I do not have any industry experience with Gantt Charts but for my senior design project at Rutgers, we were required to make one for each semester. For the first semester, we had just learned about it a few weeks after we started our project. Before having the chart, it was more difficult to decide what needed to be done for the project and what the next task was. After we created the chart, we have a better timeline of when everything was supposed to be done and how long it should take. The first semester was more trial and error because we did not account for exam days when we would not be able to work on the project or vacation days. We also fell behind on the Gantt chart because we didn’t account for materials that would take a few weeks to come in. We made due with the time we had and made sure we were doing something productive for the product we were designing to make up for the time that we had lost when waiting for the material to come in. The next semester, we created a better Gantt chart where we stayed more on task and had completed the design to the best of our ability. Gantt Charts save more time by having general deadlines and schedules and it helps keeps everyone on task. There will always be issues that can arise but the chart helps to find other tasks that need to be done or ways to fix the issue.