Gantt Chart

Build a Gantt chart for your project and manage the work structure, deadlines, resource plan, and task dependencies.

Project Plan

The Gantt chart in Timetta helps create a project schedule with phases, tasks, deadlines, and progress. It defines the project's structural framework, visualizes task durations, deadlines, and logical connections between tasks. In Timetta, it is also linked to the resource plan and helps control the planned project cost.

Project plan elements

  1. Phases and tasks
    Create a hierarchical project structure with phases, tasks, and individual activities.
  2. Deadlines
    Set start and end dates for tasks and display them on the timeline.
  3. Progress
    Monitor the completion of individual tasks and the overall progress of the project.
  4. Project structure
    Display the sequence and nesting of elements in the project schedule.
High-level project plan on the Gantt chart

Resource Plan

The Gantt chart is linked to the project's resource plan, where labor is distributed among team members, tasks, and time periods. This allows you to view the project schedule in terms of actual team workload and cost: who, when, and in what volume should perform project tasks.

Resource planning capabilities

  1. Team members
    Distribute planned labor among assigned project executors.
  2. Project tasks
    Link hour estimates to specific phases and tasks in the schedule.
  3. Time periods
    Plan team workload by days, weeks, months, and other periods.
  4. Planned cost
    Calculate the cost of work based on assignments, hours, and resource rates.
Project resource plan in Timetta

Integration with task tracker

In Timetta, you can create a Gantt chart for a project and link it to tasks on Kanban and Scrum boards. Within Timetta, the Gantt chart becomes a high-level plan that reflects the actual work of the team with its current tasks, sprints, backlog, statuses, and workflow.

Task tracker data

  1. Tasks
    Link elements of the project plan to actual team tasks.
  2. Sprints
    Consider task distribution by sprints when monitoring the schedule.
  3. Backlog
    Compare the high-level plan with the current list and priorities of work.
  4. Statuses and workflow
    Track the actual status of tasks and their movement through the execution process.
Linking the Gantt chart with Kanban and Scrum tasks

Task links

Timetta supports classic task links on the Gantt chart: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish. Task links and dependencies help describe the logical sequence of work, see the relationships between plan elements, and more accurately assess the impact of deadline changes.

Link types

  1. Finish-to-start
    The next task starts after the completion of the previous one.
  2. Start-to-start
    The start of one task depends on the start of another task.
  3. Finish-to-finish
    The completion of one task depends on the completion of another task.
  4. Start-to-finish
    The completion of one task depends on the start of the related task.
Task links on the Gantt chart

Critical path

The Gantt chart in Timetta shows the project's critical path — a chain of linked tasks that determines the project's completion date. Tasks and links on the critical path are highlighted on the timeline so that the manager can immediately see tasks whose delay directly affects the project's completion date.

Critical path control

  1. Linked tasks
    Control the sequence of tasks that determines the project's completion date.
  2. Timeline highlighting
    Highlight critical tasks and their connections on the timeline.
  3. Impact of delays
    Identify tasks whose delay will affect the project's end date.
  4. Multiple critical paths
    Track several independent critical paths that determine the project's end date.
Critical path on the Gantt chart

Auto-scheduling

Auto-scheduling in Timetta links task deadlines, assignments, durations, and labor estimates to the resource plan. When assignments, durations, utilization percentages, or hour estimates change, the system can automatically adjust the resource plan, and moving a task on the timeline shifts related estimates along with the task.

Auto-scheduling parameters

  1. Assignments
    Adjust planned labor when adding or removing assignees.
  2. Duration
    Recalculate the resource plan when changing task duration.
  3. Utilization percentage
    Consider the portion of an assignee's work time allocated to a specific task.
  4. Hour estimate
    Synchronize task deadlines and distribution of planned labor.
Auto-scheduling of tasks and resources

Milestones and checkpoints

On the Gantt chart, you can use milestones and checkpoints to mark key project events. Milestones show important events on the timeline, and checkpoints help manage the project by gates: marking decision-making moments and transitions to the next phases.

Key project events

  1. Milestones
    Mark the completion of phases, delivery of results, and other important project dates.
  2. Checkpoints
    Record moments to check the project's status and viability.
  3. Management decisions
    Make decisions to continue, modify, or terminate the project.
  4. Phase transitions
    Control the fulfillment of conditions to start the next phase of work.
Milestones and checkpoints on the Gantt chart

Filters and indicators

The Gantt chart uses visual highlights and indicators to quickly get information about the progress of work. You can also use filters to find plan elements by specified parameters. This reduces manual graph checking and helps quickly identify areas that need attention.

Control tools

  1. Filters
    Select plan elements by project data and specified conditions.
  2. Indicators
    Get additional information about the status of work directly on the plan.
  3. Visual highlights
    Highlight elements that require the project manager's attention.
  4. Finding deviations
    Quickly identify problematic areas and changes in the project schedule.
Highlights and indicators on the Gantt chart

Sharing and exporting

You can share the Gantt chart with project participants, management, or external stakeholders. The plan can be downloaded in Excel, PNG, or JPEG, or published via an external link to quickly share the current project schedule without manually preparing presentations or screenshots.

Publishing methods

  1. Excel
    Export schedule data for further processing and analysis.
  2. PNG
    Save the chart as an image for documents and presentations.
  3. JPEG
    Export the plan image in a common graphic format.
  4. External link
    Publish the current chart for viewing without sending separate files.
Sharing and exporting the Gantt chart

Frequently asked questions

If you didn't find the answer to your question, contact the sales department.

To build a Gantt chart in Timetta, create a project, add phases, tasks, and activities, set deadlines, task links, milestones, and checkpoints. After that, Timetta will display the project structure on the timeline and help manage the project schedule.

The Gantt chart supports classic task links: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish. These links help describe the sequence of work and dependencies between project tasks.

The Gantt chart is a visual tool for displaying the sequence of work. In Timetta, it works more broadly and essentially acts as a calendar-network schedule in MS Project logic. The resource plan links project tasks to specific hours of assignees, helping to plan team workload and calculate project cost.

Auto-scheduling in Timetta works in MS Project logic: when task deadlines are moved, related deadlines in the resource plan are also moved. If task dependencies or time lags are specified, dependent tasks are also shifted in the schedule.

Milestones mark important project events on the timeline: phase completion, delivery of results, or other key dates. Checkpoints are used for management control: checking status, making decisions, and moving the project to the next phase.

Yes. You can download the Gantt chart in Excel, PNG, or JPEG.

Yes. You can share the Gantt chart via an external link to provide the current project schedule to participants, management, or external stakeholders.

Yes. You can create a Gantt chart in the free online service Timetta Lite Free. The only limitation is the number of users, no more than 10 people. All Gantt chart features, including the critical path, milestones, filters, and task links, are available without restrictions.

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