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Planning is important in work that we want to do, without planning all the work will be mess and not organize. To make a planning we need a Gantt chart, What is Gantt chart ? to those who already know what it is good but for those who does not know it here I make a simple explanation about it and how use it.

What is GANTT CHART ?

Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that is used in a project management. It is one of most popular and useful ways of showing the activities display against times. In a Gantt chart we can see each of the activity that is represent by a bar. Other than that the position and length of the bar reflect the start date, duration, and the end date of the activities.

Picture 1 : Example of the Gantt chart

A Gantt chart provide a graphical illustration of a schedule that help to plan, coordinate, and track specific task in a project. Gantt chart can be a very simple version and also can be a complicated version depend on what project you want to make and the thing that you want to cover. Usually Gantt chart can be create using project management application such as Microsoft project or Excel.

Picture 2 : Example of the  Gantt chart

From the Gantt chart we can know everything such as :

• what the various activities are
• When each activities begin and end 
• How long each activities is schedule to last
• Where activities overlap with other activities and by how much
• The start and end date of the whole project  

REFERENCE 

• https://technology.amis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/image6.png
• http://www.learningspy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/planning.jpg
• http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/Gantt-chart
• http://www.gantt.com/
• http://www.ganttchart.in/pictures/gantt-chart-example3.jpg