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Gantt Chart & Timeline Center
HOW TO DRAW GANTT CHARTS
What are Gantt Charts?
Gantt charts (also referred to as project timelines) are bar graphs that help plan
and monitor project development or resource allocation on a horizontal time scale.
Typically, Gantt charts indicate the exact duration of specific tasks, but they can also be used to indicate:
- The relationship between tasks
- Planned and actual completion dates
- Cost of each task
- The person or persons responsible for each task
- The milestones in a project's development
Gantt charts are also used by supervisors and team leaders to schedule team members for various time dependent tasks such as visiting clients, making sales calls, being on medical call, being on guard duty, and more.
They can also show the activity load of departments or machines.
Basic Gantt Chart Shapes
The basic shapes required to make a Gantt chart include tables,
task bars, milestone markers, and link lines.
Task Bars
Task bars indicate the duration of tasks.
Milestone Markers
Milestone markers signal a major turning point in the project
such an approval meeting or the release of a product. They can
also mark the beginning and end of tasks.
Link Lines
Links lines show the relationship between two tasks, often indicating
that a task can only begin when another ends.
