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Using a Gantt chart to plan resources for one project

Using a Gantt chart to plan resources for one project

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Using a Gantt chart to plan resources for one project

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- The next use for Gantt charts, and it's another thing that there's no other way to do, is to work out what you're going to need in terms of resources. This can be for just your one project or maybe for a number of projects that you're planning to do. Taking this one level at a time, if you're just doing one project, you can use your Excel Gantt chart to add up the columns vertically and just check that the totals don't exceed the number of hours or people that you have available. You can see in this example here, I've added up the columns and I've got a rather busy patch around Week 24. And I could ask myself whether I can cope with that. What if I can't? Well, the obvious first option is to slide the floating tasks forward or back, which you can see on my diagram, makes a huge difference. The resource plan, also known as a loading plan, is much better now, much more evenly distributed. If sliding the…

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