Integrated Project Management

Introduction

Every basic project needs a project plan. Starting a basic project before the planning is completed does not produce the desired results. Each project needs a written description of what is to be done, task by task, when each task must be started, and how long each task is expected to take. Projects progress in a task-by-task order. A few tasks can be started simultaneously at the launch of a project, however most are dependent on predecessor tasks. These tasks are started when a prior task or several immediately prior tasks have produced the task outputs needed as their starting point.

The project Gantt chart was designed to display, on graph paper, the flow of tasks, predecessors and successors, that describe the execution of the ...