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

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Demo: Gantt chart in Excel

Demo: Gantt chart in Excel

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

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Demo: Gantt chart in Excel

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- [Chris] First, put your tasks down the side, and then put the dates across the top, and then you put in the critical path. Now, how do you know which tasks are on the critical path? Well, it comes from the Post-it note flowchart that you made earlier, it should look like this. Never jump straight to a Gantt chart without doing the Post-its first, because your Gantt chart will be wrong. It will be based on the wrong critical path. Then you can put in the floaters. When you do this, always put in the vertical lines. They show how much movement the floating tasks have. The lines are based on what does the floating task have to come after, and what must it be done before? Position the floaters as you want them, which will depend on the nature of the tasks, and then put in the names of who's doing each job as an extra column. Then put in any holidays like Christmas, where the project will be stopped, and this is done just by inserting a blank column. Then you can put in the actual hours…

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