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How to Draw a Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is intended to provide a visualization of a project schedule. It is developed to help planning, coordinating, and tracking on project tasks implementation. One of the most critical resources for project implementation are time resources. Gantt chart - is one of the most convenient and popular ways of graphical representation of a project tasks progress in conjunction with the corresponding time consumption. Gantt chart's function is to show project tasks completed in progress and to make a project manager sure that project tasks were completed on time. ConceptDraw Office is a clear and easy-to-use tool for project management. It is a very handy visual tool that helps make a project processing clear.

Gantt Chart

The visual reports are the godsend for project management, they help represent the strict numbers and data about the results of project execution in a clear, visual and profitable view. They give the perfect ability to identify and display the most important data on one diagram, they let easily observe the project on different levels of detailing, demonstrate the project attributes, properties and other parameters.

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How to Change the Timescale in a Gantt Chart View

Most views in ConceptDraw PROJECT Server have a timescale that shows the units of project time measurement (hour, day, week, etc.) used to schedule project tasks. You can change the timescale to view smaller or bigger time units, from hours all the way up to years. For example, you may want to show time in quarterы of the yearб or you may want to show a Gantt chart across months and days.

How to Report Task's Execution with Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw PROJECT’s powerful reporting engine lets you generate a set of tabular reports with just one click, or visualize your project as Radial Tasks Structures, Work Breakdown Structures and Resource Calendars. It also provides you with dynamic Project Dashboards.

Gantt Chart Software

ConceptDraw PROJECT is a powerful Gantt Chart Software. The Gantt Charts are useful for displaying a large amount of detailed information, project tasks and timelines in a visually pleasing, easy-to-understand format. ConceptDraw PROJECT provides wide capabilities of importing and exporting in various formats: Microsoft Project, ConceptDraw MINDMAP , Mindjet MindManager, PDF file.

Gantt Chart Software

The Gantt Chart is the main interface in ConceptDraw PROJECT. It summarizes the tasks in your project and presents them graphically so you can easily view your progress.

Gantt Project Management

Having such a full-featured project management tool as ConceptDraw PROJECT, you get all the needed features in order to successfully execute all the planned projects. The mentioned features include both task management, reporting, change control and resource management. As long as there is ConceptDraw Office installed on your desktop, you can always have the needed integration that helps improve project management in your organization. It can be done by leveraging the power of data visualization and mind mapping in particular.

Project Diagrams

The Project Diagrams solution extends the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software functionality with special tools, large set of samples pre-made in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP, and collection of predesigned vector shapes, arrows, table and frame objects for easy drawing the Project Diagrams of different kinds, Hierarchical Charts, Influence Diagrams, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Organization Breakdown Structures (OBS), and Resource Breakdown Structures (RBS), PERT Chart or PERT Diagram, Project Management Chart, Project Network Diagram, Network Diagram Project Management, Project Timeline, Precedence Diagram, Gantt Diagram or Gantt Chart. Plan your project, visualize the main stages, and track your project’s implementation effectively with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. Use also ability to autogenerate Project Diagrams from ConceptDraw MINDMAP to ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Program Evaluation and Review Technique <br>(PERT) with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM *

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (abbr. PERT) is a method developed by Ministry of Defense of the USA in 1958 for the project of creation the missile system Polaris. PERT diagram is one of the tools for project management that lets greatly simplify the planning and scheduling of large and complex projects. PERT diagram provides evaluation of project run-time and labor forces, it helps to analyze the time necessary for execution each of project tasks and the whole project, and to calculate the project critical path. PERT chart depicts the set of tasks connected each other in order of their execution and is constructed according to one of definite rules - AOA (activity on arrow) or AON (activity on node). It doesn't give you ready concrete decisions, but helps to find them. Design easy the PERT diagrams in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software enhanced with Seven Management and Planning Tools solution from Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. You have a possibility to build the PERT chart of any type, but AON variant is easier for building and perception.

What is Gantt Chart (historical reference)

Historical reference about the Gantt chart.

Software Diagrams

Modern software development begins with designing different software diagrams and also uses a large amount of diagrams in project management and creation graphic documentation. Very popular diagrams that depict a work of applications in various cuts and notations, describe databases and prototype Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Software engineering specialists and software designers prefer to use special technical and business graphics tools and applications for easy creation diagrams. One of the most popular is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM offers the possibility of drawing with use of wide range of pre-drawn shapes and smart connectors, which allow to focus not on the process of drawing, but on the task's essence. It is a perfect application for design and document development, planning tasks, visualization of data, design the databases, object-oriented design, creation flowcharts of algorithms, modeling business processes, project management, automation of management and development processes, and for many other tasks.

How to Discover Critical Path on a Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw PROJECT is the Gantt chart software that implements critical path method to provide the user with a wide set of project management tools.

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How to Add a Color Marker to Project Task on a Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw PROJECT Server allows adding color markers to scheduled project tasks. A color marker is used to show whether a task is marked for further action or identification of some kind. You can use markers if you want to select certain tasks for further viewing, filtering, formatting, or editing in the offline mode.

Export from ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Document to MS Visio® XML

Once you have created your document in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and you want to share it with your colleagues and friends, who uses MS Visio on their computers, you can easily export your document using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM export to Visio XML files (VDX) feature. Now you can share your ConceptDraw documents with MS Visio users.

Export to MS Visio® XML

Project Management Package

project management, scrum, agile, business

Project Management Package includes a large set of graphical solutions from the ConceptDraw Solution Park. They are selected specially to help in completing the business and management goals, creating business models and modeling business processes, analyzing business progress and efficiency of projects implementation. The tools of this package's solutions are helpful to create number of diagrams and dashboards including Management Diagrams, Business diagrams, Bubble diagrams, Circle-spoke diagrams, Circular arrows diagrams, Venn diagrams, Scrum charts, Kanban boards, Business Intelligence maps, Business Metric charts, Dynamic charts, Project diagrams, Hierarchical charts, Influence diagrams, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Resource Breakdown Structures (RBS), PERT Diagrams, Project management charts, Project timelines, Gantt Charts, Funnel diagrams, Stakeholder Onion diagrams, and many more.

In Searching of Alternative to MS Visio for Mac and PC

with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Undoubtedly MS Visio is a powerful and multifunctional tool, but however at times occur the instances, when it turns unable of meeting certain users' requirements. At this cases you may need to use an alternative program software, preferably it will be simple, convenient, and at the same time powerful and professional. In searching the alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC we recommend you to pay attention for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software, which was developed to satisfy all your drawing needs and requirements. It is a fully-functioned alternative product to MS Visio for both platforms. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software has many advantages, the main among them are the cross-platform compatibility, a reasonable price, widespread ConceptDraw Solution Park with huge variety of different solutions that offer numerous libraries of specialized vector objects, useful examples, samples, and quick-start templates, extensive import / export capabilities, built-in script language, MS Visio support and certainly free technical support.

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How to Create a Gantt Chart for Your Project

Instruction on how to create Gantt chart using ConceptDraw PROJECT software. Gant Chart is a graphical representation of tasks as segments on a time scale. It helps plan or overlapping.

TQM Diagram Example

The Total Quality Management Diagram solution helps you and your organization visualize business and industrial processes. Create Total Quality Management diagrams for business process with ConceptDraw software.