Gantt Chart

In our previous class, we have been thought about Gantt Chart by the ICT department again for the second time but this time in more detail than in the first class we had with them. After we finish the lesson with the IT department, we all receive a homework assessment about it in an easy three questions which is:

• What is a Gantt Chart?
• Why should we use them?
• Your top tips for using a Gantt Chart.

Without using any open information from the internet, I will try and do my best to answer all of the questions above with my understanding that I have gain from both of the class we had.

What is a Gantt Chart?

• A Gantt Chart is like it sounds like a chart where you can see a form of record about who is doing what or what can be done in which particular time or also what is happening in what time of the year which can be said it to be similar to a timeline-like kind of graph. It is basically a form of document that could help you to divide your time more accurately without you having to take any unnecessary time that could add more in the time you have in time and it can also give you information about the past and the present things that are happening around you.  

Why should we use them?

• Like it had been listed above, it is all about us dividing our time rationally, making our job easier in term of handing it in time, not over-due it when it is unnecessary for us to do so. A group project is the best example of why we should use it. In there, using the Gantt Chart, you can divide each people for their personal job. If the member of the group is bigger than three or four people, the Gantt Chart can be use to differentiate each person job in a more simpler way than using a normal chart since it can be included with the due time of the work and it also tells us when to start the work if it is a must for you to wait for another person to finish the first task first. 

 

Your top tips for using a Gantt Chart.

• Using a Gantt Chart can be difficult at times since you have to understand how the technology or how the system works before you can proceed to the next step for example, how do you create a starting point of date and also how you can put the due date of that particular project but for me and my team, being the new technology generation we are, it is quite easy to operate. Despite all the complication, Gantt Chart is a good way to help us in terms of timing ourself up to the due date and also how to learn about working in a team. For the job to be easy for you to use, it is good if you read the information about it either online or doing it by reading. If you are using it individually, it is good if you divide all those works you had in times of how much the importance it is which is in one way or you can also divide it in the number of orders you have to do it in. For a group project, there are ways in which you can divide each people by colours so do that you can see the things that you should do and also in advantage, when you have to do it. If the one particular cases, there are times where you have to wait for the person before you to finish their part before you can start yours, the Gantt Chart can also show the percentages they are in, in order for you to prepare your job after them. Also in advantage, the Gantt Chart can tell you which job can be done at the same time so that the time you have in hand can be reduce by at least a tad much so that you can spend the extra time of starting a new project or any other things that could be done in an advance, since you have already finish the said project.