This module has introduced a lot of new challenges to me that I have not encountered before. However, I was happy to see one section of it which I was familiar with and this was Gantt charts. I have previously come across Gantt charts when doing my EPQ at sixth Form and discovered them to be such a helpful way to organise my time. So, in my strange student way I was very excited to do this section as I understood how valuable it will be to module 3 and getting the practical investigation underway and finished on time. I think Gantt charts can appear quite daunting, but they are actually super simple.
It is all about making sure you get the right information down, so before I do anything I sit down with a good old-fashioned paper and pen and write out what will need doing for the project. I the sort these under main headings and decide how long they will take to complete, giving a start date and end date. Once I have done this I enter all the information into a table on excel (this is the media I find easiest to use): Start date, end date, heading, and length of time it will take eg.in days. To make it look like a gannt chart you then insert a stacked bar chart on the same excel page and select the relevant data and insert it into the bar chart data. You then adjust the axis labels, format the bar colours and then make it look neat.
It sounds a little confusing, but there are so many resources online showing you different ways to create them on different medias, or even sites where you enter your data and they create it automatically for you. So, if in doubt just research it!
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