1. Project Schedule & Gantt Chart Unit 4 – Virtual Project

2. Project Management Project management was first used to manage the US space program. It's practice has now been expanded rapidly through the government, the military and the corporate world.

3. Project Management Project management is no small task. Project management has a definite beginning and end. It is not a continuous process. Project management uses various measurement tools to accomplish and track project tasks. These include Gantt and Pert charts. Projects frequently need resources on an add-on basis as opposed to organizations who have full- time positions.

4. Project Management There are three main points that are most important to a successful project: A Project must meet customer requirements. A Project must be under budget. A Project must be on time.

5. Things that can go wrong with project management Commonly called barriers. Here are some possible barriers: Poor Communication –Many times a project may fail because the project team does not know exactly what to get done or what's already been done. Disagreement –Project must meet all elements in a contract. –Customer and project manager must agree on numerous elements. Failure to comply with standards and regulations. Inclement weather. Union strikes. Personality conflicts. Poor management Poorly defined project goals

6. Gantt Charts Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule.

7. Gantt Charts It addresses the time of individual work elements giving a time line for each activity of a project.

8. Gantt Charts Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project.

9. Gantt Charts In project management, a terminal element is the lowest element (activity or deliverable) in a work breakdown structure(WBS); it is not further subdivided.project managementactivitydeliverablework breakdown structure Terminal elements are the items that are estimated in terms of resource requirements, budget and duration, linked by dependencies and scheduled.estimatedbudgetdurationdependenciesscheduled

10. Gantt Charts Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project. Terminal elements

11. Gantt Charts Some Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities. Gantt charts can be used to show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as shown here.

12. Gantt Charts dependency relationships between activities. percent-complete

13. Project Schedule Before a project schedule can be created, a project manager should typically have a work breakdown structure (WBS), an effort estimate for each task, and a resource list with availability for each resource. work breakdown structure

14. Your Project How do you get started? –Make a list of all tasks related to the project –Use the design process to help define phases Study phase – requirements, research, team set- up Design phase – Brainstorming, Sketching, Development phase – Designing on 3D modeling software.