Gantt Chart

There are a variety of features and capabilities available to you when producing a Gantt chart in graphics mode. For example, you can draw a logic Gantt chart that displays the precedence relationships by drawing directed arcs between related activities. You can also produce a labeled Gantt chart using the labeling mechanism, which allows you to label a Gantt chart with a minimum of effort and data entry. A zoned Gantt chart separates the activities of the project into different zones based on the values of a specified zone variable. The annotate facility enables you to add resource histograms, cost curves, and so forth to the Gantt chart. You can also produce Gantt charts for multiprocess projects by displaying the different process schedules for each activity on the same row. Each of the individual processes can be color coded and labeled.

The actual versus planned Gantt chart enables you to track the progress of your project against the original planned schedule. You can draw a resource-constrained schedule that can include multiple segments for each activity due to splitting of activities. In addition, you can display a baseline schedule on a Gantt chart and compare the current schedule with it.

You can generate a Gantt chart for displaying multiproject schedules by highlighting the summary bars, displaying WBS codes, and indicating the hierarchy using indentation or by indicating the project hierarchy level.

My project’s forward scheduling by Gantt charts are illustrated below.