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Tip 7: Stories vs. Gantt

Tip 7: Stories vs. Gantt

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 7: Stories vs. Gantt

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- Now we come to a very commonly made mistake. And once you've seen this, you'll be thinking, ah, of course. And this is to let people tell you stories rather than showing you a colored in Gantt chart. And I've found that quite often, people, they do a Gantt chart at the beginning because they need to show it to the customer to sell the job, or to get permission to do a project, and then once they start the project, they don't color the Gantt chart in. And that just seems mad. You've gone through all the effort of producing the Gantt chart. Why would you not use it for the best bit, which is coloring in to monitor your progress? Are we keeping up with the now line? So, what happens if you don't do that, or if you just don't even have a Gantt chart at all, is that people will tell you stories. So, you'll say, you know, how is the construction job getting on? And they'll say, oh it's going really well, yes, we've got the foundations in. And sometimes it will be tails of woe, and they'll…

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