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Henry Laurence Gantt (/ ɡ æ n t /; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management.
A Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications. Henry Gantt, inventor of the Gantt chart. A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. [1] It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt around the years 1910–1915.
Henry Gantt (1831 – October 4, 1884) was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. Henry Gantt, son of Dr. John W. Gantt and Sarah Blakey Gantt (née Perkins), was born in Virginia in 1831. He attended the Virginia Military Institute from 1848 to 1851; graduating as 23rd out of 29. Farming and managing one of his family ...
Gantt may refer to: Henry Gantt, American mechanical engineer and management consultant, known for his work in the development of scientific management and creator of the Gantt chart; Gantt chart, a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule and estimation; Gantt (surname) Gantt, Alabama, United States; Gantt, South Carolina, United ...
Two forefathers of project management are Henry Gantt, called the father of planning and control techniques, [10] who is famous for his use of the Gantt chart as a project management tool (alternatively Harmonogram first proposed by Karol Adamiecki); [11] and Henri Fayol for his creation of the five management functions that form the foundation ...
The Henry Laurence Gantt Medal was established in 1929 by the American Management Association and the Management section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers [1] for "distinguished achievement in management and service to the community" [2] in honour of Henry Laurence Gantt. [3] By the year 1984 in total 45 medals had been awarded. [4]
Henry Wallace Clark (July 27, 1880 – April 7, 1948) was an American consulting engineer, known for popularizing the work of Henry Gantt with his 1922 work "The Gantt chart; a working tool of management". [1] [2] In 1934 he was awarded the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal by the ASME. [3]
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