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3 Tips on Creating a reporting engine for your Excel Gantt Chart

Posted by Marcus Shane on Thursday, January 24, 2013, In : Gantt Chart Excel

Many users start building their excel gantt charts using conditional formatting as shown on a range of videos on youtube etc.

One of the key issues with this approach is that they tend to use the gantt chart as both an input and a reporting engine. Ie. The user inputs tasks, resources and dates, and the system just outputs a project plan or gantt chart.

There are three primary reports that should be a key function of any gantt chart, whether created in excel or a proprietary planning package....
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The Making of Chart Gantt Ultimate

Posted by Marcus Shane on Wednesday, August 4, 2010, In : ChartGantt Ultimate

The features discussed below are only available in Chart Gantt Ultimate, to be released in August 2010

We set ourselves the ambitious task of re-creating standard functionality in major project planning software tools. One of the main challenges in building an excel based gantt chart is the use of WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). There are a number of issues with the use of WBS in excel.

Whilst we have seen other excel based tools that attempt to offer WBS, they do this via a combination of m...
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