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Gantt Chart Diagram

Gantt Chart is a popular type of bar charts and widely used projects planning method. It helps to illustrate the plan for some project, the progress of tasks, the resources planning, the schedule of works and working time. The Gantt Chart contains a set of intervals (bars) located on the time axis and reflects the use of resources by objects. Each bar represents a separate task in the project, its length is a duration of the work. The vertical axis of the graph represents the list of tasks. Besides, the chart can contain additional data, such as the percents of complete, the total tasks, the tasks dependencies, the key points (milestones), etc. The use of Gantt Chart greatly simplifies the project management and enables to visualize in visual and compressed view the most important information of the project, what resources are used for execution the certain tasks and which must to be the speed of their execution. ConceptDraw Office suite applications help to cope perfectly the project management tasks, to construct easily the basic structure of your project and create a Gantt Chart Diagram. PM Easy solution allows you to plan and execute the projects using the mind mapping technique, to implement planning using mind mapping, and track tasks using ConceptDraw Project.

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During the planning, discussing and execution of a project you may need to prepare a presentation using project views such as the Gantt Chart, Multiproject Dashboard or Resource Usage View. It’s easy do with ConceptDraw PROJECT!
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How to Convert a Mind Map into MS Project XML

The easiest way to start this project is to conduct a brainstorm session that identifies necessary tasks, then prepare a project schedule in the form of a Gantt chart and assign resources to tasks. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP, you can initiate a project using mind map to represent all critical and important tasks. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports a mind map export to MS Project; it also allows import a project file from MS Project giving team members who use OS X or Windows a working visual map of a planned project.

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WBS Diagram

To simplify the managing of a complex project, it is advisable to divide it into the components in a hierarchical tree structure, called by Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). WBS diagram clearly divides all the works and tasks that must be done to achieve the objectives of the project, into the smaller operations and actions. Such division of the project accelerates the allocation of resources and establishes the areas of responsibility for each team member. WBS diagram is one of the main planning tools frequently used by project managers, it allows you to clearly define the entire scope of work on the project, to describe in details the content of these works and to arrange them in a form of hierarchical structure. The better you detailing the WBS, the more accurate will be all actions. The optimal size of elements is from the few days to several months. ConceptDraw Office suite applications and ConceptDraw Solution Park contain a lot of tools actively applied in project management, in their quantity is included the possibility of easy creation professional-looking Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) diagrams.

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Business Process

A business process is an activity or set of related and structured activities or tasks, which are used to accomplish a specific organizational goals, are directed on the production some specific product or service for particular customers. To measure the success of the business process within an organization is used the tracking of benchmarks, for improvement the business processes is applied the approach named as business process management. For visual depiction and modeling the business processes are successfully used the Mind Maps and Flowcharts. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is ideal software for business process mapping, business process diagramming and business modeling. It offers all needed tools for fast and easy designing the Business Process Mind Maps and Business Process Diagrams (Process Charts, Business Process Modeling Diagrams, Cross-Functional Flowcharts, Workflows, Timeline Diagrams, Calendars, Gantt Charts, IDEF0 and IDEF2, Audit and Opportunity Flowcharts), for visual documenting and communication the business process information, creation vivid presentations.

What is Gantt Chart (historical reference)

Historical reference about the Gantt chart.