axis, we would list the number of weeks needed (12 weeks in this case). The bar for 1) will span week 1 –

The Gantt chart is used for the scheduling of project tasks to show the start and finish dates, as well as the duration. This helps to see the duration for the entire project, making sure that there is no overlapping of the task to ensure there is no overlapping. The assistant manger is the main one to see the schedules follow through this will include the making sure the staff show up to their set schedules while the project also stays on track with the schedule. The Gantt chart is really great for the development of the schedule.

For the Week 6 Discussion you will create a Gantt chart for one element of the St. Dismas case study project. Using a project management tool like MS Project is typically the easiest and fastest way to do this. However, it is not the only way. You can use MS Office products as well to create the Gantt Chart.

Activity D lies on the critical path, therefore the early start date is 8/17/2012. A task that is aligned on the critical path with a "finish-start" orientation must start immediately after its predecessor activities are completed. Any delay of a task on the critical path directly extends the date of project completion.

So we will set up milestones that show deadlines the date, mean by finish a task which a milestone is a task with zero duration. We think that a milestone is most important in a log cabin project as it show important dates on the project plan and often key events, but it does not affect any of the Gantt chart calculations. Overall, the work breakdown structure (WBS) to make complex a log cabin project more management while the WBS is designed to help breakdown this project into manageable chunk that can be effectively estimated. Also a WBS helps to explain a log cabin project scope to the stakeholder, supplier and labor.

A) Gantt charts give a timeline and precedence relationships for each activity of a project.

We will submit weekly milestone reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The milestone repost for the project will base on information in the Gantt chart. An agenda for the project team meeting will develop to work through some of the challenges while facing in executing the project. Update the scope of the project while having some changes in the executing phase. We will develop detailed lists of assumptions and questions that all the project team has related to the new scope of the project.

1) Consider a project to build a bridge over a river gorge. What are some of the resource constraints that would make this project challenging?

Chapter 3 of Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World explains the techniques and steps required to build a project schedule using the Gantt chart view in MS Project. This appendix provides a similar explanation of how to build a project schedule, but it is based on using a PERT/CPM chart or diagram for the schedule format. A Gantt chart and a PERT/CPM chart both provide essentially the same information about project activities and tasks. Each chart has unique strengths and weaknesses. As you learned in Chapter 3, a Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that is superimposed on a calendar. The primary strength of a Gantt chart is that the bars show the

Examine the advantages of using a Gantt chart over a PERT chart and vice versa. Determine when it is appropriate to use one

[Projekt-Management und Gantt-Diagramm mit OpenOffice.org 2.0 Calc and Comment créer un diagramme de Gantt avec OpenOffice.org] [1.1] First editions: [2005-06-06 and 2003-01-03] First English edition: [2005-11-09]

Finish-to-start (FS): If you have two tasks A and B, you have to finish first task A and then start task B.

For example in the software development process, testing step unless until the design and implementation steps are completed. In this example the testing task has the predecessor, i.e., design and implementation task.

Project schedule can be calculated one of two ways: when we choose the Scheduling command or each time we make a change that affects schedule dates. The Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling technique is used to calculate project schedules. CPM uses activity durations and relationships between activities to calculate the project schedule.