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Video Title: Project Management Tools
Description: Project Management Tools
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We are going to discuss a very interesting
topic that is project management tool.

The risk and the uncertainty rises
multifold with respect to the size of the

project, even when the project is developed
according to the set methodologies.

So, when the size of the project will be
too big, whenever we are dealing with

thousands of tasks, whenever we are having
the hundreds of or thousands of resources

and then the project will be too much
complicated.

And there are tools available which aid
for effective project management and the

new and the few of them are described
here.

So, that is why we require some project
management tool.

Manual project management may not work
there because the size of the project is

too big.

So, the tools are NAT chart, part chart
and resource histogram.

So, you can also have some other charts
also, but here we have considered only

this main three
because they are very much familiar and

common as the project management
tool in the industry.

So, first one is the NAT chart.

So, now we are going for the NAT chart.

So, please look at the spelling.

So, NAT chart but the spelling is
G-A-N-T-T.

So, NAT chart.

So, NAT chart was devised by the Henry NAT
in the year 1917.

And it represents a project schedule with
respect to the time periods.

And it is a horizontal bar chart with bars
representing

activities and
time schedule for the project activities.

So, here you just consider here we are
having the week numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, up to 10.

We have written this one.

And here are the different project
activities.

What are they?

That is the planning, design, coding,
testing and delivery.

So, we are expecting that within this
within the three weeks of time,

the planning will be completed.

In the last week, on
the last week, this design

and the planning can
have the overlapping.

That means, after finishing the planning,
the design will not executed.

The design will go on executing on the
third week of this planning.

So, here we are having one overlapping of
this two respective phases.

So, coding will start only after
designing.

So, it will be starting like this.

And the testing will be done on the,
from the second week of the coding and

testing will take, say three weeks of
time.

And delivery obviously, you cannot do the
delivery in parallel to the testing.

So, after completion of the testing,
then this delivery will take place.

And delivery will take another one weeks
of time.

So, in this way, what is this?

This is known as the NAC chart.

So, here we are having that time and here
we are having different activity lists.

And in this horizontal bar diagram,
we are representing this NAC chart.

So, let us go for the next one.

So, here we are having this part chart.

So, there is the program evaluation and
review technique.

So, this part chart can also be known, can
also be called as activity network diagram.

So, this is the program evaluation and
review technique.

Do not consider this very program as the
computer program.

Do not consider that one.

If you go for the very early or old
edition of this project management books,

you can find this one.

This part is having
the full form that is

the project evaluation
and review technique.

But if we consider the latter version.

The latest version of this books on this
project management.

Software project management.

You can find this part having the full
form.

That is the program evaluation.

And review technique.

Now, the question is coming in mind,
then what is the project?

What is the program?

And what is the portfolio?

So, we know that project, we have defined
project multiple times in our tutorial.

That project is nothing but one temporary
endeavour having a start date and end date.

And at the end of the project,
we are going to get unique is private

project, product, service and results...
So, let us suppose

just consider a generic
way, that is a construction company.

And right now, they are executing
five building construction projects

and
three mobile tower efficient projects.

So, how many project that is executing?

Fiveplus trois... what is that value...
eight project that is executing?

Now, these five building construction
project are alike in nature.

So, they will be coming under program
Program number one.

So, these three mobile tower erection
projects, so they are alike.

So, I am bringing them in another program,
let it be program number two.

So, collection of this program number one
and program number two and say another

discrete unique project.

So, might be making the portfolio of the
company.

So, we have defined a project,
we have defined a program.

So, program is collection of alike
projects and then portfolio means

collection of projects and programs will
make the portfolio.

So, here this particular program
evaluation and review technique,

this program is actually symbolizing that
very program.

So, this particular part chart is a tool
that depicts project in network diagram

and also it is known as activity network
diagram.

It is capable of
graphically representing main events

of project
in both parallel and consecutive ways.

And events
which occur one after another show the

dependency of
the later event over the previous one.

So, events are shown as numbered nodes and
they are connected by labelled arrows

depicting the sequence of tasks in the
project.

So, just consider this
activity network diagram,

we have just taken
one diagram as an example.

So, here we are having multiple activities
are there, it might be the activity number.

And here we have written the respective
durations.

So, now if we consider this path.

So, we are having two paths here.

So, that is one path and if we consider
the another path here.

So, now what is the duration of this path?

So, 5 plus 1, 6 plus 3, 9 days.

3 plus 4, 7 plus 3, 10 days.

So, this is the path with the longest
duration can also be treated as a critical

path in this particular activity network
diagram.

Activity network diagram, the critical
path will decide the project duration.

Ok.

This activity network diagram or this path
diagram can be of 2 types.

One is activity on node and one is
activity on arc.

If you write this durations
across the arc, then

it is known This is
known as activity on arc.

So, this particular diagram is actually
AOA activity on arc.

But if you write this durations across
this nodes, then this particular diagram

will be in the version that is AON,
that is the activity on node.

So, now here we are having the resource
histogram.

So, this is a graphical tool that contains
bar or charts representing the number of

resources, usually skilled staff required
over time for a process.

So, this is a project event or a certain
project phase.

And resource histogram is an effective
tool for staff planning and coordination.

So, let us
suppose we are having this designer,

developers,
testers and this total we are having.

So, day one, day two, day three in this
way you have considered only seven days.

So, now in the first, so four designers
will be required and total is four here.

And in the second day, four designers will
be continued.

In the third day, we are having three
designers and one developer, so in total four.

So, here we are having three designers and
two developers, so total is five.

In this way, this table has got populated
with the respective values.

But it is the tabular representation,
not the graphical representation.

So, let us go for the graphical
representation right now.

So, here we are having this resource
histogram.

So, this is the tester, developer and
designer.

So, they are having different colors.

You can find that on day 1, we require
only 4 designers.

On day 2, we require only 4 designers.

On day 3, we require 3 designers and 1
developer.

So, in this way, you are getting this idea
that what is the, what are the resources

we require on the very daily basis in a
graphical representation.

So, this is known as resource histogram.

So, these are the different project
management tools that can be used for the

better understanding,
for the better graphical

understanding of of
the project requirements.

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