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Gantt Chart

The Gantt Chart is the project's interactive schedule. You create tasks with start and finish dates, link them with dependencies, assign resources, and mark milestones — all laid out on a horizontal time axis. Tasks that fall on the critical path are highlighted so you can see at a glance what is driving the finish date.

Sidebar location: Track → Gantt Chart (/projects/gantt-chart).

What you can put on the schedule

  • Tasks — units of work with a Start date, a Finish date, and an optional Resource (owner).
  • Milestones — zero-duration markers for events such as PDR, CDR, or ship.
  • Dependencies — links between tasks so that one task's timing constrains another.
  • Resources — the person or team responsible for a task.

Walkthrough

  1. Open the Gantt Chart from Track → Gantt Chart. The current schedule loads on the time axis.
  2. Click Add task. Enter a Name, set the Start and Finish dates, and assign a Resource.
  3. To create a milestone, add a task and mark it as a milestone (zero duration). It renders as a diamond on the timeline.
  4. Add Dependencies between tasks so the schedule reflects the real order of work. Dependent tasks shift when a predecessor moves.
  5. Read the timeline. Critical-path tasks — the chain with no slack that sets the project finish date — are highlighted.
  6. Adjust dates or resources as the plan evolves; the timeline updates to reflect the change.

AI Assistant prompts

Suggest a draft schedule for this project based on the requirements baseline and a target ship date of 2026-09-30.

Which tasks are on the critical path right now, and why?

Identify tasks that look likely to slip given their duration and dependencies.

Tips

  • Anchor to milestones first. Set PDR/CDR/ship, then fill in the tasks between them — it keeps task-level changes grounded.
  • Keep dependencies honest. A missing dependency hides real schedule pressure; the critical-path highlight is only as good as the links you draw.
  • Drive risk analysis from here. Once tasks carry three-point estimates, the Schedule Risk Monte Carlo can quantify how likely the finish date really is.

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