The Gantt Chart

The Gantt chart is a graphical visualization tool in a logical sequence in direct connection with start dates and end dates of project tasks. The concept dates back to 1910, the American inventor of the same name. Almost inevitable tool for planning, often associated with a PERT network, it is often configurable based on the concept discussed and chosen scheduling. Inevitably tool studied in the majority of graduate studies, it remains an effective tool for those who need to prioritize their actions. The principle is simple, it is still necessary to apply in order to optimize the result should be a first step to understand the tasks in the table in the order defined by the priority and taking into account the resources still available. In general we follow the following order:

  • Manufacturing planning whose delivery date is the earlier,
  • Treatment of basic necessities (hardware control, obtaining approval etc..
  • Forecast shares of the shortest and with the least length with another task.
  • Forecasting activities from simple to more complicated.
  • Planning of the remaining shares until completion of the project …

The rules are varied depending on the type of actions to be taken:

  • Monitoring study schedule, sports, production
  • Followed the same project for different customers
  • Competitive multi-vendor (methodology, expertise, time, experience …)
  • Multiple projects (construction of a building, presentation in several geographic areas …)
  • Observation of time not to exceed critical
  • Business plan (marketing, finance, management …)
  • Comparison (percentages, cost, components …)
  • Managing multiple projects including sometimes perform identical tasks at the same time …
  • Engineering supervision in parallel with production

And many more 🙂 You can see the sequence of logical tables and graphs developed my version of Excel and compatible PC and MAC on our FB page … Whether in my studio making missions or marketing, finance or management, a large number of different cases were discussed throughout my career and I am happy to share with those who ask me 🙂 I also give training on “data Vizualisation” which charts to what data? What tools for what results … soon … Comments are those of the author, if inadvertently you notice an error or misinterpretation, do not hesitate to let me know. David Mesmacque Recreation: “An intellectual is a man who uses more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. “Dwight Eisenhower Valid for all makers, General Dwight Eisenhower elaborated a” matrix called Eisenhower “he used 6 June 1944 to lead the largest invasion force of all time:” Operation Overlord “parachuting and landing Allied forces in Normandy. This matrix allows me to visualize in order of importance and urgency, depending on how the various actions that I must “place” in my Gantt chart, here summarized: These two criteria easily interpretable, can decide what should be prioritized:

  • 1. Urgent, Important: Activity decisive (immediate action)
  • 2. Non-urgent Important: Objectives large (say Activity anticipation, important but sometimes occupying a considerable time and it is therefore necessary to manage)
  • 3. Urgent, but not important Interruption (which are often the cause of a discrepancy between the estimated and actual)
  • 4. No not urgent & important Distraction (to put on hold or to remove or simply to achieve if time saved on the real, should not interfere with the dead-line initially planned)
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The manager and the loneliness

To answer the interrogation from a “follower” on Twitter which had posted a question on its blog concerning the loneliness of the manager!

I answered this to him:

We are never really alone! Of course the role of a manager often plunges him into loneliness of the reflection and the analysis.
But isn’t it the role of a good manager to know how to surround itself correctly too, well share and well distribute ? At the risk, of course, to feel a small moment of space once its work is achieved and exactly attributed! I get up early in the morning and I take advantage to be alone to plan my coming time before welcoming my professional circle of acquaintances, then once the tasks are exactly distributed, my spirit is again occupied by the new tasks to carry out and so on. I’ve never been at any case since 25 years of management ready to fall over in ” the despair “… Phew very fortunately… Otherwise what would stay of our “role” if we could sink so? I had to well have good about twenty times the opportunity to succumb in front of difficulties (and i’ll still have certainly other opportunities unfortunately) but the strength of the manager is to learn of every ordeal and to become always stronger… Finally this loneliness must be also analyzed as a strength in itself and/or to acquire, to know how to foresee alone and to provide for the team, be autonomous in its actions and notice the results, know how to permanently keep hope, dynamism and perseverance to improve the everyday life… The loneliness thus calls the multitude… I had not shared this answer until then but a friend has just sent me an email which seems convenient to answer with this: the person who livens up the blog on the initiative of my answer never took time to answer my comment!!! Would has he been simply plunged into this famous evoked loneliness?!!
 Anyway, he is only confirming my way to see things, everyone is free in his choices , we cannot speak any more about loneliness of a role or a post if we isolate ourselves after having wanted to share on a such serious subject! I shall end by saying that this character confuses loneliness and isolation which each can feel if he doesn’t make the effort, not only to share but also to give a logical result to each of his actions. To make act of procrastination, negligence or lack of respect to oneself or to the others will on no account allow to take out directly or indirectly of deserved isolation (there are exceptions I grant it!) and by the have a feeling of loneliness became sickly.


Un lieu de recueillement, propice à la réflexion…Savoir se ressourcer…

I stay tuned, I give and I share in everyday life, my friends fight today to make a success each in their way, I accompany them as far as possible in their steps and advise them when it is possible, I pass on my knowledge too which sometimes helps them, I support them when they are in the error and guide them so that they recover faster, in brief I simply avoid to even plunge myself into loneliness by taking them out of it… DM

Le Mas du Clos memory…

“Nothing to me is more than loving friends who share your passion. Friends who come to have fun, to make us happy, share the same passion, without desire, without jealousy. “ Here is the key phrase of an exceptional person “Pierre Bardinon” I had the great fortune to meet! When I asked a friend what car designer celebrity he would meet in his life, he replied without hesitation, “Peter Bardinon” I took it as a challenge … The appointment was made, not easy of course, the son designate and professor of mechanical engineering, he had to find a small click to go the famous barrier secretary! This was done without any problem and then everything was like this fabulous character. I went to prestigious venues Mas du Clos, making a soft purring six cylinder freshly honed … Hosted at English butler, prestige and high class smile and friendship, I was led into a small waiting room, a mechanical room should I say! I do not take long to find me in front of him, already I felt admiration, it must be said that it imposes nicely in the middle of this library masterful telling in a shared passion for a long time, its own history day by day and carefully placed in notebooks giants, at this stage, if you’re not impressed, you just take the door! The presentation, a very strategically selective test posed by the master of the house on my design skills could block me! But it was without counting on my ability to get back on my feet touch bringing my sincere and personal matter … Memories of paternal skills activities with my Art-Concept-Design for 5 years and modest about my personal history own golf car driver and motorcycle. A first exchange was done on different circuits that I attended and he knew by heart on! A second question about my taste in mechanics could ruin everything, without revealing my secret, you just know that those who have chosen to ease the prestigious Prancing Horse will be deceived! My tastes instead (which most intimate experience since my childhood) to my surprise joined his and it is in the utmost secrecy as I entered the cave secret of my new idol! His smile faded and his face wall sincere helped me into a pleasure exponential, I had him simply mention the brand and model he held secret from the public and media! And then there all jostling, the history of early events experienced plunged me not in my past (I’m getting older course but still!) But rather in that of my father who told me all this, among other when I was a kid … All the memories rebounded over his explanations, the fabulous history of the Bugatti 35 LeMans, favorite brands that I will keep secret all these beautiful cars reds aligned with each other, the cult objects of decoration with their stories, showcases prestigious accessories, his friendship with great Enzo Ferrari which I discovered the gifts made over time and so many other details that I may tell soon … Needless to say that also happen at Mas du Clos, is like traveling in a dream, everything is beautiful, red dominates, flowers, trees, mechanics, just the class that has no equal that the quality of the reception! ! The character in front of me is extraordinary, it constantly reminds me a person who has a lot important in my life and always count on, very simple but knowing tell with such ease, I was simply captivated during the hours privileged shared with him. It was an honor to meet him, it’s just unique … We could not separate us without share another passion with him, and indeed those who know me well have guessed, Pierre Bardinon also love the world of two wheels! An invitation is then to have the pleasure of seeing me run with my monster on its own circuit, it is a privilege more than I will certainly never forget! And then there were striking anecdotes on its own acquisitions models exceptions where again the memories I still stand hair on the forearms … I hope to return soon, it nod addressed my Friends also passionate about automobile and motorcycle, both my son in memory of their grandfather, who certainly would have been delighted to accompany me on these magical places, my two brothers their mechanics who had the chance to follow in the footsteps of their father and my friend Bernard who mainly helped me refine the restoration of the beautiful places of the moment … I hope you liked reading this, if you want more details, I will gladly the confidence to give the opportunity for a little rendezvous in self-love, for example, to quickly … David

The legendary and magnificent Mas du Clos circuit!

Time and interpretation…

I do not necessarily more time available than others, but for a friend I would not hesitate for a moment!

Here’s the best way for me to address this issue in response to this friend:

The relationship between age and time was always the same is already a fundamental notion to acquire. She joined me for your demonstration of course.

Everyone is free to define as he wants if indeed it complies with the basic rules of math: 100 years each year represents almost exactly 1% but it certainly manages to define this report younger, we advantage of the time that passes its fair value. 😉

I think Buddhist, I live Taoist : every new day is a complete day more than you take me and more if time stops for a day, at any stage of this percentage, I have taken full advantage c that is to say, not 100% more capital based on 100 years of my life but simply.

We are a speck in the universe, what do we do? Any trace of our passage remain stealthy? What will I even traces rather follow? It is in this limited notion of time that we let slip without taking care to enjoy!

Why then settle on a basic mathematical concept without bothering to involve other more elaborate thoughts? This makes it easy to support those fighting the disease with more or less success, it can assist the dying in their limits, it lets you enjoy each share as a sacred and not a small part of life calculated.


Time passes!!!

I confirm this observation sometimes see as the years spin weeks, it dawned on me 3 times since my birth, I did this last time for 1 minute each time I turn instead to a meditation oriented life, nature, elements and meaning (6!), time can only be different from those experienced by one and the one that do just think every day if not every moment!

My gain? No, if it is the satisfaction of my days living fully enjoying every moment without wondering when it will all end, we are at the base of that speck in the universe and whatever the length time if we become aware of just? The work of each individual over time is to do on himself and he makes sharing with others around him, his family, his friends, whom he wishes to support, help, support as I said earlier …

This leads to another observation more important to me, than fight selfishness, absence, forgetfulness, ignorance, disrespect etc.

Gain? Live more intensely as time goes by sharing makes the exponential inevitably feel the passage periods shared, exchange on which others enjoy walks on the memory that gives rise to emotions, on the recognition that gives satisfaction to others at fair value, the respect you back like a boomerang with a sense of well-be definitively established.

love it above all I find oceanfront … DM

The magic of life is felt at every moment for those who want to take the trouble to apply this theory quite personal but fortunately often shared …

  • Children bring us great pleasure to have done a balancing act in this world, they often convince us of the importance of this involvement by giving us besides, for their efforts to meet innocently, by their acts natural amaze us by their attendance to keep this beautiful family element remains a force deformable as an engraving in stone …

  • Friends give us a lot too, I mean those who over time you speak the same way, those who have always maintained the same behavior, those who do not distort the life or maintain interest by their actions in the waiting for a forced return. I am very lucky today to know that, time passes but it certainly allows me to continue to enjoy their presence and richness of our discussions.

 

  • Nature allows me every day to confound me with the great outdoors, meet animals, birds, insects, bring a wealth of my eyes inescapable hit the water and fish imagine (my chinese sign n is it not “Tou” hare water 兔 tù?!). I enjoy the touch of grass, the passage of fresh air in my lungs and welcoming walk on land, I admire every flower, every tree, every rock … I like above all to find myself face to ocean admire this division between sky and water and choose to move slowly to mingle with the item!

 

  • I do not fear the fire, I saw in the water, I take the ground with one hand and I’m floating in the air, all to reach the theory of Empedocles who teamed up with the idea to Thales (the water), Heraclitus (fire) and Anaximenes (air) to compose the universe by completing his personal touch (earth) … and the circle is complete …
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  • Finally, each direction has its place in my daily life since the start of the martial arts at the age of 11 years, especially since the discovery of Qi-Gong and I associated very easily 6th sense unknown to the Western world but guide me everyday now (this is also the famous 6th sense developed long ago but recently mastered that allowed me to pass the bar 7mn30 in static apnea but also through 300km bike this winter – 6 ° C! Conduct a session of Qi-Gong in ice water or even counter this by burning when I left neglect the back of my left hand this winter make clean contact with the glass brulante the fireplace insert.
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    To conclude:

    I fully exploits every sense, every dive where I transported to another world for a time much longer this time where minutes can seem so hours away from you, where the joint is no longer palpable, there not wish to also acknowledge and here I though I share this activity whenever it is possible for me to do, I live selfishly most of the time alone, proud and staff wish! This takes several minutes, sometimes very long, I enjoy every second that takes a different meaning each time, the ideas come, projects form, life feels just. David Mesmacque (c) 2012 response made ​​to a friend who wrote to me in these terms:

    Children, we were bored often, time seemed stuck, not moving, we were eager to be adults now … years pass like weeks … time flies like water through your fingers .. . I tried to explain: “When you were five, one year accounted for one fifth of your short life … now it is a ninety-fifth of your experience. it is you who change over time , it does not change. “in fact, when it was one year, add a new year is already double the time lived 100 years it is no longer that 1%” … you can imagine that the perception of running time is not linear throughout his life, not for biochemical reasons but for mathematical reasons … What do you think?