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How to create a Gantt chart

How to create a Gantt chart

- Now we come to step six, which is to create your Gantt chart. It's basically just a bar chart showing all the tasks in your plan drawn along a timeline. Gantt charts are great because everything's drawn out to scale. Even people who know nothing about project management can immediately understand what they're looking at with the tasks down the side and the dates across the top. Creating your Gantt chart. And by the way, it's called that because it was invented by Henry Gantt about a hundred years ago. Creating it is easy if you have the post-it notes to work from. If you don't bother with the post-its and you jump straight to the Gantt, then it will be really hard, almost impossible. It'll take you ages and you'll very likely get some of it wrong. So always do the post-Its before you make your Gantt chart. I'm going to show you how you can easily convert the post-it plan across into the Gantt chart using Excel. I like Excel because everyone's got it and we all know how to use it…

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