Gantt chart

A Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications.
Henry Gantt, inventor of the Gantt chart

A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule.[1] It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt around the years 1910–1915.[2][3] Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status.

  1. ^ Project Management Institute 2021, Glossary §3 Definitions.
  2. ^ Gantt 1910.
  3. ^ Morris 1997, p. 7.