Online Gantt Charts

Online Gantt chart software from Projectplace is an easy-to-use tool, and an easy way to help your teams reach your organizational goals and objectives. With the click of your mouse, set up a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with:

• The start and end dates of your project
• The milestones and activities within your project
• The milestone dates
• The start and end dates of the activities
• Defined dependencies between activities

Get as high-level or as granular as you need: Projectplace online Gantt charts support simple and complex parent/child relationships to ensure your plan reflects your organization’s objectives.

The result: you and all your team members get a visual understanding of the totality of the project. Plus, automated linking to Kanban boards and cards ensures that execution happens in line with the plan.

Projectplace comes with Gantt chart templates that help you get started quickly. Teams can leverage these templates to hit the ground running, across many organizations:

• Marketing
• HR
• Services
• Facilities
• IT

These Gantt chart templates are built on best practices and thousands of hours of use in companies across the globe to help you ensure success, and are easy to adapt to the way you work.

Marketing teams, for example, will find prebuilt and prepopulated templates for items such as event planning; this specific template includes prepopulated activities such as:

• Brainstorming for themes
• Marketing the event digitally and traditionally
• Venue choice and setup
• Speaker selection
• Food, drink, and entertainment setup
• Managing the event in flight
• And much more – and this is just one of hundreds of templates Projectplace includes for you

Also provided is a project timeline template, which shows all the critical activities, milestones, and deadlines of a project on one line, from a project’s start to its end. This template summarizes a project visually, helping a project manager communicate the status of a project to management and other stakeholders.

Projectplace delivers simple Gantt charts with a modern and intuitive interface, but the functionality is robust and flexible for the lean enterprise.

Easily drag and drop the Gantt bars to update dates when demand changes. This is critical in today’s environment, where teams must adjust to the realities of scope creep due to new customer requests; unexpected competitor announcements; changes in legal requirements; supply chain disruption; employee changes; or simply the realization that the work will take longer than expected.

With a click, adjust the timeline: see the change reflected immediately in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and understand how the change affects the various parent/child relationships in your plan and all the linked activities.

Projectplace Gantt charts enable your team to work together better. Attach relevant documents of virtually any file type to activities in your online Gantt charts, so that all team members have the information they need, right where they need it. Documents are stored in Projectplace’s highly secure document repository, with full versioning and granular access rights. Attach any documents that are important to your project:

• Microsoft Office documents
• Video files
• Images
• Adobe PDFs
• CAD drawings
• Virtually any files that are necessary to your project can be attached to your plans

The Projectplace Gantt chart also offers a Conversations stream for real-time collaboration. By simply referencing team members, or emailing other people with subject matter expertise – either inside or outside the organization – those on the project, no matter their physical location, can quickly and easily:

• Resolve questions
• Discuss new information
• Quickly call a virtual meeting

These conversations are contextualized against a specific activity, which make it easy to get everyone on the same page, and are logged for quick reference in the future.

Encourage team members to report time against activities; this ensures that they stay on top of the work they’ve done, while giving project managers easy insight into which activities are taking too many resources, which tasks are going undone, and which team members need some assistance.

Create Kanban cards directly from a Gantt chart activity to enable execution that’s in line with objectives and creates an automatic link between the chart and the card. This will keep the two associated, and supports a streamlined approach to execution.

Projectplace uniquely integrates planning and execution between Gantt charts and Kanban boards with the Collaborative Workstreams capability. When team members move a Kanban card to the “closed” column on a Kanban board, you can see this action reflected in your Gantt chart, giving you and all stakeholders a quick view of progress.

When you connect Gantt chart activities to Kanban boards, you create a more streamlined interaction between activities, boards and cards that:

• Provides a single consolidated view of all tasks necessary to complete an activity on the plan
• Allows project managers and teams to collaborate and break down work in a single view
• Enables team members to unclutter Kanban boards containing long lists of completed cards

The visual aspect of Projectplace online Gantt charts (referred to by some as Gantt diagrams) minimize the time required to understand where the bottlenecks are in a project. Project managers can quickly update stakeholders on the status of their projects:

• What’s on track?
• Resource issues
• Real-time forecasts of bottlenecks
• What it will take to deliver on time and budget