Project — Working With Tasks

A full-featured project management solution with all the necessary functions right at your fingertips. Generates an extensive variety of reports on project and task statuses. These videos provide a series of lessons that will enhance the understanding of all our users, from people just starting out with the software, through to expert users.

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 Diagram

Gantt Chart is a popular type of bar charts and widely used projects planning method. It helps to illustrate the plan for some project, the progress of tasks, the resources planning, the schedule of works and working time. The Gantt Chart contains a set of intervals (bars) located on the time axis and reflects the use of resources by objects. Each bar represents a separate task in the project, its length is a duration of the work. The vertical axis of the graph represents the list of tasks. Besides, the chart can contain additional data, such as the percents of complete, the total tasks, the tasks dependencies, the key points (milestones), etc. The use of Gantt Chart greatly simplifies the project management and enables to visualize in visual and compressed view the most important information of the project, what resources are used for execution the certain tasks and which must to be the speed of their execution. ConceptDraw Office suite applications help to cope perfectly the project management tasks, to construct easily the basic structure of your project and create a Gantt Chart Diagram. PM Easy solution allows you to plan and execute the projects using the mind mapping technique, to implement planning using mind mapping, and track tasks using ConceptDraw Project.

WBS Diagram

To simplify the managing of a complex project, it is advisable to divide it into the components in a hierarchical tree structure, called by Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). WBS diagram clearly divides all the works and tasks that must be done to achieve the objectives of the project, into the smaller operations and actions. Such division of the project accelerates the allocation of resources and establishes the areas of responsibility for each team member. WBS diagram is one of the main planning tools frequently used by project managers, it allows you to clearly define the entire scope of work on the project, to describe in details the content of these works and to arrange them in a form of hierarchical structure. The better you detailing the WBS, the more accurate will be all actions. The optimal size of elements is from the few days to several months. ConceptDraw Office suite applications and ConceptDraw Solution Park contain a lot of tools actively applied in project management, in their quantity is included the possibility of easy creation professional-looking Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) diagrams.

Gant Chart in Project Management

Gantt Chart is a graphical representation of tasks as segments on a time scale. It helps plan and monitor project development or resource allocation. There are list of tasks, project milesones and stages. The horizontal axis is a time scale, expressed either in absolute or relative time. Gantt chart can be used for planning in virtually any industry. There are major project planning tools using gantt chart for creating project plan. For instance, using ConceptDraw PROJECT together with ConceptDraw MINDMAP for planning marketing actions is very effective way. It makes ConceptDraw Office best marketing project management software for gantt chart planning marketing message, scheduling stages when to send massive text messages or when use email marketing services in specific projects. There are simple steps on how to use project management software for marketing, sales actions and product support. This is simple all in one toolbox for managers who need best project management software for small business as for planning and brainstorming as for reporting at project execution stage. Using gantt charts together with mindmap visuals and professional presentations charts make it excellent creative project management software. ConceptDraw PROJECT is portfolio project management software it allows manage many projects with multi gantt chart.

PERT Chart Software

PERT Chart Software - Activity Network and Project Evaluation and Review Technique, or PERT, charts are a way of documenting and analyzing the tasks in a project. ConceptDraw PRO is a powerful diagramming and vector drawing software for designing professional looking PERT Charts quick and easy.

Advanced printing in ConceptDraw Project

ConceptDraw PROJECT has flexible print settings that allowing you to easily print your project data to suite any need.

Gantt chart examples

All Gantt charts were made using ConceptDraw PROJECT. ConceptDraw PROJECT works both on Windows and Mac OS X. It allows to schedule a voluntary number of projects in a single Workspace document and lets easily share tasks and resources among them. ConceptDraw PROJECT shares files among Windows and Mac OS X.

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.

Horizontal Org Flow Chart

This sample was created in ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software using the Organizational Charts Solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. The Organizational Chart is a diagram that shows the structure of the organization, different levels of management, hierarchy and the relationships of the organization parts.

Process Flow Chart

A Process Flow Chart is a type of flowchart which is mostly used in industrial, chemical and process engineering for illustrating high-level processes, major plant processes and not shows minor details. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts Solution from the "What is a Diagram" Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is the best way to create Process Flow Chart and other types of flowcharts.

How to Create Gantt Chart

To begin managing a new project, you will need to define the individual Tasks that must be completed to deliver it. The default view for a new project in ConceptDraw PROJECT is the Gantt Chart.