The Gantt Chart

This article will introduce the Gantt Chart how to use it in practise and how it can be combined with other tools or methods to improve its capabilities. The Gantt Chart was the first time created by a Polish engineer named Karol Adamiecki (born March 18th 1866). It is a tool that is very commonly used in project management as it is great for displaying different activities against time. Because of todays technology it has become much easier to create a Gantt Chart and get an overview of the interdependencies of the different activities within a project as many different computer programs can help creating a Gantt Chart fast and easy.

It can however be very confusing to create a Gantt Chart by using different computer programs as there are a lot of different informations that can be put into a Gantt Chart. So choosing the right program compared to how detailed you want it to be can be a hard choice. One of the easier tools to use if you need a simple Gantt Chart is Microsoft Visio which should be available from Microsoft Dreamspark (https://www.dreamspark.com/) for students at DTU.