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Managing multiple projects: The Gantt of Gantts chart

Managing multiple projects: The Gantt of Gantts chart

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Managing multiple projects: The Gantt of Gantts chart

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- We'll come to this in more detail later, but I think it's time to show you the Gantt of Gantts. You can see from this diagram that it has two main uses. First we can check on progress. A is finished, B is behind schedule, C is ahead of schedule, and D hasn't been started when it should have. So that's great. But perhaps more importantly is the second use, which is that we can use it for thinking about the order of our projects. We can look at E, F, and G, and we can think, can we do all three at once? Do we have enough resources to be able to do them? Do we have enough people, space, machinery, management, time and money to be able to do all of them at once? And if we don't, then the program manager can decide or more likely confer with the stakeholders and ask them which one should we leave until next year? Or perhaps shall we get extra resources and pay more in order to be able to do them all this year? Or should we…

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