Gantt Charts: A summary

Data Required

  • List of activities

  • Activity duration estimates

  • Activity progress to date

Output Information

  • Activity plan and status

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

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