Planning

What is a Gantt Chart

A Gantt Chart is a type of horizontal bar chart which can be used to illustrate schedules. A Gantt chart shows the start and finish dates of the tasks that make up a project. If you’re managing a project, before …

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Planning and Risk

How to embed risk thinking into your planning to maximize the chances of project success.

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Project Dependencies

A dependency occurs when one deliverable is needed in order to make progress on another deliverable. Dependencies can occur at many different levels – one task may be waiting on another, one project may be waiting on another, and even …

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Rolling Wave Planning

Rolling Wave Planning is an approach to project and program planning. I’ve heard it said that an Economist is someone who can tell you exactly why something has happened, but who can’t predict what will happen next. That’s probably …

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