The supply chain department and the sales department will need to know how they will be able to push the product out to the retailers. Marketing will have to create an identity for the product and then create advertising campaigns for the product. You will have to ensure that the product can be manufactured within your company’s factory and create a production schedule for it. The project will involve multiple people and multiple processes running at the same time. Let’s say you are trying to estimate how long it will take create a new product and send it to the market.
Gantt Charts become much easier to understand with the help of an example.
6.1 Being too optimistic with time estimates. 6 Common pitfalls when making Gantt Charts. Additionally, you can also specify the resource field, which would be listed next the bar in the Gantt. You can use any relevant field from your project as Legend for example task type for this purpose. You can also control the color of the bar with a Legend. Please note that the %Completion expects a decimal value ( for example 0.85 means 85%) and Start Date, a date field and not a date hierarchy. With this custom visual, you can specify the Tasks, Start Date, Duration and %Completion for rendering them as Gantt. There are grave statistics available in project management literature about project failures due to breakdown in communication and with this visual in Power BI, it will be a thing of the past. Gantt charts in Power BI would also open up the communication with your team, stakeholders and partners effortlessly and keep them in sync. Power BI would become your compass to navigate your project ship to the success land. In Power BI as visuals interact with each other, you can look at your resource allocation, task completion, remaining tasks in different perspective and get a firm handle on the future. When you put Gantt chart along with other insightful charts in an interactive canvas, you can manage your project in whole new way. As a project manager, putting together a Gantt will take you half way through the project and the other half is the easy part.įor those of you, who are not Gantt literate, it’s a type of bar chart to illustrate a schedule with time axis. So every project plan begins with a Gantt chart. Managing projects successfully is not easy as any reasonable size project has lots of moving pieces & people. Project Managers and executives love Gantt charts, since they visually show in a very effective at-a-glance way, the overall time line of the project, the current status & progress (or lack thereof) along with the assignment at considerable details. Gantt charts are indispensable part of project management portfolio. 
By Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Mey Meenakshisundaram, Product Manager
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