Integrated Project Management

The Large Basic Project Gantt Chart

The toy truck example used earlier is very simple. It represents the basic Gantt chart characteristics. The Gantt chart shown in Figures. 6-7A, 6-7B and 6-7C is taken from the real world. Although it does not take us through the whole “Build a New Style Disk Cleaning Machine” project, it does take us four and one half months into the project and takes us to a major checkpoint—“Lay out 3D design.” There are 15 task leaders on the project team at this point. The names of the workers who will execute the project are identified by a code. There is one work team, “Mfg shop,” that is represented on the project team by the manufacturing supervisor of the tool room—the facility providing the manufactured parts for ...