Gantt and Pert Charts

Gantt Charts

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• - bar charts
  - time shedules
  - start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project
  - breakdown structure of project
  - show dependency (i.e., precedence network) relationships between activities
  - show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as shown here

Pert Charts

- stands for Program Evaluation Review Technique
- project management tool used to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project
- methodology developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program
- presents a graphic illustration of a project
- presented as a network diagram
- consists of numbered nodes (either circles or rectangles) representing events, or milestones in the project linked by labelled vectors (directional lines) representing tasks in the project
- direction of arrows on lines shows sequence of tasks
- In the diagram, for example, the tasks between nodes 1, 2, 4, 8, and 10 must be completed in sequence
- these are called dependent or serial tasks
- the tasks between nodes 1 and 2, and nodes 1 and 3 are not dependent on the completion of one to start the other and can be undertaken simultaneously
- these tasks are called parallel or concurrent tasks
- tasks that must be completed in sequence but that don't require resources or completion time are considered to have event dependency
- these are represented by dotted lines with arrows and are called dummy activities
- for example, the dashed arrow linking nodes 6 and 9 indicates that the system files must be converted before the user test can take place, but that the resources and time required to prepare for the user test (writing the user manual and user training) are on another path
- numbers on the opposite sides of the vectors indicate the time allotted for the task
(http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/PERT-chart)

What I shall have to do...

To answer my other blog, I shall be creating a website, with all the frames, the static things like pictures, banners, websites they use regularly, everything that a normal blog and pages need. I shall include 2 oe 3 blogs that I have copied and pasted from the real Yummy Mummy website, to show how it would be like.

A question I need to answer urgently...

Yummy Mummy is aleady a website that is up and running. It is run by the 8 most influential women in Hong Kong, who each write blogs and find dates and then give the information to a professional website maker, who adds photos and videos relating to what is being said.
??? Do I write the blogs, or copy and paste what is being written on the real website ???
??? Should I just make a template for the website and let my client add the information she wants on the blogs once I'm done ???
??? Can I really do this ???

My first meeting with my Client

What is Yummy Mummy?
A website for urban moms in and around Hong Kong that offers the 'insider's guide to motherhood'. Updated daily, Yummy Mummy Asia gives the scoop on what’s fun, fashionable and cool for families in Hong Kong and beyond, and is run by a group of 8 of the city’s most in-the-know moms.
Yummy Mummy Asia provides readers with:
-A daily blog posting on a topic/event/etc that relates to moms, kids and families in and around Hong Kong. This should be prominent and featured.
-Other important 'fixed' features include: A directory (ie: Mom's Little Black Book); an event calendar/listing of the best events and activities that week in HK for kids/families; a showcased menu of the week; Q&A of the week with an expert in a variety of categories (health, fashion, nutrition, education, etc etc).
Navigation requirements:
-The blogs are all categorized across a variety of topics (health, style, home, events + activities, travel, etc), as well as by age (maternity, babies, kids, tweens, Yummy Mummies). There must be a way to search, pull up or show the past content of the blog based on these (ie: be able to pull up the past posts that have to do with Travel, for instance, or maternity).
-Posts are also 'tagged' to help users find content they are interested in. These tags are more precise than the category tags (ex: sports, beauty, fashion, etc). So likewise, there should be way to view all blog posts under a certain 'tag.'
-A search box, box for subscribe to our newsletter, plus our social media sites like facebook and twitter should be included.
Look & Feel
-YMA.com's audience is sophisticated, educated, well-traveled, and affluent. The look of the site should reflect this. We do not want the site to look like it's just for moms of little kids - we want it to look simple and polished. We don't want lots of gimmicks, but rather want a clean home page that is pleasant, easy to navigate.
-Our principle color is a shade of lilac/light purple. Pops of other secondary colors are welcome, but again we want the overall look and feel to be simple, rather than aggressive.