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How to Make a Gantt Chart in PowerPoint

Whether you manage a project or are just involved in its implementation, you might have probably heard about or used a Gantt chart, a bar chart that visually represents a project. A Gantt chart is usually applied in project management for task scheduling, identifying milestones, keeping track of progress and deadlines, and other similar purposes.…

Best Construction Scheduling Software in 2025 [Including Online, Free, Open Source, and Mac-focused Solutions]

Construction scheduling software helps to deal with big, complex, and often unruly projects. It assists in planning activities, managing multiple teams, regulatory issues, equipment rentals, safety concerns, and more. Why is it important? According to the Global Forecast for Construction to 2030 composed by Marsh and Guy Carpenter and written with Oxford Economics (2021), global…

Best Planners for Project Managers to Help Become the Master of Planning in 2025

Whether your project is simple or complex, small or big, it needs to be planned. Best planners for project managers are what facilitate efforts in this area and help to start your activities in the right manner. Through the years many types of different work planners have been designed. Let's just recall school notebooks or…

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Word

To make a Gantt chart people usually resort to different tools. Among them, for instance, are popular Microsoft tools. We have already explained how to create a Gantt chart in Excel, MS Project, Google Sheets, and PowerPoint in our previous articles. However, it may be the case that you are used to working in Word…

How to Work with Task and Project Budget with GanttPRO: Manual Budget Entry & Currency

For years, GanttPRO has offered powerful features for working with task costs. Their calculations were completely automatic. It meant that costs were based on preset resource values. We’ve updated this feature for even more robust budget planning and tracking. In this release, we introduce manual budget entry and features to select its currency and number…

How to Plan and Manage Project and Resource Calendars with GanttPRO: 30-Minute Intervals

Project planning and workload management in GanttPRO will become more flexible and convenient for you. With this release, we introduce a 30-minute step in project and resource calendars. Previously, the Gantt chart software allowed setting only 1 hour as the minimum value in both cases, which some teams found quite unusual to work with. Project…

How to Manage Projects with GanttPRO: Calendar View

We continue to introduce you to new great benefits of using GanttPRO. This time, we are announcing a calendar view, a new way to visualize tasks that will help you plan and schedule your activities and even manage your resources. Let’s dive deeper into this release. Introducing the calendar view. How you benefit from using…

How to Precisely Track Time Spent on Tasks with GanttPRO: Timer in the Mobile App

From now on, you will be able to track time spent on tasks on the go with a timer that is available on all GanttPRO plans. Time tracking in real time The ability to track time using a timer has been one of the main requests from mobile app users. This is not surprising as…

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