{"id":244,"date":"2010-03-20T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:12:00","slug":"have-you-heard-of-henry-gantt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Heard of Henry Gantt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gantt_Chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"Gantt_Chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gantt_Chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>Most managers have heard of Gantt charts and associate them with project management where they are widely used\u00a0to help coordinate the separate\u00a0threads of work so that\u00a0the\u00a0project finishes on time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How many\u00a0know\u00a0about the man\u00a0who invented them and why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Henry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919) was an engineer and he invented the chart for a very different purpose &#8211; so that the workers and the managers could\u00a0see at a glance the progress of the work and\u00a0to see what was\u00a0impairing the flow.\u00a0 Decades before the invention of the computer, Henry Gantt\u00a0created a simple and incredibly powerful visual tool for enabling workers and managers to improve processes together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know how simple and powerful the original Gantt chart is because I use it all the time for\u00a0capturing the behaviour of a process in a visual form that stimulates\u00a0constructive conversations\u00a0which result in win-win-win improvements.\u00a0 All you need is some squared paper,\u00a0a pencil, a clock, a Mark I Eyeball or two,\u00a0and a bit of practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most managers have heard of Gantt charts and associate them with project management where they are widely used\u00a0to help coordinate the separate\u00a0threads of work so that\u00a0the\u00a0project finishes on time. How many\u00a0know\u00a0about the man\u00a0who invented them and why? Henry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919) was an engineer and he invented the chart for a very different purpose &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anyone Heard of Henry Gantt?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,324,20,329,23,42,43,45,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diagnosis","category-feedback-loop","category-flow","category-gantt-chart","category-history","category-how","category-why","category-what","category-visualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}