7.4. The Gantt diagram

One of the things project managers want the most is overview. And since the human mind is much more capable of understanding picture then learning dry stuff like Morse code we should try to make it for the project manager as easy and simple as possible. One of the tools TUTOS delivers is the Gantt diagram. This is a details graphic representation of tasks over time. You could also say that it is somewhat the same as the Task Overview Screen but than with more detail.

Displaying a Gantt diagram is very easy. In the project details screen as well as in the task overview screen is a menu option called 'Gantt diagram' that will display one. For our small demo project a Gantt diagram would look like the one in the next picture.

Unfortunately as you can see, the screen is just to small to fit this graph on. So just for the sake of this demo, we will shorten the project and add a couple of subprojects to clarify the picture a little bit. The result is shown in the next picture. (off course is all resemblance to actual people, products and events purely coincidental).