A project manager needs a visual schedule that lists each activity on the vertical axis and places horizontal bars across a calendar-style time scale to indicate when every task starts and finishes. The same chart must also reveal which activities are dependent on others, so the manager can see at a glance which tasks can overlap and which must wait for predecessors to complete. Which type of chart should the project manager create?
A Gantt chart displays project tasks against a timeline, showing their start and end dates, durations, and any dependencies between tasks. This makes it ideal for monitoring schedule progress and coordinating resources. Milestone charts focus only on significant events, so they do not convey task durations or dependencies. Budget burndown charts track how quickly funds are consumed over time. PERT charts arrange activities in a network diagram, emphasizing task sequences and durations but without a linear calendar axis.
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