Sticking to my gantt chart

I produced a gantt chart during the planning stage of  my project. The gantt chart had all of the tasks that I needed to complete in order to design my website. The gantt chart had a few specific columns of information about the task, these were:

• The task title
• Start date
• End Date
• Predecessors

The gantt chart was a specific table that outlined the whole design process of the project. The issue with the gantt chart is that I did not find it that easy to follow because of my own performance and other issues that slowed the design process down. In terms of my performance, I did not keep up with the gantt chart as planned. At times, this was down to me not working quickly enough and other tasks were slowing me down. This meant that some of the other tasks suffered and I became behind schedule. Another issue that made me fall behind on my gantt chart was the bad weather we had. This meant that we did not have to attend college for two days and therefore we could not use the college computers. This meant that some of the work had to be postponed. Again, this meant that I was behind in terms of following my gantt chart and it was important that I caught up with work that I was behind on. If I were to complete a similar task I would allocate myself more time to complete all the tasks that were relevant to the project. Although I feel my time planning was realistic I need to allocate myself more time to deal with un-expected weather conditions to prevent this happening again.

Was this a long or short term issue?

This was a long term issue because the gantt chart was a consistent feature throughout the whole website project. It was important that I stuck to the gantt chart as best I could but there were obviously issues that prevented me from doing this.