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Above are Gantt charts I’ve made to help me plan how and when I’m studying for the AP Euro exam on March 6th. There’s a template on Google Sheets which I tweaked a lot to match my own preferences and needs (e.g. studying on weekends, etc.). I find it better for long term projects or studying that spans weeks rather than a regular planner, because it shows the progression of tasks and you can break tasks up super easily. 

Big “milestones” and phases of work are broken up/color coded while little tasks broken up

Where boxes are filled in are when I plan to complete those tasks

Weeks and days are kept track of at the top

Column to track completion

Several tasks can be completed in one day or one task can be spread out to several days, depending on the length of the task (though if 1 task takes several days, probably break it up more)

Recurring tasks would be just be added to whenever you plan to complete it - making everything very date and time oriented

This is pretty self-explanatory, I just found it a useful way to plan what I’ll be doing each day, because I was super stressed out on how to organize what I was going to do.

Above: Empty timeline with color keys on the left. I created the templates in Inkscape.

I want to know where my team is going to be by week 12.

To do this, I have decided to use a timeline, detailing what tasks need to be completed before we finish. However, I did not want a static timeline, and I did not want to be the one dictating what everyone else should have done by certain periods.

I have been thinking about how to do this for a while (ever since making the team color system), and I have found a way that I think will work well enough for our needs. My idea turned out to be very similar to the Gantt Chart Model, according to the definition provided by projectmanager (2018, 1)  

Gantt Charts are still used by a lot of companies today (including the company I last worked at) even though the idea is from 1910 (1). What I don’t like is that in normal use one person will plan out everything, and then everyone else needs to meet their expectations.

Above: Google docs I created for each team member detailing tasks that they need to get done, higher priority at the top, lower priority at the bottom.

In the paper “Beyond the Gantt chart" by Maylor, H (2001, 2), there was a study conducted around project managment, and the tools used for planning. The conclusion was that there are problems with the Gantt Chart model, and the author gives an example of a tweaked model named BTGC (Beyond the Gantt Chart) which could be used instead to solve those problems.

I am doing something similar to BTGC with my approach, including the team in the managing. I think this will create an environment where we challenge the product, rather then to try and complete tasks by deadlines.

Above: Filled in the timeline with tasks. Colors show who needs to complete what task, placement indicates when a task needs to be completed by.

I do not want to end up completing all the tasks, then find out we should not have done any of those tasks in the first place, because it did not end in the outcome that we wanted.

1. Article retrieved from here.

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Aprende qué es la gráfica de Gantt y cómo utilizarla aquí:  http://tugimnasiacerebral.com/herramientas-de-estudio/que-es-un-diagrama-o-grafica-de-gantt

Henry Laurence Gantt

May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919

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