From the course: Project Management Simplified

Add names and dates to your Gantt

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Add names and dates to your Gantt

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- [Instructor] So, I've already set up my critical path and my floating tasks. Now I want to add a few more things just to make my Gantt chart a bit nicer. The first thing is I'm going to insert a column here. And this is going to be the name of the person who's doing the task. So I'm going to give Dianne the job of choosing the country. Cody's going to get the permit. And Dianne can do the buying of the site as well. I'll do the modifying of the building. And so on. Then the other thing I want to insert is real dates. So let's suppose that today is the 12th of February. I'll choose that cause it's my birthday. So, what we'll do therefor is, we just insert a column above that, and then we can put the date in here. So, let's say week one is starting on the 12th of Feb, 2020, let's say. Now, that doesn't fit on, but that's okay, because I'm going to select the whole row, and I'm going to right-click and go Format Cells. And I'm going to go Alignment Vertical. Then a week after the 12th of February it's going to be the 17th of February. And then by selecting those two and dragging the little dot I can put the dates all the way across like that. So I can now see that my project's going to finish week commencing the 30th of August. And now I've got real dates. I've got a real time scale. And everyone can look at their diaries. Dianne can look and see that she's choosing the country during February, and she's also helping buy the site in May and June. So everybody can commit and promise that they're going to do their parts of the plan.

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