From the course: Project Management Simplified

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Add time and money to your Gantt

Add time and money to your Gantt

From the course: Project Management Simplified

Add time and money to your Gantt

- [Instructor] So here we are. I've already set up the critical path and the floating tasks, and the names, and the dates. Now, the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change these ones into more useful numbers, so I can put real hours. So let's suppose it's going to take Diane six hours a week to choose the country. She's going to spend a day a week googling and researching. And let's suppose that Cody is going to have to have a four-hour meeting with the permit issuing office, and then he's going to have to wait. Now, I don't like the way it doesn't color in if there's a zero. So I've got a little trick, I like to put an O instead, (chuckles) so I'm going to put that. And then Cody has a little busy patch just at the end there where he has another meeting, another, let's say, another four-hour meeting. So you would then go through, and you would put the hours on all of the bars. So I've got all my numbers now along the bars for the hours it's going to take to do each job. And…

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