Representation of projects

1. GANTT CHART

2. INTRODUCTION
O During the era of scientific management ,a Gantt
chart is developed as a production control tool in
1917 by Henry L. Gantt, an American engineer &
social scientist.
O A Gantt chart provides a graphical illustration of a
schedule that helps to plan, coordinate & track
specific tasks in a project.
O The horizontal axis of the Gantt chart is a time scale
, expressed either in absolute time or in relative time
referenced to the beginning of the project.

3. DEFINTION
O A GANTT chart is a type of horizontal bar chart
that illustrates a project schedule.
O After the PERT/CPM analysis is completed, the
following phase is to construct the GANTT chart
and then to re-allocate resources and re-
schedule if necessary.

4. USES OF GANTT CHART
O To show the current schedule status.
O To measure task duration in the project.
O To represent cost, time and scope of the project.
O A useful tool for planning and scheduling project.
O To plan how long a project should take.
O Lays out the order in which the tasks need to be
carried out.

5. O Modern Gantt charts software provides
dependencies between tasks.
O To monitor a project’s progress.
O To visualize immediately what should have been
achieved at any point in time.
O To assist in taking remedial action to bring the
project back on course, if required.

6. NURSING ACTIONS FOR A PROJECT
O Gather data
O Analyze data
O Develop a plan
O Implement the plan
O Evaluation, feedback, and modification.
O Application of these controlling process by nurse
managers would be specific to the project or
program.
O The nurse manager’s goal is to complete each
activity or phase on or before the projected date.

8. CONSTRUCTION OF GANTT CHART
The steps to construct a GANTT chart:
O Schedule the critical tasks in the correct position.
O Place the time windows in which the non-critical
tasks can be scheduled.
O Schedule the non-critical tasks according to their
earliest starting times.
O Indicate precedence relationships between tasks.

10. STEPS
O Identify the Purpose.
O Define the Project Timeline.
O Break the Project Down into Manageable Pieces.
O Create Progress Bars
O Define the Critical Path.
O Add Milestone Markers.
O A progress bar is simply a horizontal bar that
should be in line with the task name it represents
and should begin beneath its start date and end
beneath its end date.

11. PURPOSES
O To show the current schedule status.
O To measure task duration in the project.
O To represent cost, time and scope of the
project.
O A useful tool for planning and scheduling
project.
O To plan how long a project should take.
O Lays out the order in which the tasks need to
be carried out.

12. OModern Gantt charts software provides
dependencies between tasks.
OTo monitor a project’s progress.
OTo visualize immediately what should
have been achieved at any point in
time.
OTo assist in taking remedial action to
bring the project back on course, if
required.

13. LIMITATIONS
O Gantt charts, because of their success, form
the most easy to use and the most widely
used scheduling tools. But these charts are
also accompanied with some limitation.
O In such charts, it is very necessary to keep on
updating the charts, in order to keep it in
current form.
O The charts is not able to directly reveal the
costs of the alternate loadings.

14. LIMITATIONS
O These charts also do not consider the varying
processing times among work centers.
O Other limitations include the inability to include
certain constraints like time, scope, and costs.

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