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Syllabus

Project planning tools; Storyboards, Site Maps, Gantt charts and Project Management Software 12 ATAR


 

Background

  • For any project it is important to do planning so that we have an idea of everything needed to complete the project.
  • They have written notes on the designs to provide extra details about the design.
  • They are made by the designer and used to talk with the client (client brief) about what the design might look like.
  • The following tools help with project planning.

Storyboards

Sitemaps

  • A sitemap is a one page picture showing the whole structure of a website
  • It shows all the webpages on a website

 sitemap

Flowchart

  • A flowchart is a series of boxes joined by lines that show flow of information
  • the boxes show the things/nouns and the lines show the flow of data between them.

 

Gantt Charts

  • A Gant chart shows tasks, time taken for each task, it also shows if a task needs to follow another task. eg ID 4 and 5 above follows 3
  • Make your own Gantt chart, for free, by registering at tomsplanner.com
  • Download free Gantt software from http://www.ganttproject.biz/ 

Project Management Software


 

For you to do

 1. What is an advantage of using a Gantt Chart for a project?

2. Why do you think there is so much project management software available?

3. Start using Gantt charts as planning tools for some of your tasks.

EXTENSION ACTIVITY

4. Why does the word Gantt always have a capital letter? hint

 
 
 
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