Transcript Gantt Chart Basics

Chart Basics
Paul Morris
CIS144
Gantt Charts
Gantt charts are essentially bar graphs
that help plan and monitor project
development, resource allocation, or event
scheduling on a horizontal time scale.
Typically, Gantt charts indicate the duration of project
tasks, but they can also be used to indicate, for
example, the relationship between tasks, the cost of
each task, the person or persons responsible for each
task, and the milestones in a project's development.
Gantt charts are often used by supervisors to schedule
employee work shifts, easily indicating at a glance how
many workers are on duty at any given time.
Similarly, Gantt charts can show the demand for
resources over time:
Gantt Chart Elements
The basic graphic elements required to make a
Gantt chart include tables, Gantt bars, milestone
markers, and link lines.
Flowcharts
A flowchart is a diagram that illustrates the steps in
a process. By allowing you to visualize the process,
a flowchart can quickly help identify bottlenecks or
inefficiencies where the process can be
streamlined or improved.
Flowcharts use
special shapes
to represent
different types of
actions or steps
in a process.
Lines with
arrowheads
indicate the flow
of the process
from one step to
another.
A complete
flowchart always
identifies the
starting and
ending points of
a process, the
sequence of
actions in the
process, and the
decision or
branching points
along the way.