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Fig. 10.4 Collective task
Fig. 10.5 Completion status
The degree of completion is visible as a small black bar within the task bar to
document project progression. Once it has been decided to maintain this data item it
obviously means extra work to be done on a regular basis.
In the presented rather simplified Gantt depictions here quite a number of refined
possibilities have been left out:
Linking of tasks
Documentation of task owners and
Capacity reports.
Altogether the Gantt diagram is quite possibly the most often applied chart in
project management.
10.3.3 Mile Stone Plan
The mile stone plan shown in Fig.
10.6
is a kind of Gantt diagram subset.
Again all tasks can be seen and the mile stones are depicted as black rhom-
buses. Such a mile stone may stand at the end of a task. The task is closed once
the mile stone has been reached. But a mile stone can also stand alone
representing a once and for all task of very short duration—for example for a
single decision to be made. Mile stones are always linked to a specific date and
