Questions tagged [gantt]
GANTT is a form of project schedule. Use this tag for general GANTT questions. If you are using a specific software package, use that tag instead.
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Are Gantt diagrams compatible with Agile methods?
If they are, is it simple to use them with theses methods? Have you some use cases to present?
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Being pressured into doing a Gantt chart
Currently in a proxy product owner/Scrum master role, I do my planning in the following way:
Weekly
Retrospectives at the end of the week, sprint review on Mondays (with the stakeholder) followed by ...
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A good cloud solution for making Gantt charts [closed]
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 ...
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Showing Microsoft Project files to people without Project
The project managers at my company were asked to use Microsoft Project 2013 to track our projects, but many of the business stakeholders do not have Project installed. It looks like I cannot just ...
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What are the benefits of using Gantt charts during the execution phase of a project?
After a decade of managing software projects, I've found Gantt charts to have very limited use after the Planning phase.
What are the perceived benefits of Gantt charts, especially during the ...
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How to create a visual product road map that follows agile?
My boss loves Gaant charts, because they give you a high level visual overview of the product roadmap.
The problem with Gaant, it is fixed time related and goes completely against the concept of the ...
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When are Gantt diagrams useful?
Since managing projects, I've never figured out the utility of this tool.
We must do it before working, but for me, it's impossible to fill it (even a little) before the end of the project.
When I ...
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Conflict in team over Scrum vs Gantt
I'm a developer in a very small startup consisting of 6 people, and I have decided to cure our lack of organization now that we have clients.
To give a little context, here is our organization:
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Is it possible to reduce costs by crashing a project?
I'm working on a study assignment, which involves creating a WBS and GANTT chart for a 6-month project.
Then I'm supposed expedite one of the tasks by increasing resources to it, thus decreasing the ...
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Best usage of milestones in a Gantt
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I'm building a project Gantt, involving multiple teams. In the past I've had a good experience with a Gantt as a means of planning a project but not so much as a means of tracking a project'...
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Is there are a resource handler or gantt chart creator tool for JIRA? [closed]
I'm hoping someone has some experience on tools and/or better keywords to describe this problem:
I have JIRA system for developers where they provide estimates and track time completed. The estimate ...
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In Jira is it possible to have a gantt chart (or calendar view or similar) derived from your agile board?
I'm very new to Project Management, Agile and similar. I just started trying out Jira to manage the work of a small dev team which clearly needs to become organized (right now they are keeping track ...
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Unable to schedule a 4-hour task completed over 2 days in Gantt Chart
I'm trying to create a detailed Gantt chart, using MS Project 2013, for a project in one of my courses.
Being a student, I'm not working the same number of hours every day. For example, I may have a ...
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Are Gantt Charts useful for single-person projects?
Occasionally, I've been asked to produce a Gantt chart for a project.
A lot of the time, I was the only person assigned to that project. This mostly happened back when I was a student, though my ...
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Microsoft Project - How to quick-filter tasks in this week
As subject, on early Monday, I want to see "what we planned to do in this week". At late Friday, I want to see "what has done/delayed in this week".
However, I can't find how to quick-filter tasks ...
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When are Gantt diagrams NOT useful?
In my experience, there are some projects where using Gantt can be useful, but there are others where a Gantt becomes only a burden. What features of projects should I consider (beyond the basis of my ...
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How to create/track a project Gantt while aggregating multiple functional teams plans
I'm taking over a project as a project manager where several functional teams deliver and integrate. Those teams are also delivering to other projects.
Each of the teams is expected to have its own ...
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What is a "Driving Milestone"?
I'm quite new to the whole project management thing. I'm studying Project Libre right now. It seems pretty decent so far.
I've found this tutorial on creating and using a milestone block. This way ...
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Program management and the value of Gantt charts when dates are predetermined
I work for a very large organization not in the PM role that has historically had problems with project leadership and project management in general. They have recently broken up and were reformed as ...
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What Gantt Chart software can be coupled tightly with the development process for minimum effort required?
From a software developer's point of view, maintaining a gantt chart (such as marking off tasks as complete or reassigning them, etc) can become cumbersome when dealing with a separate piece of ...
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Using MS project for overview with TFS to control the details of a mechanical development project
My group is using TFS for resource commitments. To get a clear overview of the project schedule I would like to use a Gantt chart in MS Project with 3 week sprint periods so we can see how we are ...
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How can I show short tasks (less than 8 hours) in a JIRA Gantt chart?
I recently installed a few apps (like BigPicture) which help you see the order of work of each programmer. The problem is that when I link some tasks with estimates less than one work day, the Gantt ...
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What is the relationship between WBS and Gantt chart? [closed]
It seems all the two do just one thing:
breakthrough the works that we must do in our project.
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What are the metrics that can be analysed or derived from a Gantt Chart?
Firstly, I am a programmer writing a software for analysing gantt charts.
Can someone please explain what types of analysis that project managers often do based on these gantt charts? What types of ...
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How do I auto-level a project mid-duration taking into account % complete on tasks?
I have a MS Project 2007 plan with six months of work in it. I'm updating the % Work Complete on the tasks as we progress through the plan each week and month.
I'm moving the "Project Start" date ...
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Where should one put a large Gantt chart in a project report?
I made a Gantt chart for my computing project at university. I am writing up the thesis at the moment and I am wondering where I should put my Gantt chart.
I currently have my Gantt chart taking up a ...
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How to print task list & gantt chart from a specific date range
I want to print the task list and the Gantt chart in a specific date range (as illustrated in the image below). How can I do it? The default print scheme wastes paper and is difficult to read. I have ...
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In a Gantt chart, how backwards arrows should be interpreted?
In Gantt chart examples on the web I often find this type of relation between two tasks:
I tend to understand an arrow as "the destination task can't be started before completion of the source ...
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MS Project resource graph across multiple projects
I am using MS Project to create Gantt charts for multiple projects. Each project consists of different resources but these resources are shared across all of these projects.
Currently these resources ...
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Gantt charts with ranged estimates?
I'd like to create Gantt charts with ranged estimates (for reporting to non-technical execs) but don't want to use a web service (LiquidPlanner). How can I get Gantt charts with range estimates?
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A term meaning "this phase can go ahead"?
I hope there's some jargon that describes this neatly. I'm trying to specify some software that handles starting a project phase only when all of the phases that it depends on have completed, Gantt-...
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Example Gantt charts in proposals - how to remove dates in MS Project?
We are a B2B service provider. Many of our potential customers want to see a Gantt chart in the proposal. These are created based on a broadly estimated start date.
Our problem: our clients aren't ...
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Should activities before kick-off meeting be represented in a Schedule Plan
I wonder if activities like contract and agreement reviews, meetings to discuss preliminary information, SOW review, and contract approved (as deliverable and milestone) should be included in a gantt ...
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Project Management Gantt Tool makes All Tasks Concurrent
All the gantt tools I have tried make all tasks concurrent, until I specify start date or dependencies. I do not yet know the start date, and not all tasks have dependencies (well not enough to fully ...
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Why can't there be more than one preceeding relationship between two tasks in a Gantt diagram?
Consider two tasks: Coding and Testing. Testing starts some time after Coding starts and continues, until Coding stops.
However, I cannot reflect such a relationship with Planner Project Management. ...
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Let MS Project 2010 assign resources to tasks?
Technical question concerning MS Project 2010:
I have a Gantt with a list of tasks.
For each task I have the work defined (ex: 2 wks).
Each task can only have one person (resource) assigned to it.
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what is resources in gantt chart for IT project
I want to schedule tasks using the Gantt chart. The project is developing a Web application. I was stuck in the selection of resources for each task; knowing the developer for these tasks is only one ...
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Microsoft Project - view resources in hours not percentage
I had assigned resources to tasks in Microsoft Project gantt chart and I would like to see them in hours per resource, not percentages. I know that I can see hours in Resource Usage chart, but maybe ...
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Update project plan, rescheduling and dates
I'm trying to understand the update function in MS Project 2010 and I hope you can help.
Let's say I have a road-project where I have divided a task in to several activities based on where the task ...
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Project, Time, and Task Management software 1 person [closed]
I have spend countless hours trying demos of the 100's of types of project and task management software out there, and none seem to fit the bill of exactly what I am looking to accomplish.
I decided ...
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Programs for making gantt charts [closed]
Other than Microsoft Project what are some of the other programs out there that are great for making gantt charts, the best I could find is GanttProject.
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Exporting a multiple project query from TFS to Project?
In my company most of the projects are within the same TFS (team system) team-project. Though a more general overview is necessary for execs or cross-application services (IT, DBA and such).
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Is it possible to display multiple tasks on a single line using ProjectLibre?
I have a project that I have 15 main tasks on. One of them is Meetings. I have had X meetings, and the duration is 1-day. Is there any way to show multiple bars on a single line showing these Meetings ...
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Gantt chart that automatically distributes hours across multiple concurrent tasks, and automatically rolls over unprogressed tasks
I'm not sure if a Gantt chart / Gantt software is the wrong tool for my use case, or I'm unaware of some technique / terminology.
Given (1) a set of tasks, (2) time estimated to complete each task, ...
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Printing Gantt charts
When I try to print my Gantt schedule, it hides a bunch of my information rows. How can I fix this? See the comparison between actual Gantt and print preview below:
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Displaying logarithmic Gantt or Minute-long tasks for event coordination
Is there a way to show minute-long tasks for event choreography on a Gantt chart?
ProjectLibre is my preferred Gantt tool, and I've not discovered a way to change the display to minutes, but tasks ...
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How to create deliverables column in Gantt chart?
I’m taking Intro to Project Management online and the instructor has required us to produce Gantt charts with deliverables prominently in their own column on the far right. We can use any software we ...
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How can I create a visual timeline of User Stories / Epics from an Excel spreadsheet?
Ideally, I'd like to use an Excel spreadsheet to generate the following for me from columns of "User Story", "Start", and "End". Even if it didn't take it from the spreadsheet and I had to enter all ...
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What is the best process to model planning estimates?
This is quite a simple request.
I have a 150 line Gantt Chart showing project planning to FY end. Approx 30 of the lines are dependencies with Finish to Start attributes. I would like to run ...
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Is there any of Special way of showing Tentative Tasks in a Gantt graph using Project Libre?
I'm documenting a Software Web Application Project Plan. The customers have sent us:
1) snapshots of the various Web pages, and
2) Change Request Snapshots of some existing Web pages that we already ...
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