Project & Development

Gantt Chart for Beginners: Schedule Board to List Tasks and Draw Start Dates, End Dates, and Owners

Beginners learning how to make a Gantt chart use this schedule template to list the tasks of a small project and draw start dates, end dates, and owners as bars on a weekly timeline. The left page of the whiteboard has three WBS frames that split the work into prepare, produce, and publish, a four-column MoSCoW filter that narrows the rows, and a Gantt grid of 5 tasks across 6 weeks; the right page holds the goal and deadline, a five-step how-to, three frames on common mistakes and staying on track, the weekly update rules, and a three-column KPT. The task board has five columns, from listing tasks and setting dates to in progress, in review, and done, and starts with 4 parent tasks and 12 subtasks, all not started. A Gantt chart is a table with tasks down the side and weeks across the top, where each period is drawn as a bar. Putting every task on it makes a wall of bars, so narrow the rows with MoSCoW first.