Henry Gantt: Work, Wages & Profits

Posted by Steve Wilheir under Gantt Charts, Project Management

Work, Wages and Profits by Henry Gantt ,  a book originally written for employers advocates the “efficient utilization of labor”.  Gantt advises the use of the “task and bonus” system is offered in order to have workers increase their output. Total work packages are divided into “tasks” and split among the workforce to allow for [...]

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Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

Posted by Steve Wilheir under Gantt Charts, MS Project Tips

Here’s a handy tip when you want to draw a Gantt chart , if you’d like to show the relative week number from the project start next to milestone tasks in the WBS of the Gantt chart.  You need to insert a calculated text field with to handle this.
Right click on the column header

Select “Insert [...]

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Mac Gantt Chart Software Review – Merlin 2.5

Posted by Steve Wilheir under Gantt Charts, Gantt Charts for Mac, Gantt chart software

I am a Project Manager at KPMG and I create a lot of Gantt charts to convey project schedules.  It’s important to me to have solid Gantt chart software for this process.
As you all know, I abhor MS Project  because of its lack of intuitiveness as well as stove piping a certain way of [...]

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.Net Gantt Chart Component

Posted by Steve Wilheir under .Net Gannt Charts, Gantt Charts

ASE looks like they have a pretty nice component for embedding in .Net applications.   It appears that it will work in ASP.Net as well, which is pretty hot.
Check out their chart gallery of how it works when using it for Gantt Charts.
The Gannt Chart versions don’t look as hot as some of the others [...]

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Gantt Charts and Pert Charts for Non-Project Managers

Posted by Steve Wilheir under Gantt Charts, Gantt chart software, Project Management

How do you handle working with a company full of people who don’t understand what it takes to truly manage a project?  When they want to manage a project, but couldn’t tell you the difference between a Gantt and PERT chart? When they don’t want to resource load and distribute shared assets across the [...]

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