Episode Details

The Gantt chart is named after Henry Gantt, but a Polish engineer named Karol Adamiecki built essentially the same tool in 1896 — and published it in Polish and Russian, so almost nobody saw it. This episode traces how the chart got its name, how it spread from American industrial management to Soviet five-year planning, and why it survived a century of management fads. Then it turns to the critical path method, developed in the late 1950s by Morgan Walker at DuPont and James Kelley at Remington Rand using a UNIVAC 1 to schedule chemical plant shutdowns. The conversation digs into float, drag, and why the critical path moves as work happens — plus how Microsoft Project, Asana, Monday.com, and Jira each handle (or fail to handle) dependency analysis today. Episode #590602 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/590602