Gantt Chart | Tools and Techniques

Introduction:-

A Gantt chart is a visual tool that helps project managers plan and track a project’s progress. Henry Gantt designed and popularized the Gantt chart around 1910–1915. Gantt charts are often displayed as a bar chart, where each task is represented by a bar along a timeline.

Seven important elements of Gantt Chart are as follows:-

1. Tasks, their duration, status, and priority.
2. Start and end dates.
3. Progress.
4. Timeline with the time scale.
5. Milestones.
6. Dependencies between tasks.
7. Deadlines.
8. Critical path

Some ways Gantt charts are used:

1. Managing milestones and deadlines
2. Breaking projects into smaller tasks
3. Visualizing task dependencies
4. Monitoring project progress