Unit 4 Shared Activity: Project Planning And Project Completion

Unit 4 Shared Activity: Project Planning and Project CompletionNameProject ManagementTutor’s NameDateIdentify and briefly describe the project planning tools you selected for your scenario, explaining why you would use each one.The Gantt chart was chosen as one of the project planning tools to help in automation and progress tracking. A Gantt chart is a visual representation outlining all the tasks in a project, their order and their time scale. It provides an instant view of the entire project, its associated tasks and the timeline by which they must be completed to complete the entire project on time (Project Management Institute, 1987). The Gantt chart was used to detail the tasks involved in the project, assign responsibility for each task and to work out the minimum time it will take to deliver the project. The second project management tool used is the critical path analysis. CPM is the sequence of tasks that must individually be completed on time if the whole project is to be completed on time therefore the critical path of the project was made of the necessary tasks and activities that take the longest