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What Is A Gantt Chart? Gantt Chart Software, Information, and History What Is A Gantt Chart?

A Gantt chart is a bar chart that displays activities along a timeline, showing when each activity starts and finishes. It allows you to see the activities, schedule, and overlaps at a glance. The first Gantt chart was created in the 1890s by Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki, but it was popularized in the early 1900s by American engineer Henry Gantt. Originally created by hand, Gantt charts can now be easily generated and updated using project management software. They are commonly used today to track project schedules and additional task details.

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What Is A Gantt Chart? Gantt Chart Software, Information, and History What Is A Gantt Chart?

A Gantt chart is a bar chart that displays activities along a timeline, showing when each activity starts and finishes. It allows you to see the activities, schedule, and overlaps at a glance. The first Gantt chart was created in the 1890s by Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki, but it was popularized in the early 1900s by American engineer Henry Gantt. Originally created by hand, Gantt charts can now be easily generated and updated using project management software. They are commonly used today to track project schedules and additional task details.

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What is a Gantt Chart?

Gantt Chart Software,


Information, and History

What is a Gantt Chart?


A
Gantt chart, commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities
(tasks or events) displayed against time. On the left of the chart is a list of the activities and along the top is a suitable
time scale. Each activity is represented by a bar; the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and
end date of the activity. This allows you to see at a glance:

What the various activities are


When each activity begins and ends
How long each activity is scheduled to last
Where activities overlap with other activities, and by how much
The start and end date of the whole project

To summarize, a Gantt chart shows you what has to be done (the activities) and when (the schedule).

A simple Gantt chart

Gantt Chart History


The
first Gantt chart was devised in the mid 1890s by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish engineer who ran a steelworks in
southern Poland and had become interested in management ideas and techniques.

Some 15 years after Adamiecki, Henry Gantt,


an American engineer and project management consultant, devised his
own
version of the chart and it was this that became widely known and popular in western countries. Consequently, it
was Henry Gantt whose name was to become associated with charts of this type.

Originally
Gantt charts were prepared laboriously by hand; each time a project changed it was necessary to amend or
redraw the chart and this limited their usefulness, continual change being a feature of most projects. Nowadays,
however, with the advent of computers and project management software, Gantt charts can be created, updated and
printed easily.
Karol Adamiecki

Henry Gantt

Today,
Gantt charts are most commonly used for tracking project schedules. For
this it is useful to be able to show
additional information about the various tasks or phases of the project, for example how the tasks relate
to each other,
how far each task has progressed, what resources are being used for each task and so on.

Part of a more advanced Gantt chart


Gantt Chart Information

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