Project Planning

In this blog we will talk about technical, as well as non-technical, issues in engineering work, since this project is part of a course called experts in teamwork. This course will teach us how best to work in teams where both technical and process issues will arise.

Today’s topic is project planning, and it’s an integral part of any ambitious project. In order to succeed we need to know when to perform the essential parts of the project; when to start certain tasks and knowing when to let them go. We have set ourselves a deadline for launching the EoS2 balloon. This will be on 25^th of April this year.

Since this is part of the course Experts in teamwork, we will also need to hand in two reports during the project period and all of the deadlines were first drawn down on a piece of paper with a timeline as shown on figure 1.

Figure 1: Hand drawn projectplan from EiT

This is not a clean and easy way to keep track of the project and we decided to make a Gantt chart of our tasks and deadlines. This was done in excel and is shown in this chart.

Figure 2: Gantt chart generated in excel

Now that we have outlined a project plan, we are ready to embark on the technical issues with this project knowing that we have added structure to the project.