Mastering the Gantt Chart like a pro!
What you'll learn
- Without reading notes, describe a Gantt chart, say / write why and how it was invented, what needs it satisfies
- Know and choose the appropriate open source software: for local use or web-based / individual or in team
- Produce and share a mental map as a brainstorming tool (mindmup)
- List 5 subsequent tasks and sub-tasks by applying "top / down" thinking to stratify tasks into subtasks: in this case a cake recipe
- Use the free open source software "Gantt Project" with a practical case: European project Erasmus KA2
- Regularly update the diagram: check, act, inform
- Communicate the progress of a project to stakeholders in real time
Requirements
- you have to download and install the GanttProject open source software
- you should be curious and open minded :-)
Description
The objective of this training course is to enable beginners and intermediate project developers to create and update a Gantt chart or diagram in real time to manage a complex project and share real-time progress of tasks and subtasks. More and more European Programs ask when a project is filed that a Gantt chart is part of the supporting documents. It will prove the correct planning of the tasks over the duration of the project.
Used terminology:
Gantt chart
Mental map, mind map
Work breakdown structure (WBS), project breakdown structure
Organization, planning
Resources included in the course:
21 videos including presentations, commented slideshows or screencasts
Links to wikipedia, "mindmup", "Freeplane" and "Gantt Project" software
Images of mental maps
Course Structure:
The course is divided into four main parts:
Understand the Gantt chart: history, software
Construct the diagram: the staircase method, the mental map, the logical network
Install and use the "Gantt Project" software
Why take this course?
The Gantt chart, although simple to understand, can be difficult to implement in a complex project if it is not properly and exhaustively "thought" upstream.
In this simple and easy to learn course, you will learn step by step how to "decomplex" and demystify this diagram to transform it into a real project management tool!
Who this course is for:
- This course is intended for project managers wishing to acquire a simple and efficient method (the "staircase method", the mental map) to construct several Gantt diagrams and manage a complex project
- This course is for those who want to learn how to use the open source software "GanttProject"
- This course is not for experienced project managers already familiar with commercial project management software
Instructors
Olivier Rebière est écrivain et formateur en ligne. Il a exercé comme enseignant, manager, entrepreneur et facilitateur expérimenté. Depuis 2013, Olivier a publié un grand nombre de livres numériques traduits dans plusieurs langues et développe actuellement des cours spécialement adaptés aux enseignants, auteurs & apprenants numériques en ligne.
Ses origines:
Après avoir effectué son service militaire comme enseignant en Allemagne, Rebière part pour Bruxelles traiter d'accords contractuels dans l'industrie pharmaceutique. Nommé par le Ministère français des Affaires Étrangères, il sert pendant sept ans en tant que secrétaire général d'institutions culturelles à l'étranger. Avec son épouse, ils décident alors d'investir en Roumanie et fondent une entreprise de team-building qui rencontre le succès puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. La pédagogie d'Olivier Rebière est basée sur l'expérience vécue et l'humanisme.
Domaines de compétence:
management de projet, team building, formation initiale et continue, enseignement, conseil juridique, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, présence web & web design, coaching, techniques d'écriture, auto-apprentissage, médias, voyage, production vidéo & audio, ludification
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Short Bio:
Olivier Rebiere is a writer and online instructor. He worked as a teacher, experienced manager, entrepreneur and facilitator. Since 2013, Olivier has been launching a large number of digital e-books in several languages and is developing courses to help online educators, authors & learners.
Origin Story:
After doing his military service as a teacher in Germany, Rebiere packed up for Brussels to handle contractual agreements and give legal advice in the pharmaceutical industry. Appointed by the french Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served seven years as general secretary in cultural institutions abroad. Rebiere and his wife then decided to invest in Romania and founded a succesful team-building company and the first adventure park ever created in this country - built by their own hands - attracting thousands of people, schools, and companies into practicing sport and bonding activities in nature. Rebiere's pedagogy is based on lived-experience and humanism.
Domains of expertise:
project management, training, team building, teaching, legal advice, budgeting, planning, productivity & strategy, web presence & web design, coaching, writing techniques, self-learning, media, travel, audio & video production, gamification
Short Bio: (french version below / version française infra)
Cristina Rebière is the author of numerous guides and books. She has managed a publishing house, an adventure park and carried out many missions in the European civil service. She is also specialized in continuous training.
Origin Story:
After the Romanian Revolution, Cristina interrupted brilliant studies to enter the University in France where she followed all the courses in law school and obtained a Master in Economic and Social Administration. First in charge of communication in a French Institute in Germany, she became a statistician in Brussels for a help desk of the European Commission. Back in Bucharest she was successively management controller, publishing house director, European expert and then French teacher. In Romania, together with her husband, she founded a team-building company and then the first adventure park ever created in this country - built with their own hands - which attracted thousands of people, schools and companies in the practice of sport and natural activities. Together with her team, she designed and built tree climbing routes for other clients.
At the Academy of Martinique, Cristina is in charge of the coordination of the Academic Unit of the European Funds and Cooperation where she accompanies the project leaders in the editing of files, provides training in project engineering, manages a network more than sixty teachers referring to international openness. She ensures the operational management of several cooperation projects. It ensures the updating of the website of the Academic Delegation to International Relations and Cooperation.
The pedagogy of Cristina Rebière is based on pragmatism and efficiency.
Areas of expertise:
project management, travel, social content marketing, team building, initial and in-service training, expertise in European funds, budgeting, planning, productivity and strategy, coaching, financial engineering, webmaster, statistics, procedures, web integration, graphic design, communication , design and construction of adventure parks
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Courte biographie:
Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.
Ses origines:
Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.
Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.
La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.
Domaines de compétence:
management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure