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Gantt chart in Excel, part 4

Gantt chart in Excel, part 4

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Gantt chart in Excel, part 4

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- Now I'm actually going to just change the order of these tasks. I'm going to move advertise down. And then I'm going to move all of these back up. And you'll see why in a minute. There's no rule about what order you have to have the tasks in on a Gantt chart. So this vertical axis is just completely unstructured apart from the fact you must have the critical part at the top. But ideally, you'd make it look neat. And so I think it'll work out slightly neater if I put in the manager and staff next. So looking at my Post-it Note, so I can see the manager and staff come after we find a site. So at the end of find a site, I just have a line coming down, a border like that. So it has to be after this point and anywhere up to the end when we open for business. So I'm going to get the manager as soon as I can. Four weeks is a bit quick for recruiting, but I'll go with the numbers provided. And I'm going to get the staff right at the end 'cause I don't want them sitting around costing me…

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