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- [Narrator] So if you're managing projects,

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chances are you've run into a Gantt chart.

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But even if not, let's talk about them

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because they're very useful for project management.

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So a Gantt Chart at its core is just a bar chart

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and that bar chart represents a project

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schedule from start to finish.

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Now you can actually encode various other things into it

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such as tasks and milestones

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using icons, using color.

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A lot of different ways to do it, especially in Excel.

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Now, the original Gantt Chart was designed

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by Henry Gantt in 1910-ish,

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and today it's used a lot across project management.

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So chances are, if you haven't run into it yet,

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you will run into it soon.

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Let's talk about the elements of a Gantt Chart real quick.

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So first part is that bar chart.

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I said a horizontal bar.

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That's going to be the duration of each task.

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Then there's the timescale.

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So from left to right, you see a time series,

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and that gives us the total time it

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takes to complete the project.

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And finally, there are task listings,

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and that's going to be on the vertical axis.

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So you can think about projects being listed,

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and then a bar chart that actually helps us identify when

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they start and finish,

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as well as other colors

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and various encodings to allow us to understand how

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that project is doing.

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Excel is a great place to build a Gantt Chart,

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and I'm going to show you how in the next video.