It contains the task outline on the left and the Gantt chart on the right. Gantt View A mode of the project document window in which you create, edit, and examine tasks.
Each task is represented by a bar, corresponding to a row in the task outline, and may be connected to other tasks by lines representing dependencies the horizontal size and position of the bar indicate the expected duration and schedule for the task. Gantt Chart A Gantt chart is a chronological representation of the project, shown in OmniPlan on the right side of the Gantt View. Equipment can have Efficiency, Cost per Use, and Cost per Hour values. For equipment resources, units represent the percentage of the equipment’s time that is available for the project. It can also be useful to consider things like meeting rooms to be equipment, if you need to balance their use between different tasks. It represents some kind of reusable asset, such as computer hardware. Equipment Equipment is a type of resource. Elapsed time is used when creating tasks with an elapsed duration, and can be used when setting lead/lag time between tasks. Elapsed time is “actual” in the sense that unlike regular duration or effort, the value refers to a specific amount of calendar time in the world and is not calculated based on the project’s work hours. Elapsed Time A measurement of actual time required by a task or as a buffer between tasks. For example, a task which has a duration of 4 hours and has 2 resources assigned to it (both at 100% units and efficiency) has an effort requirement of 8 hours. Effort Effort, in contrast to duration, is how much work time a task takes to complete, considering all of the resources assigned to it. Efficiency can affect duration and effort: 100% efficiency means the resource can contribute 1 hour of effort for every hour of work 50% efficiency means it can contribute 1 hour of effort for every 2 hours of work and so on. Efficiency The measure of how much work a resource can get done in a certain amount of time. For example, a task which takes 4 hours of effort and is assigned to 2 resources (both at 100% units and efficiency) has a duration of 2 hours. Duration Duration, in contrast to effort, is how long a task takes to complete in actual working time. For example, the task Buy Paint must finish before the task Paint Fence can begin. Dependency The relationship by which one task must start or finish before another task can start or finish. Critical paths can be charted to individual milestones as well as to the entire project duration view a milestone’s critical path by selecting its checkbox in the Milestones inspector. You can check the critical path with View > Gantt > Critical Paths or the Critical Path toolbar button.
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Critical path The critical path is the series of dependent tasks which, if any of their durations change, will cause the whole project’s duration to change.
A resource can have either or both of a cost per use and a cost per hour. The total cost of a task is the sum of the task cost and the costs of the resources assigned to it. Cost Both tasks and resources can have monetary costs. This is terminology common to outlining software. Child A member of a task or resource group is considered the group’s child. You can compare a baseline schedule and the actual schedule in the Gantt chart using the View > Baseline Comparison submenu. After you set a baseline, further editing changes the actual schedule only. Before you set a baseline for a project, the baseline and actual schedules are the same. Baseline schedule A baseline schedule, in contrast to the actual schedule, is the way a project is planned to proceed from a given point in time. Manage resource assignments on a per-task basis using the Assigned Resources inspector. Assignment amounts are expressed as the percentage of the resource’s work time being spent on the task. Assignment Assigning a resource to a task means that the resource is expected to be working on that task throughout its duration. Before you set a baseline for a project, its baseline and actual schedules are the same. Actual schedule The actual schedule for a project, in contrast to a baseline schedule, is the way the project turns out in real life. The following is a list of terms specific to OmniPlan or project management that you’ll encounter throughout this manual, defined and listed in alphabetical order for easy reference. Balancing Resource Loads Across Projects.Using Simulations to Estimate Milestone Completion (Pro).
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