Talk:Gantt chart

message: This article has been vandalized.  Someone please correct.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.119.133.34 (talk) 17:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the stub flag according to stub definition, but this article might be a candidate for a cleanup flag. In particular, some of the external links appear to be beyond the mainstream.   --Garrybooker 17:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I have added the section cleanup tag to this section as it is not easy to view an overview of this section. I suggest a cleanup splits the advantages and limitations into seperate bullet points, with a paragraph going more in depth for each if required. 144.173.6.74 (talk) 14:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Advantages and limitations Section Cleanup

message: The graphic is on the whole good; but isn't it at an impossible stage, by the chart's own terms?  It appears to show that Activity C has a finish-to-start dependency on Activity B; and Activity B is 67% complete, and Activity C 50% complete.  Shouldn't this be impossible, as it shouldn't be possible to start Activity C until Activity B is complete (or that dependency wouldn't exist)?  Or am I misunderstanding (it is a few years since I've done these)?  TSP (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes the example is wrong (dependency between B and C), maybe there should be a better graphic. - 62.127.211.2 (talk) 09:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  You can edit this if you like, I found the original code by accident, its in the "Drawing Gantt Charts in LATEX with TikZ, The pgfgantt Package" by Wolfgang Skala. If you use Debian (likely Ubuntu as well), with installed texlive-pictures-doc, the documentation containing the tex example is located here: /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/pgfgantt/pgfgantt.pdf , or via ctan: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfgantt and its public documentation mirror: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfgantt/pgfgantt.pdf see page 48 -87.162.14.133 (talk) 10:45, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic 

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message: :Whilst I applaud the efforts of all those who contribute to Wikipedia I am also concerned that, in my opinion, this article is misleading and incorrect.
:It is supposed to be about Gantt Charts but has very little about Gantt Charts and is mainly about Bar Charts used in scheduling that some people erroneously refer to as Gantt Charts.  The example contains PERT calculations which have nothing whatsoever to do with Gantt and were not developed until around 40 years after his death.
:May I refer the author and others interested in the subject to two excellent papers from Patrick Weaver; ‘Henry L Gantt, 1861 – 1919. Debunking the myths, a retrospective view of his work’. PM World Journal, Vol. I, Issue V (December 2012) and ‘Where did the Misuse of the names Gantt and PERT Originate?’. PM World Journal, Vol. II, Issue IV (April 2013).
:As Weaver points out:
:"Around 1984/5 Microsoft Project was launched and it used the term ‘Gantt Chart’ for its bar chart view and ‘PERT chart’ for its PDM (or CPM) network diagram. Both terms are ‘wrong’ form a purist perspective, but the increase in the usage of both terms seems to correlate with the rise to dominance of Microsoft Project over many competing PC scheduling tools."
:and furthermore
:"In the meantime, we should all try to use the correct name for charts, diagrams and processes. It may come as a surprise to some, but the name we call things matters because it communicates what we are talking about to our audience. The alternative was effectively described by Robert McCloskey, a US State Department Spokesman several years ago ‘I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant!’ Effective communication needs a mutual understanding of the terms used, and this is helped if the terms are consistently used for their correct purpose."
:Davidbordoli (talk) 09:35, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is This Article Misleading? 

message: The reference given to credit this chart to Adamiecki actually says "This type of chart is very different to the charts developed by Henry Gantt". I think it is fair enough to make a comment that a similar approach to a similar problem had resulted in another type of scheduling chart by Adamiecki, but this should not be in the lead. Chemical Engineer (talk) 19:47, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adamiecki 

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