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Alignment of summary and chidl tasks in the PERT chart #1412

Open ersilva4 opened 7 years ago

ersilva4 commented 7 years ago

Hello Team

When I generate the pert diagram, final result differs a lot from a traditional software used in the project management. I expected to see the activities aligned with summary task. pert_expected

but ganttproject generates the following pert_generated

test_overview

Attached is the files used. gantt_files.zip

OS.: Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty

dbarashev commented 7 years ago

I understand the need and possible habits of using other tools, but let me notice that PERT chart is a network diagram and represents the sequence of events in the chronology. In particular, if one node (start) goes to the right of other node (Milestones) one may think that the former is the successor of the latter which is not true in the reality.

ersilva4 commented 7 years ago

Hi,

This is a pretty sw for project management,but this visualization hinders the understanding of a project execution, because all activities will be crowded in few horizontal lines.

This sw provides a better visualization and this style can't be changed.

image

ewa commented 7 years ago

Is there a consensus on what's the "correct" way to represent summary tasks in a PERT chart? Part of me wants to say that they should be omitted entirely, or reduced to "label" around a cluster of the the actual child tasks.