Gantt Charts – Everything You Need to Know in 2022

Udn Webber

Managing Editor

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According to ProjectManager’s Global Trends in Project Management 2022 , Gantt charts are still the most preferred format of project management, topping the list at 36% of project managers surveyed. Additionally, 60% of respondents used a Gantt chart for 50-100% of their projects.

Rachel Jennette, PMP certified Project Manager at Slingshot uses Gantt charts to see a breakdown of work tasks over time and for showing overall timelines.

“The Gantt view is perfect to use when showing the overall vision of the project, as it ties details with high level overview. I also find it’s very useful for many types of project meetings, to show why things need to be done at a certain deadline and also what is dependent on those things happening. “

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Anton Strelets, Product Manager at Lawrina sums it up.

“Gantt is about calendar planing and dependencies. I need to know the answers to 4 questions:

So, here are the step-by-step instructions you need to help answer these questions and build a Gantt chart for your team.

Strelet, who works with programmers, in-house employees, and freelancers, says it’s imperative to know how many total hours and how many days something will take, as well as factor in things going wrong.

“For example, a freelancer might need 10 hours to finish some work. But he works from home in the evening, and every day he can spend just 3-4 hours on the project. So he will need 3-4 days to accomplish it. That’s why, I take 4 days + 1 day for testing/bug fixing. It means, that I will pay for 10 hours, but I will see result at the end of the week. “

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Jennette sometimes uses Gantt charts for app and software development and emphasizes the need to show the phases of a project.

“When we move from development to testing, it’s important to understand how much time will be needed in testing, in order to make sure the testers are available and the developers have it done and ready for them.”

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So just what are the benefits of Gantt Charts?

Gantt charts help you:

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super-convenient way

spell disaster

critical for meeting deadlines

Falling behind doesn’t mean you can’t catch up!

1. Bar sizes can be misleading

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doesn’t indicate the number of hours it will take to complete the task

If you look at your Gantt chart, you might think that the short bar task is less complex and intensive when that might not actually be the case!

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why

You just have to keep track of it.

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