Network & Gantt chart

Project management (lecture)

Why to translate a network to a Gantt chart?

Gantt chart is more readily to understood by unskilled people. It is especially useful when presenting to the top management. Progress can be easily displayed on it Visualise floats and activity times. Effective explanatory and teaching instrument. Resource allocation can be performed on it.

Two ways af translating networks into bar chart

Calculating activity times and loacting these on the bar chart Drawing activities directily to a time-scale, using the node numbers ensuring correct relationships (time-scaled network)
AoA type AoN type

The time-scaled network (AoA)

Mark activities by nodes (events) Any dummy must be drawn in as a vertical line with its head and tail node-labels Activitiy bars will fall from top-left to bottomright. Dependent activities are always lower in the chart.

The time-scaled network (AoA)

7

2 3
10 15

7 13 10

1
0

0 0

a
15

c
8

4
25

23 23

15 15
20

30

c
3

free float

burst

merge

Dummy activities on a time-scaled AoA network 15 15

a

20

0
0 20

3
b

20 20

25 25

0 1

10

15 2

20
3

25 4

30

dummy
2

 Re-draw the first AoA project as an AoN network: 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 6 6 7 7 0 17

Time-scaled AoN network (example 1)

a 7
13 13

c 10
23 20 0

0 20

START
0

FINISH
0 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 20 20

20

b
0

d
15 15

15

20

On AoN networks start and finish activities should be created if thereis no single starting/ending activities.

Translate standard AoN to a timescaled network

0
START

10

15 17

20

23 25
FINISH

30

a b

c d

Time-scaled AoN network (example 2)

Re-draw the second AoA:
5 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 15 0 20 20 0 25 25 0 0 25

a 15

START
0

c
0 0 0

FINISH
25 25

0
20

20

25

b
0

20

20

Translate it to a time-scaled network.

Solution
0
START

10

15

20

25
FINISH

30

a b c

Time-scaled AoN network (individual exercise)

0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 10

c 8
10 0 0 13 0 13 3 2 3 7 10 10 10 0 13

a
2
2

START
0

FINISH
13 13

0 0 5

5 5 5

d
5

13

b
5

10

Solution
0
START

10
FINISH

15

20

25

30

a
d b

Reading
Lockyer Gordon (2005): Chapter 16

Thank you for the attention