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The document discusses various methods for visualizing project progress, including Gantt charts, slip charts, ball charts, and timelines. Gantt charts are traditional tools for tracking scheduled activities, while slip charts highlight deviations from the plan. Ball charts indicate whether targets have been met, and timelines show changes in target dates throughout the project.

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SPM (visualizing progress)

The document discusses various methods for visualizing project progress, including Gantt charts, slip charts, ball charts, and timelines. Gantt charts are traditional tools for tracking scheduled activities, while slip charts highlight deviations from the plan. Ball charts indicate whether targets have been met, and timelines show changes in target dates throughout the project.

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3 Visualizing Progress

Economic Assessment:
After collecting data the project manager willrepresent the collected data
using static picture. We look at some methods of presenting a picture of
the project and its future.
Some of these methods are:
1. Gantt charts
2. Slip charts
3. Ball charts
4. timeline

Gantt charts:
Simplest ,oldest techniques for tracking the project progress
Indicates scheduled activity dates and durations
Reported progress is recorded on the chart (by shading activity bars)
" Note that the Gantt chart is named after Henry Gantt (1861-1919) and so should
not be written in capitals! You could ask students what they think GANTT
stands for before you tell them this to impress this on them. I really find Gantt
written as GANTT very, very annoying and threaten students with instant
failure of the module if they do this!

Planned time (week numbers)


12 13 | 1415 16 17 19 20
Gavln
Code and test module A loE/P/11
Purdy
Code and test module B loEPI12

Justin
Code and test module C loE/P/13

Spencer
Code and test module D loE/P/14
Amanda
Specity overall system
Check specfications
Check module Cspec loE/P/6al

Revlew meetings

" The format of the Gantt chart here differs from the format used in Microsoft
project as the activities for each team member are grouped together. You could
input the details so that they came out in this format, but it would not occur
automatically.
Slip charts:
Provide more striking visual indication of those activities that are not
progressing to schedule
The more the slip line bends ,greater variation from the plan.
A slip chart is a version of the Gantt chart where a line is drawn from top to
bottom. To the left of the line are all the completed activities and to the right
those activities (or parts of activities) that have not been completed.
The more jagged the line, the more it means that that there are some activities
that are lagging to various degrees and some that are ahead of themselves. A
very jagged line means that there is scope for re-planning to move resources
from thOse activities that are ahead to those that are behind.

Planned time (week numbers)


12 13 14 1516 7 18 19 20
Gavin
Code and test module A loEP/I1

Purdy
Code and test module B loE/P/12

Justin
Code and test module C loE/P/13

Spencer
Code and test module D lo£/P/14|

Amanda
Specity overall system
Check spedfications
Chedk module C spec loE/P/6a

Revlew meetlngs

Ball charts:

" To show whether targets have been met or not


" Circles indicate start date & competition date
" Whenever revisions are made the revised date is put in to the circle
" Circles, which represent the start or finish of activities, start with the initial
target dates. If these are modified then the second dates are changed. When the
event actually takes place, the colour of the circle is changed to green if it is on
target and to red if it has missed the target.
The idea is that this chart is put on a wall in a prominent position as a constant
reminder to the project team of the current situation hence it is often referred
to as 'balls on the wall'

Ball charts
Code and test module A
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10/10/05 231008)

Code and test module B


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171008 311005

Code and test module C


17/10/05
17/10/05 27/10/05
27/10/05

Green: On time
Red: Missed the target

The timeline:

> This records the way that targets have changed throughout the project.
> Planned time is plotted on the horizontal axis, and actual time on the vertical
axis. The bendy lines going from top to bottom represent the scheduled
completion date for each activity e.g.
> 'analyse existing system at start this was due finish on the Monday of week 3
and it did finish then
> 'obtain user requirements' was originally planned to finish on the Thursday of
week 5, but at the end of the first week it was rescheduled to finish on the
Tuesday of week 6.
Week number
Planned time
time
Actual 2 3 adstngystem
4 6 8 10 11

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