The column of tasks too often is organized in an elaborately baroque hierarchy, emulating the organization chart. Other problems are all-caps, poorly chosen fonts, mysterious acronyms. The practice of first-initial-caps makes every word read a proper noun. Degrid! See The Visual Display of Quantitative Information on chartjunk, Envisioning Information on layering and separation, and Visual Explanations on the ghost-grid graph paper. No explicitly expressed grid is necessary-or use the ghost-grid graph paper. For these charts the main visual statement is the administrative grid prison, not the actual tasks contained by the grid. Costs might also be included in appropriate cells of the table.Ībout half the charts show their thin data in heavy grid prisons. At a minimum, the charts should be annotated-for example, with to-do lists at particular points on the grid. Most of the Gantt charts are analytically thin, too simple, and lack substantive detail. That is, the chart should show actual dates of achieved goals, evidence which will continuously reinforce a reality principle on the mythical future dates of goal achievement. The chart might be retrospective as well as prospective.
Thus, for large projects, print out the sequence on a big roll of paper and put it up on a wall. Horizontal and vertical scrolling are necessary to see more than about 40 horizontal time lines for a reasonable period of time. Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts), by Edward TufteĬomputer screens are generally too small for an overview of big serious projects.
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