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Gantt Chart

What Question(s) Does the Tool or Technique Answer?

How long will the project take? What are the key milestones, and when should you expect them?

A Gantt chart helps you to

• Organize the project’s activities.

• Display and communicate the project’s planned activities and key milestones, as well as its status on the actual progress to-date.

Alternative Names and Variations

This tool is also known as

• Milestone chart

• Project bar chart or (misnomer as “project plan”)

• Activity chart

When Best to Use the Tool or Technique

The Gantt chart tool is an important project management tool and is used throughout a project. Initially, a Gantt chart is developed during the planning phase of a project and is used to monitor progress throughout ...

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