The Gantt chart and the usage nowadays
From apppm
(Difference between revisions)
| Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
= Big Idea = | = Big Idea = | ||
== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||
| − | The first form of the Gantt chart was invented in 1890 and the man behind it was Karol Adamiecki <ref name=" | + | The first form of the Gantt chart was invented in 1890 and the man behind it was Karol Adamiecki <ref name="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Adamiecki">. 15 years later, it was the turn of Henry Gantt to develop a new version of this chart which took his name. The popularity of the new type of chart was so intensive in western countries that any other chart similar to this, tended to be associated with Henry Gantt, taking his name. |
= Application = | = Application = | ||
= Limitations = | = Limitations = | ||
Revision as of 14:41, 13 September 2015
Abstract
This abstract has been created on behalf of the course 42433 Advanced Engineering Project, Program and Portfolio Management E15 and the Wiki article that all the students have been enrolled to the course are assigned to write until 14/09/2015. The article has been defined and it should follow the following structure.
- Big Idea: In this chapter a description about Gantt chart will be given. More detail, a chronology about this project management tool and the fields that it is used. In addition to that, the theory that this tool is based on will be described and finally how this theory reflects on the use of Gantt chart
- Application: This is the second chapter of the Wiki article and here it will be explained how to use the Gantt chart. To be more effective the illustration of the methodology, an exercise with the whole solution is going to be provided and explained step by step. Finally in this step, the usage of the tool nowadays and how it has been changed with the passage of time will be explained.
- Limitations: This is the final chapter of the Wiki article and here it will be explained the drawbacks and benefits of using Gantt chart. Moreover wherever it is possible, claims about this critically reflects, are going to be based on the literature.
- Annotated bibliography: This is the literature that the article is based on. All the references (3-10) have to be reported and regarding this, a small abstract per reference should be written in order to explain where each of it has contributed for this article to be written.
Big Idea
Chronology
The first form of the Gantt chart was invented in 1890 and the man behind it was Karol Adamiecki [1]
Cite error:
<ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found
