Open Source Gantt Chart Software

Steve Wilheir — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:02:17 +0000

If you’re low on funds, but still want to manage projects like the pros do, you may want to check out this open source Gantt Charting tool – GanttProject. This project management and scheduling software boasts the ability to document and depict your usual Gantt-type task hierarchy and dependencies. Not only does it bust a move on your Gantt Charts , it also creates mean PERT charts — all of which can be exported to HTML reports, PDF reports and Microsoft Project. You can also (if you’ve given up on MS project) import your Microsoft Project .mpp file into GanttProject. Take a look.

It’s amazing what the concept of Open Source has done to the software industry. Realize, my friends, that “Open Source” is another way of saying “no support” — if you feel that your team needs project management software that works perfectly all of the time and that you should be able to call the vendor and complain to them every time you get stuck or it does something stupid.

Microsoft Project is not for you.
Open Source is not for you.

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Gantt Chart Bar Height

Steve Wilheir — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:36:29 +0000

If you need to make the bars taller than 24 pixels high in Microsoft project, you don’t really have much of a choice, it would seem.

You are presented with a drop-down list, and the tallest selection available is 24. So, how do you make one bigger so that you can make it stand out from the rest or fill the page for a presentation?

Well, depending upon what you’re trying to do there are a few workarounds:

You could make another bar on the next row, and butt the two of them together through the Format -> Bar Styles dialog.

Then again, if you’re just trying to make the whole thing look bigger when you print it out, the Page Setup functionality will let you scale the whole thing up to fill the page.

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