Data Required 
                      
                        - List of activities
 
                           
                         
                        - Activity duration estimates
 
                           
                         
                        - Activity progress to date
 
                           
                         
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                    Output Information 
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                    Advantages 
                      
                        
                            - Simple, easy to understand, easy
                                  to change, schedule and progress can be shown together
 
                                   
                             
                            - Shows
                                  gross progress of lack of it
 
                                   
                             
                            - Shows status of project
                                  elements
 
                                   
                             
                            - Identifies elements that are ahead or behind
                                  schedule
 
                         
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                    Disadvantages 
                      
                        
                            - Doesn’t show interrelationship
                                  of activities – little
                                  predictive value
 
                                   
                             
                            - No opportunity for sensitivity analysis
 
                               
                             
                            - Doesn’t
                                  provide a means for assessing true project status (an
                                  element being behind schedule doesn’t
                                    mean the project is behind schedule)
 
                                     
                             
                            - Gross progress
                                  is not enough
 
                         
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