2.3 Project Management in the Early 20th Century
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The breakthrough of project management was in 1917 when Henry Gantt marked the beginning of the modern project management era by developing the Gantt Diagram. |
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Gantt diagram is a basic project management scheduling tool which specifies the start and finish times of each activity involved in the project in a horizontal time scale. |
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Example: Figure 2.1 shows a Gantt Chart for a project concerned with the development of an archiving and document management software system. |
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The diagram illustrates that the project duration is 18 months. | |
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The duration, start and end time of all phases (and tasks within each phase) are determined on the Gantt chart. |
