Gantt Charts

There are different ways of making Gantt charts, but the basic idea is to show all the tasks you need to do by the deadline and plan how much time each one will take. Excel is good software to use for a Gantt chart because it starts off as a table format and it allows dates to be entered quickly and efficiently. You should include

• milestones - these are big steps on the way to the goal with target dates


• resources - what things (hardware, software and other stuff) you will need for each step.

Here is an example - but you can do better!

It is hard to show the resources on the same sheet of paper. You may wish to copy your final task list onto another worksheet and show the resources needed on a separate page.