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> That led us to create enormous Gantt charts (printed dot matrix) that we’d tack onto a huge wall, and use them to track plans and work completed. It never fai
by divbzero 4y ago
> That led us to create enormous Gantt charts (printed dot matrix) that we’d tack onto a huge wall, and use them to track plans and work completed. It never failed that during the first week of coding we’d discover something that we didn’t think of in the design phase, and we’d have to replan the entire project and print all new Gantt charts. We did this over and over every project.
I’ve only ever worked with “modern” agile approaches to software development. Gantt charts feel like a mismatch with the speed of software development, but sometimes I wonder if there certain software projects where Gantt would work better than agile.
- misterbwong 4y agoFor software, the usefulness in Gantt charting seems to lie in the visualizing and mapping project dependencies and rough ordering of milestones. Where most get it wrong is in believing that the date at the end of the chart is anything more than a very rough estimate