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What Is A Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is a bar chart used in project management that displays activities or tasks along a timescale. Each activity is represented by a bar showing its start date, duration, and end date. This allows the viewer to see at a glance what activities need to be done, when each activity occurs, how long activities take, and if any activities overlap. While the first Gantt chart was created in the 1890s by Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki, it was popularized in the early 1900s by American engineer Henry Gantt, whose name became associated with this type of chart. Modern Gantt charts can now be easily created and updated using project management software.

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What Is A Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is a bar chart used in project management that displays activities or tasks along a timescale. Each activity is represented by a bar showing its start date, duration, and end date. This allows the viewer to see at a glance what activities need to be done, when each activity occurs, how long activities take, and if any activities overlap. While the first Gantt chart was created in the 1890s by Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki, it was popularized in the early 1900s by American engineer Henry Gantt, whose name became associated with this type of chart. Modern Gantt charts can now be easily created and updated using project management software.

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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
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.

Karol Adamiecki

Henry Gantt

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.
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.

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