Sunday, February 4, 2018

Creating and maintaining projects in school : GanttProject


Some schools are leaving the lecture lesson type and moving towards the hands on experience. Not only students need to work directly on a project but they need to work with others, collaborate and change throughout the experiment. It’s the learning process where students learn to edit all the way through, as they interact with other students and teachers.

The world they’re going to work in one day, is based on projects. Hence it makes sense if they start preparing for the future. Today we’re presenting another tool in the hands of educators in order to help their students write their projects: GanttProject. Some functions done by GanttProject are:

  • Create tasks and milestones. Aside from the start date and duration, every task may have priority, cost New in 2.7, color and fill pattern, text notes and user-defined custom fields.
  • Organize tasks in a work breakdown structure. Hierarchical tree where progress, dates or costs of lower level tasks is summarized on the higher levels. Summary tasks can be collapsed to hide tasks which are not important at the moment.
  • Draw dependency constraints between tasks, like "start X when Y finishes" and GanttProject will take care of enforcing these constraints. You can add a lag or use other types of constraints.
  • Create baselines to be able to compare current project state with previous plans..
  • PERT chart for read-only view can be generated from the Gantt chart.
 



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