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I am looking to make and maintain a Gantt chart, but I am unable to find any suitable solutions. It should be a cloud (meaning online) solution, so there can be several collaborators. It should also have normal features like linking tasks.

I have already tested a Gantt solution integrated in Google Spreadsheets, but it was too immature to be useful.

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clockingit.com has support for GANTT charts, though I'm not sure how they are with multiple users and collaboration. I haven't used it extensively. – Anna Lear♦ Nov 12 '11 at 20:00
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There is no way to make a good GANTT chart. The mere fact of the existence of one will basically guarantee your project will be over-time and over-budget. – aclear16 Apr 9 at 21:23
+1 to @aclear16 for comedy. But also for basically being right... – Willl Apr 12 at 15:01

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Ummm ... Did you try out Google Docs' Gantt chart making feature? I recently used it for a project.

This tutorial on Making a Gantt Chart with Google Docs might help you.

Although there are better, quick and easy cloud products for making Gantt charts available on the Internet, I feel this feature of Google docs is much convenient to use as most of us are well-versed with Google Docs, as also for my project, the entire documentation was stored in Google Docs, which made things easy to manage.

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The Google Spreadsheet plugin I had tried was a different one. Smartsheet seems to have all the features I need. Thanks! – David Nov 13 '11 at 9:54
Actually, real-time collaboration is not supported by Smartsheet, and even worse editing conflicts are not handled (changes are just overwritten), which means that this tool would be dangerous to use for more than a couple of persons. – David Nov 13 '11 at 10:03
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A Gantt Chart is an outcome of "Develop Schedule" process, which gets a list of Activities as an income. Thus, I would suggest you to try one of those tools that allow you to maintain a list of Activities online (with multiple collaborators) and then automatically generate a Gantt Chart from them. Trac is one of the examples.

But if you still need a pure Gantt Chart drawing tool - consider Gantter.

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Having recently compared many online Gantt solutions, I can also recommend Gantter.com as being one of the most polished and visually similar to MS Project.

It still has bugs and the interface is cramped in a single browser window, but enables printing and optional tight integration with Google Drive.

Possible security concerns if you install the optional app to Google Docs, which allows it to access any files in your Google Drive.

The background to my testing is that I was using JIRA OnDemand and could not integrate any Gantt generators with it.

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FYI, may want to keep an eye on this company, "WorkInspire": app.workinspire.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com I'm here in Manila and saw a friend who is developing this with a new startup company. Noticed very nice looking Gantts. – Leon Stafford Dec 25 '12 at 8:35

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