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DQ1:

The advantages to using a network-based approach to project management compared to a Gantt chart approach greatly depends on the type of project that is being constructed.  A network-based approach is a diagram that will display the tasks that need to be completed for a projects success, but more impactful than just displaying those tasks is the order that they must be completed in.  Network-based approaches define the dependency that one task has upon another task to be completed, and is a proper tool to utilize in order to manage the overall amount of time of project should take, as well as the allotted time for each of the individual steps of the project.

Critical to any project management team is that the owners of the project have a solid grasp of each process step (Bozarth & Handfield, 2013), and in some cases this may be best suited by the Gantt chart application.  With the Gantt chart, a project manager can list out each process step that needs to be performed, but unlike the network-based process they can see overlapping tasks that can occur simultaneously.

There are situations in which I use both of these methods for the same project at my workplace.  We utilize a Gantt chart to oversee an entire project.  There are tasks that can occur by multiple departments at the same time that are not dependent upon each other.  These would be situations like while the box artwork is being developed, the testing of a box on the packaging equipment can occur.  This way when the artwork is ready, so too is the box approval for functionality, and then the artwork can be applied to that specific die line.  However, a network-based procedure is used once the final specification is completed.  At each step of the way, different departments must enter information into the system before the next department can see data and perform their tasks.  After six departments are completed in succession, the item is finally active and all the departments have visibility to the finished item and all of its components needed to manufacture.

 

 

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