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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.
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.
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.
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.
Try out Wrike – it has a good Gantt chart with ability to drag-and-drop tasks, create dependencies and milestones. The service is collaborative, so it enables you to share and edit tasks with other users. Besides, it has a number of useful features for task management, email and Google Drive integration, so you can manage all data in one place.
I just spent a week comparing quite a few free online Gantt chart solutions.
I have not found anything that is visually similar to MS Project that is free.
I settled on free excel template that I converted to G doc (the "simple" one from this page https://exceltemplate.net/gantt-chart)
It's online on our google drive to allow for collaboration. Does the job but does not have all the bells and whistles online software would provide so if anyone did find a better ONLINE and FREE software, please chip in.
