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Leveraging the Gantt of Gantts chart

Leveraging the Gantt of Gantts chart

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Leveraging the Gantt of Gantts chart

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- So we've built up a program view, which I'm calling my Gantt of Gantts. Rather than trying to show all of the Gantt charts on one massive diagram like this, we're just looking at the resources required on one simplified summary diagram. I think if you only have two or three projects, you actually can have them all on the same Gantt chart, one below the other. But once you get more than five or six, then you need to have a simplified view of each project. And it's the resources that you're mainly concerned with. You don't need to know the detail of each project or the components of the program, as they're sometimes called. You can always bring up the detailed Gantt chart for any one of them if you need to see it in more detail. But I want to just make three important points about the reality of constructing this program resource plan or Gantt of Gantts. First, although I like the shapes, they are really visual. You can…

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