Gantt charts and project management

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-08-24 19:27:21

To move this to its own thread.

I have downloaded Milestones simplicity 2004 and it seems to offer no way of importing data either directly or through the clipboard.

It offers a nice range of options for custom drawing Gantt charts, but no project management tools.

JCVGantt used as a stand alone program or as a MindManager addin, offers more project management tools, but very limited graphics tools to make customised gantt charts. However, version 2 of JCVGantt is out next month, but I have no idea of features.

Concept Draw offers similar tools to Milestones simplicity, and in some ways is more advanced, but the Gantt feature is broken. Smart Draw offers Gantt charts, but in fact all they provide are time line symbols that you place inside a table to create your chart - no links to dates.

The Gantt project http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/index.php seems to offer a free full blown project management tool, but this is over the top for what I want.

I think I am going to go with JCVGantt, and hope that v2 offers a bit more flexibility in presentation.

I do like MindManager for throwing projects together, and the link in one direction to JCVGantt give some simple project management tools, and the link in the other direction moves dates and tasks into Outlook. Mind Manager also gives me a route to move a Brainstorm model into a Gantt chart.

Unless anyone has suggestions for another low cost simple project management/gantt chart program.

Graham

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