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Below is a Gantt Chart that I created at the beginning of this project. I found this incredibly helpful during the early stages of my project as it allowed me to have a clear-set weekly plan. This meant that I could efficiently organise my research and ensured that I kept on track. However, as I moved out of my research phase into my design phase, I found that the Gantt Chart became gradually less useful to me. I had laid it out in a way that did not allow for much nuance in the process, and as I began to realise that certain aspects of the planned timeline heavily depended on other aspects. This began a web of conditions that I found were increasingly difficult to include in the Gantt Chart.
With this, I concluded that the best way to fully utilise the Gantt Chart would be to have several versions that update as the project progresses and priorities change. For example, “Evaluate tension in strings” has become a series of experiments regarding different physical qualities of the guitar body to assess how different factors affect the volume produced by the body.
In the future I will take this into consideration when forming a Gantt Chart, as well as including it in any risk assessments I perform.
Below is an updated Gantt Chart that better reflects my priorities and plans (plus a demonstration of the progress column!)
