In the spirit of Thanksgiving here in the US, we’ll continue our “Gantts, Lies, and Videotape” series with a discussion of stuffing — or dressing, if you are not a big fan of Salmonella.
Stuffing may have a home at the Thanksgiving table, but it has no place on your Gantt charts. In fact, stuffing your Gantt chart full of a disproportionate number of tasks is another way that a lot of people inadvertently lie in their project reports. Here is an example of a Gantt chart that has been “stuffed”:
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