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

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Tip 5: List of tasks vs. a Gantt chart

Tip 5: List of tasks vs. a Gantt chart

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

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Tip 5: List of tasks vs. a Gantt chart

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- Now over the years, when I've been a project manager, but more when I've been doing training, I've seen a lot of project plans, and I think this is one of the commonest mistakes that get made, and it's also my total pet hate. And it's the fact that people quite often have a list of tasks, rather than a proper Gantt chart. Now, it doesn't sound that bad, does it? Just have a list of tasks, and I think, you know, it's probably the obvious thing you would do. I've got to do this complicated project, so I'll just do a list of everything I've got to do, and I'll maybe put dates, so I'll be doing that one in March, that one in April, probably get to that May, June time. That's what people do. And I think it's a really bad idea. And I'll explain why. So, the first thing I do when somebody says, "Here's my project plan.", and they show me a list of tasks, I always say to them, oh that's good, where did you get the dates from? And they nearly always say, "Well, I "made them up, really.", and…

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