Gantt Charts Articles

Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

If you’d like to show the relative week number from the project start next to milestone tasks in the WBS of the Gantt chart.  You need to insert a calculated text field with to handle this.
Right click on the column header

Select “Insert Column.”
Select an unused custom text field name like “Text1″. 
Change the title to something […]

Mac Gantt Chart Tool Review - Merlin 2.5

I am a Project Manager at KPMG and I create a lot of Gantt charts to convey project schedules. It’s important to me to have a solid tool for this process.
As you all know I abhor MS Project, because of its lack of intuitiveness as well as stovepiping a certain way of doing work.  I […]

.Net Gantt Chart Component

ASE looks like they have a pretty nice component for embedding in .Net applications.   It appears that it will work in ASP.Net as well, which is pretty hot.
Check out their chart gallery of how it works when using it for Gantt Charts.
The Gannt Chart versions don’t look as hot as some of the others in their […]

Gantt Charts and Pert Charts for Non-PMs

How do you handle working with a company full of people who don’t understand what it takes to truly manage a project?  When they want to manage a project, but couldn’t tell you when you’d use a PERT chart versus a Gantt Chart? When they don’t want to resource load and distribute shared assets across […]

Henry Laurence Gantt

Henry L. Gantt Achievements

Henry Gantt

Henry Laurence Gantt enjoyed working as a mechanical engineer and management consultant.  Henry Gantt is known for innovating his self-named easily-viewed scheduling and monitoring diagram. Gantt Charts are drawn to reveal planned and actual project progress.  A commonly accepted project management instrument these days, it was an innovation of world-wide significance in 1920, founded on […]