Overview
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Project management trainer and consultant Chris Croft provides tips and tricks for creating a Gantt chart to manage your projects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- How to manage projects with Gantt charts
- Putting in the critical path
- Drawing double-critcal paths, overlap, lead, and lag
- Estimating times and adding contingency
- Deciding the level of granularity
- Putting in and positioning the floating tasks
- Assessing the software options
- Using Excel for Gantt charts: My top 10 tips
- Using templates
- How to leverage a Gantt chart
- Using a Gantt chart to plan resources for one project
- A Gantt of Gantts
- Resource planning
- Monitoring progress with a Gantt chart
- Assessing risk with a Gantt chart
- Speeding up your project with Gantt chart
- Forecasting spend with a Gantt chart
- Forecasting challenge
- Forecasting solution
- Five common mistakes to look out for
- Succeeding with Gantt charts
