Assignment: Scheduling Tool

Assignment: Scheduling Tool

Assignment: Scheduling Tool

Week 7 Gantt Chart The Gantt chart is a scheduling tool that uses bars to represent project activities and to show when the project, and each activity within the project, starts and ends against a horizontal time scale. Having a Gantt chart ensures that your project participants have the necessary time allocated on their calendars and are available to perform their activities. Instructions Based on your informatics problem statement identified in week 1: Create a Gantt chart for your project plan using a template created in Excel. Make sure to include specific and appropriate performance outcome measures in your Gantt chart. Reference Chapter 6 in Martinelli and the required resources located in this week for guidance. Separately summarize how the selected performance measure will assure proper measurement, data collection, monitoring, and analyzing in your project. Create a PowerPoint presentation using four slides. Slide 1: Introduction slide of the healthcare informatics project Slide 2: Copy your Gantt chart (created in Excel) to a PowerPoint slide Slide 3: Bulleted summary supporting your selection of Performance Measurements included in the Gantt chart Slide 4: References You will submit three separate documents this week: Executive Dashboard, Work Breakdown Schedule, and PowerPoint Summary of WBS, including Gantt Chart

A tool that provides  component names, definitions, structural relationships and formats that support the application of a scheduling method is referred to as scheduling tool. Distinguishing the project schedule presentation from the  and calculations that produce the project schedule by referring to the scheduling tool populated with project data as the .

Project management provides the scheduling tool and alternative possibilities for managing the . Scheduling tool is one of the factors that influence the sequence activities process. It is part of the enterprise environmental factors to be used in developing the . Automated scheduling tools contain the schedule model and expedite the scheduling process by generating start and finish dates based on the inputs of activities, network diagrams, resources and activity durations using .