Gantt Chart

Gantt chart vs kanban explained. Learn the difference between a Gantt chart and a Kanban board, with examples, best uses, and common mistakes.

If you have ever run a project off a list of tasks in a notes app, you already know how it usually goes. Everything looks fine on day one. Then a few items take longer than expected, someone waits on an approval, and suddenly you are asking, "How did we get behind so fast?" That is the problem a Gantt chart is built to solve. A Gantt chart is a visual project timeline that shows tasks on a calendar. Each task is drawn as a horizontal bar. The bar starts on the task’s start da