the biggest organizers we had was our Gantt chart. It helped keep work organized along with keeping people accountable for their work. It also helps separate work to specific group members in each team. You were required yourself to update the Gantt chart after working on something to let the group know how much further we have. Every day in class, we would refer to Gantt chart to determine what we were working on for the day. Other things besides the Gantt chart were daily updates, not only were they
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NIGEL, Student ID: xxxxx Submission Date: 25th July 2014 Time-Phase Baseline, Gantt Chart and Project Scheduling Contents 1. Why is it critical to develop a time-phased baseline for a planning project and managing its performance? ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 2. 3. How does a Gantt Chart Differ from a Project Network Diagram? ........................................
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1. Draw a Gantt chart for the construction phase of the program. What is the completion date if construction starts in March? What is the completion date of the project if construction is started in November? If the project is started on March 1st, 2012, the finish date is July 30th, 2013. For the November start date, the case does not mention exactly what date the project should start but rather mentions that it should start after the elections. We do not have the election date so I
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Week 6 Discussion For the Week 6 Discussion you will create a Gantt chart for one element of the St. Dismas case study project. Using a project management tool like MS Project is typically the easiest and fastest way to do this. However, it is not the only way. You can use MS Office products as well to create the Gantt Chart. Students often ask about the use of project management software applications in this course. In the past we required the use of MS Project for this course but removed
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Gantt charts and PERT charts are both excellent ways to organize and analyze components of a project through a visualization. Both have proven themselves to be successful and essential tools to present information. Although they both have the same purpose, there are many differences separating the two charts. The Gantt chart tends to present information in the form of a bar chart while the PERT presents information as a network model. Presenting information in a bar chart would be a big help to show
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Team Contract - MGMT 485 The contract is an agreement between team members that will provide direction, focus team activities and can help prevent unnecessary conflict. At a minimum, include the information below in your contract. 1-2. Team Name and Logo – does not need to be decided right away. Get a sense of who you are while working together. Both should symbolically represent (in a positive manner) the culture of your team as it emerged this semester. 3. Team Mission - start with:
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and identify the activities that make up the critical path. Responses can be presented in a list of activity names, highlighted in the network diagram, or highlighted in the schedule table. 4. Produce a bar chart (Gantt Chart) based on the ES and EF times from the schedule in item 2. The bar chart can be drawn in a table or using a project management information system like Microsoft Project. You may want to include arrows to show the dependencies of the bars.
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managing a project? A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts D. Precedence charts (E) 2. Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting project status to a customer during an interchange meeting? A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts D. Precedence charts (M) 3. The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts: A. Cannot identify critical
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managing a project? A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts D. Precedence charts (E) 2. Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting project status to a customer during an interchange meeting? A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts D. Precedence charts (M) 3. The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts: A. Cannot identify critical
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1. How long will you take to fill a rush order? Creating a Gantt Chart (used in our group discussion) we can easily see that the following orders (of the same type cookie can be done as follows: 1 Dozen = 26 minutes 2 Dozen = 36 minutes 3 Dozen = 46 minutes 2. How many orders can you fill in a night, assuming you are open four hours each night? In order to find out how many orders we can fill in a specific period of time we need to understand the bottleneck step and calculate the
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