Midweek with Tyler: How I Created a Simple Gantt Chart for Scheduling

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Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Grace talks about his simple and free Gantt chart scheduling process. He explains how he creates the chart in Excel / Google Sheets with color-coded tasks and time estimates to track progress over the life of a project. Tyler also provides tips on using the chart as a flexible tool rather than rigidly adhering to dates.

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0:00.0	the simpler the better for me. Your schedule is always changing from week to week. So this bar chart,
0:06.5	this gant chart is more of a basis and it keeps you on track and it lets you know if you're in the
0:12.8	big picture you're behind or ahead of schedule when you have those critical path items. It's not a
0:18.8	live and die by type document as much as just another tool that helps me communicate with everyone
0:25.8	as far as where we stand. What's going on everyone? Happy Tuesday. Well it is not Tuesday for you
0:36.1	but it's Tuesday for me. I got new headphones. Doug sent me some new headphones. They appear to
0:42.8	be working. Yeah, they're working. I was having issues with my right side earlier. Philly's had a
0:48.7	big game one win against the Diamondbacks last night came out of the gate hitting home runs
0:54.8	and then buckle down when need be Rachel and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary
1:01.1	this past weekend on Sunday. It's crazy to think that we've been married 12 years. She was 26 when
1:07.2	we got married. I was 25. It's I can't believe it's been 12 years. I don't know how that has
1:16.2	happened. It seems like yesterday I don't it doesn't feel like we've been married that long
1:21.5	but we had a pretty low key day. Grapes and dinner. Her parents helped out and watched the kids
1:29.6	but yeah that's about it. It's amazing weather out right now in New Jersey. I love this time of
1:35.6	year except we're getting rain on the weekends right. She has this beautiful weather all week long.
1:40.6	I'll take it then I'd like the the weekends to be nice weather as well and unfortunately
1:47.6	we've had a lot of rain on the weekends. So I'm hoping at least Halloween weekend stays clear.
1:54.8	We have a big Halloween parade. The girl softball team walks in. We have a race for my Enduro
2:01.7	Club. So if there's any local dirt bike riders. Sahara Sands the Sylvie plant of Eaglewood.
2:09.6	We have a race. Kids race Saturday. Kids race or adults race Sunday of Halloween weekend.
2:16.7	You can check it out on the ECEA website but come out and support.
2:22.4	Race your dirt bike. All right so I actually have quite a bit going on today. This should be
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