JMU
Gantt Charts
An Introduction


Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department
bernstdh@jmu.edu


Background
An Example

The Input Data

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Visualization
An Example (cont.)

Adding Task 1

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An Example (cont.)

Adding Task 2

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An Example (cont.)

Adding Tasks 3 and 4

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An Example (cont.)

Adding Task 5

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An Example (cont.)

All Tasks

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Finding the Critical Tasks
An Example (cont.)

Critical Tasks

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An Example (cont.)

Slack

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Automated Tools

One Particular Tool

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Automated Tools (cont.)