T.10 Gantt chart questions for IB Business Management

Inês and Rui Calçada are opening Café Calçada, a speciality coffee shop in Lisbon, Portugal. Rui has listed the tasks involved in Table 1.

Table 1: Tasks for opening Café Calçada

Using Table 1, construct a Gantt chart for the opening of Café Calçada.

Kassa Pilv OÜ, a software company in Tallinn, Estonia, sells cloud-based till (point-of-sale) software to small shops. Its project manager, Kristiina Lepp, has planned a major update of the software, shown in Figure 1.

Salt River Brewing Co. is converting a warehouse in Cape Town, South Africa, into a taproom where it will brew and serve its own beer. The tasks are listed in Table 1, and Figure 1 shows a Gantt chart that is only partly complete.

Table 1: Tasks for the Salt River Taproom

Bomnal Skincare Co. (BS)

BS is a cosmetics company in Seoul, South Korea. It plans to launch a reef-safe sunscreen in time for summer. The formula must pass final testing and receive regulatory approval before production can start, while the packaging and an influencer campaign are prepared alongside. The brand manager, Seo Ha-eun, has listed the tasks in Table 1.

Table 1: Tasks for the sunscreen launch

Ubud Vows is a wedding-planning business in Bali, Indonesia, run by Made Suardana. It organizes about 60 weddings a year for overseas couples, coordinating venues, florists, caterers, musicians, photographers and transport. Couples often change their plans at short notice. Made is thinking of using a Gantt chart for every wedding.

Explain one advantage and one disadvantage for Ubud Vows of using Gantt charts to plan its weddings.

Clínica Dental Arcos in Guadalajara, Mexico, must close while it is renovated, losing about MXN 40 000 of revenue a day. The tasks are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Renovation tasks