Mastering Project Management with Gantt Charts

Your construction project is guaranteed to fail without this one specific diagram.

It is all about managing chaos through sequential and parallel activities. You literally cannot

paint a wall that has not been built yet, which is a sequential task.

But you can run wires while someone else lays pipes, which is parallel fast-tracking.

This is where the Gantt chart saves your life. Henry Gantt popularized this over a hundred

years ago to manage WWI logistics and the Hoover Dam. It turns a mess of dates into a

visual map so you do not lose millions. If you ignore the critical path, you are not building

anything.