[Year 12 SofDev] Project Plan in a Spreadsheet

[Mark]

Hi Simon,

If the aim of using a spreadsheet for the Gantt were to make the process
simpler, you'll be disappointed.
GanttProject or similar free software is so much easier and more flexible
and quick. And it's very quick to learn.

Using Excel for Gantt produces worse results (no dependency lines, for
example) with much greater effort in a longer time... and the quality,
effort and time only get worse when the plan needs to be tweaked as it
progresses.

Regards
Mark

On 7 March 2016 at 10:11, Tyler, Simon J <tyler.simon.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> At the SofDev SAT professional learning event in Coburg, quite a few
> people said that they'd get their students to create their project plan /
> Gantt chart in Excel or Sheets. I've had a play with this but am not
> satisfied with the results.
>
> Does anyone have any resources / examples on creating a plan in a
> spreadsheet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
> Simon Tyler
> Classroom Teacher
> Footscray City College
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