Project Management: Gantt Chart

A Gantt Chart, commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities (tasks or events) and dependency displayed against time.

On the left of the chart is a list of the activities and along the top is a suitable time scale. Each activity is represented by a bar; the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and end date of the activity. The dependency between activities is indicated by arrows.

GanttProject is free, Java based, project management software that runs under the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. It features most basic project management functions like a Gantt chart for project scheduling of tasks, and doing resource management using resource load charts.

The major features of GanttProject include:

•     Create Work Breakdown Structure
•     Task Hierarchy and Dependencies
•     Gantt Chart
•     Resource Load Chart
•     Generation of PERT Chart
•     PDF and HTML Reports

Resource:

1. You can download the GanttProject form the link (GanttProject). 
2. The handbook of GanttProject  can be found here. 
3. There are many video tutorials on the YouTube. You can start with this one. 
4. A Gantt Chart created last year can be downloaded here.