[Gllug] gantt chart drawing program?

[Simon Wilcox]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> Do you share my housemate's view that a gantt chart is vital? If so, I
> guess for my basic needs I can draw one up in gnumeric or directly in
> LaTeX.

Some folks argue that you need gantt charts to manage projects but some of
the best project managers I've ever worked with do perfectly well with
paper and some todo lists.

It is very easy to get dragged into the detail of making it look pretty 
and forgetting about properly defining what tasks are required to complete 
the project.

Having said that, many people expect to see gantt charts and they can be 
quite useful for communicating the project timeline to people so you may 
as well resign yourself to joining the cargo cult and producing one.

I sometimes find the ability to link tasks together to see dependencies is
quite useful for getting the feel of a project but I rarely use project
tools to actually manage a project as they're just too cumbersome for the 
types of projects I work on.

Mr Project [1] looks nice, but you don't seem to be able to print yet 
which is a bit of a handicap :)

Freshmeat [2] suggests several too altough I've never used any of them.

You'll probably find that a spreadsheet with shaded cells does you just 
fine for presentation purposes, although it's a bit fiddly to update.

Simon.

[1] http://www.mrproject.org/
[2] http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=gantt&section=projects&x=11&y=13

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