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• Henry Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant, who developed the Gantt chart in the 1910s.

• Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. It illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project.

• Goal or objective consists of a projected state of affairs which a person or a system plans or intends to achieve or bring about — a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines

• Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable and time targeted objectives
• GPM Certified Green Project Manager, conferred by GPM Global

• Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) is a network analysis technique that allows probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimated.