The Gantt chart is a convenient and universal way to organize data about your project.
No matter how large or complex your project is, a Gantt chart can efficiently manage any number of tasks when scheduling. It can also show dependencies between these tasks, their key milestones, as well as other important information that you can customize.
Thanks to the Gantt chart, the risks of missing deadlines or incorrectly allocating resources—whether time, financial, or human—tend to be minimized.
Moreover, any changes you make to your project are automatically reflected in the Gantt chart. This means you don’t need to think about how a particular action will affect the project—it is immediately displayed on the chart automatically.
With a well-designed Gantt chart in GanttPRO, you gain a comprehensive view of your project, allowing you not only to track progress easily but also to receive timely alerts about potential challenges and take proactive action.
Thanks to its transparency and intuitiveness, the Gantt chart is also an excellent way to share information on project progress and any changes that need to be made with team members and other stakeholders.
The advantage of the Gantt chart in GanttPRO
The Gantt chart in GanttPRO is one of the best-designed charts because it provides a wide range of features while, at the same time, thanks to its customization options, allows you to select only what is specifically needed for your project.
Below you will find the main features that make the Gantt chart in GanttPRO stand out from other solutions on the market:
Deadlines
One of the main goals of any project is to be completed on time. That’s why setting and managing deadlines is such an essential part of planning. With the Gantt chart in GanttPRO, meeting your deadlines becomes much easier and more transparent.
When creating tasks and subtasks in your project, you can also set dependencies between them. This means that whenever you make changes to one task, the tool will automatically show how it affects the progress or timing of another. As a result, you always have a clear picture of your deadlines, since the GanttPRO chart automatically adjusts to reflect any changes.
Secondly, on a Gantt chart, you can also set project milestones. They are key events that mark the completion of important phases, rather than individual tasks. Milestones help to understand how well the project is progressing and allow for the prompt identification of scheduling issues and the control of deadlines.
Milestones are visualized as diamond-shaped markers, making them stand out from the horizontal bars that represent tasks. Deadlines, on the other hand, are shown as small flame icons positioned at the end of the corresponding task bar, indicating the due date.
Overdue Tasks
The Overdue Tasks feature allows you to see all the tasks that were due in the past but whose progress is less than 100% or are marked as “Open” or “In progress.”
This helps you take the necessary actions to ensure these delays don’t affect the overall completion of the project. These overdue tasks will be highlighted in red on the chart, which makes them immediately noticeable.
You can learn how to track overdue tasks in the Tasks section.
Critical path
A critical path is a sequence of tasks that can affect a project completion date. So, if some of the tasks from the critical path are delayed, the end date of the project will also be delayed.
Traditionally, a critical path has been calculated by hand, but GanttPRO can do it automatically for you. So, if you enable a critical path on a Gantt chart, you will immediately see all the tasks that directly impact the project completion date.
See how building a critical path in GanttPRO can help you manage your product more efficiently.
Auto Scheduling
Another distinctive feature of GanttPRO is the Auto Scheduling function, which automatically recalculates task schedules when you change the start and/or end dates of tasks connected by dependencies, or when you create new dependencies between them.
This feature is enabled by default for all new projects, but you can always turn it off in Project Settings and plan your projects manually.
Zoom
Another interesting feature of the Gantt chart in GanttPRO is the Zoom option. Thanks to it, you can choose exactly how you want to set the timeline for your project — in hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, or even years, depending on the duration and type of your project and tasks.
To configure the timeline of the Gantt chart, simply move the Zoom slider in the top right corner and select the most suitable option.