This document discusses different visualization techniques for tracking project progress: - A Gantt chart provides a simple bar chart to track scheduled activity dates, durations, floats, and reported progress. The today cursor indicates which activities are ahead or behind schedule. - A slip chart more clearly shows activities that are not progressing as scheduled, with greater slippage bending the slip line more. A very jagged slip line indicates a need to reschedule. - A timeline chart displays how targets have changed over the project duration, with planned time on the horizontal axis and elapsed time on the vertical. Meandering lines represent changing scheduled completion dates. Timelines are useful for execution and post-project review.

1. Visualizing Progress
By, Shanmugapriya,AP/KEC

2. • Manager needs a way to present that data to greatest effect.
• Gantt Chart
• Slip Chart
• Timeline
• Gantt Chart:
• Simplest and oldest technique for tracking the project progress
• Activity bar chart indicating scheduled activity dates and durations, activity
floats,
• Reported progress is recorded on the chart .
• Today cursor provides an immediate visual indication of which activities are
ahead or behind schedule.

4. • Slip Chart:
• Provides a more striking visual indication of those activities that are not
progressing to schedule.
• The more slip line bends the greater the variation from the plan.
• Project manager will gain an idea to whether the project is improving or not.
• Very jagged slip line indicated a need for rescheduling.

6. • Timeline:
• One of the disadvantage of charts are they do not show clearly the slippage of
the project completion date through the life of the project.
• Time line chart is a method of recording and displaying the way in which
targets have changed throughout the duration of the project.
• Planned time is plotted- horizontal axis and elapsed time down the vertical
axis.
• Lines meandering down the chart represent scheduled activity completion
dates.
• Timeline charts is useful both during the execution of a project and as a psrt
of the post-implementation review.
• Analysis of timeline chart- reasons for the changes, can indicate failures in the
estimation process, errors, to be avoided in future.