Project management

Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart represents a project's schedule over time as horizontal bars, showing task dependencies, milestones and the owner of each step.

Why it matters

It gives an immediate overview of critical dependencies, useful for anticipating how a delay on one task will impact the entire schedule.

Concrete example

A project manager uses a Gantt chart to show that a two-week delay in testing automatically pushes back the go-live date.

Related notions

Critical pathMilestonesProject scheduling

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