Project Planner Gantt View

The Project Planner also includes a Gantt chart that makes it easy to visualize the timelines in your project and examine how different planning resources are utilized over time.

To access this view, click Gantt at the bottom of the Project Planner.

• Use the Gantt Type drop-down list on the control panel to specify what to display:

• • Project Plan shows timelines for gates and actions.

  • Personnel Utilization and Facility Utilization show the utilizations for the person responsible, team and/or facilities. (See Project Planning Resources.)

• In the Gantt Display area, select the part of the plan you want to view in the Filter drop-down list. For example you could view a specific gate (and its dependents) or a specific user (and all their utilizations). If you want to change the widths of columns that contain dates, use the Fit Mode.

• In the Date Selections area:

• • Select to view the entire plan or focus only on a specific date range.

  • Specify whether each column represents a specific number of Days, or Other increments such as weeks, months, quarters, etc.

• In the Date Display area:

• • If each column represents a single day, select whether to display Non-Working Days. If displayed, those columns will have a gray background. (See Working Days/Holidays.)

  • Use Show Planned, Show Expected and Show Actual to specify which timeline bars will be displayed.

  • • To specify the colors that will be used in both the project plan Gantt chart and the timeline plot, choose View > Settings > Set Colors. (See Set Colors for Project Planner.)

  • For the planned and actual timeline bars in the project plan chart, you can also choose whether to Show Percent Completed.

• If you are using one of the utilization charts and the date columns each represent more than a single day, use the Calculate Utilization As area to specify how to calculate the utilization. This can be:

• • The Max (highest) daily utilization among all days in the interval. For example, if the interval is 3 days and the utilizations were 15%, 0% and 10%, the max will be 15%.

  • The Average across only the days in the interval that have utilizations. For example, if the interval is 5 days but the resource was only utilized on 3 of those days, the average will be the total utilization/3 days.

  • The Overall Average across all working days in the interval. For example, if the interval is 5 working days, the overall average will be the total utilization/5 days even if the resource was not utilized every day.