What is a Gantt Chart?

Gantt chart is also called bar chart or bar chart. It uses a bar chart to show the progress of projects, progress, and other internal relationships of time-related system progress over time. Named after the presenter, Mr. Henry Laurence Gantt.

The Gantt chart graphically shows the order and duration of specific items through an activity list and time scale. A line drawing,

The Gantt chart is characterized by highlighting the most important factor in production management-time. Its role is shown in three aspects:

1. Correspondence between planned output and planned time.

2. The relationship between the actual daily output and the planned output.

3. Contrast relationship between actual cumulative output in a certain period of time and planned cumulative output in the same period ^[1]

1. Project management: It is widely used in modern project management. This is probably the easiest to understand, easiest to use, and most comprehensive. It allows you to predict time, cost, quantity and quality results and return to the beginning. It can also help you consider human, resources, dates, repetitive elements and key parts of the project. You can also integrate 10 Gantt charts in all aspects into a general map. In the way of Gantt chart, you can directly see the progress of the task, the utilization of resources and so on.

2. Other fields: Today, Gantt chart is not only applied to the field of production management. With the development of production management and the expansion of project management, it has been applied to various fields, such as: construction, IT software, automotive, etc.

1.Microsoft OfficeProject

The general-purpose project management software produced by Microsoft enjoys an international reputation, condensing many mature modern theories and methods of project management, which can help project managers achieve time, resources, and cost planning and control.

GanttProject

AVA's open source project management software supports available resources, milestones, tasks / subtasks, and task start dates, durations, dependencies, progress, notes, etc., and can output PNG / JPG image formats, HTML web pages, or PDF file format.

3.VARCHART XGantt

NET Gantt chart control, which supports editing, printing and graphical representation of data in the form of Gantt charts and bar charts, can achieve similar interface effects as Project or P / 6, and supports integration into project management, production scheduling, etc. Application. Gantt chart control VARCHART XGantt allows you to edit, print and graphically represent your data in the form of bar charts, bar charts, it can achieve the Gantt chart development you want in minutes, and only need Through the configuration of the property page in the simple design mode, you can quickly adapt the VARCHART XGantt control to the needs of your customers without writing a single line of code. Its powerful features are comparable to Microsoft's project series.

4.jQuery.Gantt

A Gantt chart chart plug-in based on jQuery can implement Gantt chart. Features include: reading JSON data, paginating results, displaying different colors for each task, using a short description as a reminder, labeling holidays, etc.

5.Excel

Excel is an important part of Microsoft office suite software. It can handle various data processing, statistical analysis and auxiliary decision-making operations. It is widely used in many fields such as management, statistics, finance, and finance. A large number of formula functions in Excel can be applied and selected. With Microsoft Excel, you can perform calculations, analyze information, and manage data information lists in spreadsheets or web pages. You can implement many convenient functions, bringing convenience to users. It is more and more widely used in the field of office automation applications ^[3] .