What is a Gantt chart?

A Gantt chart (also known as a harmonogram) is a floating horizontal bar chart that helps to visualize the work breakdown of a project and its schedule.It lists the individual tasks on a vertical axis, and time intervals on a horizontal time axis.

The length of the horizontal bars shows the planned time for each task.Their start and end points display from which date or time to which has been scheduled.

The Gantt chart helps project managers to estimate and later track the whole project. With it, you can easily visualize which tasks run parallel to each other and their dependencies.

Vizzlo’s Gantt chart was designed to assist project managers in planning and communicating their projects, assigning activities to team members, and tracking the work progress. It makes it easy to plan and grasp task-related and project-wide milestones and deadlines, as well as critical dependencies.

Turn your project data into beautiful, presentation-worthy Gantt charts!

Best uses for Gantt chart

• Project management
• Roadmap planning
• Team coordination
• Awareness of task dependency (what needs to be finished before the next process can be started?)
• Process structure
• Timeline scheduling
• Achieving goals and meeting deadlines

How to make a Gantt chart with Vizzlo

• This Vizzard is a straightforward and easy-to-use Gantt chart maker.
• Browse our examples to get inspired, plan your project schedules in minutes, and collaborate with your team.
• Watch the video tutorial or follow these easy steps:
• Click on any element to select and edit it
• Drag and drop activities, task segments, and milestones to reposition them
• Use the cards in the sidebar as support to enter the start and end dates of activities (segments), create milestones, set dependencies and progress
• Easily copy and paste your data, or import it from Excel and other spreadsheet tools (CSV, XLS and XLSX)
• Explore the customization options on the tab “APPEARANCE” of the sidebar to set the granularity, hide/show grids and columns, etc

Gantt chart: pro tips

• Color-coding your bars can help you categorize tasks into groups and make it easier to keep an eye on your project phases
• Use the Harvey balls to indicate the progress/current status of each task

Gantt chart maker: key features

• Project and task-related milestones
• Task dependencies
• Progress/Harvey Balls
• Different axis granularities and date formats
• Custom task styles and colors
• Optional highlight of weekends
• Optional shadow

Resources

• Step-by-step tutorial