lThe Gantt chart is named after a well known
industrial engineer, Henry Laurence Gantt
lDuring World War I (1910s), he studied manufacturing processes and labor utilization to improve
the productivity of munitions
factories
lA Gantt chart is an easy-to-use, valuable Project Management tool
l It shows, in
one table:
»Tasks to be completed
»Persons responsible
»Start, duration, and end times/dates
»Activity precedence (what has to be done
first, in what order)