Talk:Gantt chart

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A previous (anonymous) commenter suggested this article needed a better graphic. So I replaced the graphic and cleared this discussion page. If you have any suggestions for improving the new graphic, I'll be watching this Discussion page. --Garrybooker 05:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I removed the stub flag according to stub definition, but this article might be a candidate for a cleanup flag. In particular, some of the external links appear to be beyond the mainstream. --Garrybooker 17:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

There might be a different understanding of terminology, but the definition of TIMENOW(simply defined) is "The date which is the starting point for the remaining work", ie the date for reschdeuling the work not performed.Janus999 10:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No advertising

Wikipedia guidelines on external links, self-promotion and SPAM prohibits advertising. I have already removed advertisement links once with an explanation, but an anonymous editor restored the advertisements without explanation. If you disagree with Wikipedia guidelines or interpret them differently, please discuss it here and sign your name. Garrybooker 05:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

What about such link Gantt chart software ? Egil81 03:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)Egil81

The list might be better merged with this article: List_of_project_management_software. I guess I don't have a strong opinion as long as advertising links aren't mixed with encyclopedic content. Good luck. --Garrybooker 05:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

For the record: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gantt_chart_software /Garrybooker 11:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

You're still misinterpreting the external links guidelines. Georgewilliamherbert 22:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC) This is a Test Message. By N.V. Ramana

Hi, i would like put a external link to the follow direction http://www.webandmacros.com/excel-gantt-macro.htm, in this page you can see a Macro Excel development to the automatic gantt chart, the software is free, you can use this macro to the project management. I wait your answers , thanks Train78

I don't think that would be a good idea. How many webandmacros.com spam links have you added to Wikipedia so far? I count 14 this month. Please stop the self-promotion. (Requestion 04:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC))

Hi Requestion, i´m sorry to put a lot of link of my page, i put in this month 5 links (Gantt, mrp, vba, balanced scorecard and CRM), i´m new user of wikipedia, and i think that my web would be interesting about this subjects, my web don´t sell any product, and if you see my web you can find a lot of information, for example i think that could be interested one example of the MRP and if you go to my web you can find an example of the MRP and you can download a free sofwtare developed by macros excel vba to calculate the MRP, in Gantt Chart you can download in my web a free software developed with excel to calculate an automatic gantt chart to management any type if project, you can see in my web in the section of objectives, my objectives http://www.webandmacros.com/objective.htm, i wait your answer, Thanks a lot Train 78. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Train78 (talk • contribs)

Sorry Train78 but Wikipedia isn't the place for this. (Requestion 02:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC))

Any chance we could add this link? Its a NON-COMMERCIAL, open source, free software to make Gant charts on Windows. http://sourceforge.net/projects/winplanner/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.119.11.101 (talk • contribs)

No thank you. It's just a download page without any other information that expands on what a Gantt chart is. I just don't see how promotional links to specific software help build on the article, be they commercial or non-commercial. Thank you for asking! Kuru ^talk 02:28, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I would like to add the free CPMTutor site (www.cpmtutor.com). The site has useful examples of Gantt-chart and also an extension to the Gantt-chart called the Fenced-Bar Chart used in construction scheduling. --CPMTutor 22:43, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I fell that the strengths and weakness section is rather biased towards the weaknesses - a good modern PM package based on GANTT charts can produce man different reports which address many of these so called weaknesses. And the key strength of the GANTT is showing critical path items - ths is not mentioned SimonMWatts (talk) 09:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Graphic

The graphic is on the whole good; but isn't it at an impossible stage, by the chart's own terms? It appears to show that Activity C has a finish-to-start dependency on Activity B; and Activity B is 67% complete, and Activity C 50% complete. Shouldn't this be impossible, as it shouldn't be possible to start Activity C until Activity B is complete (or that dependency wouldn't exist)? Or am I misunderstanding (it is a few years since I've done these)? TSP (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)