GanttProject is

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-licensed (

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)

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based,

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that runs under the Microsoft Windows,

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and Apple

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operating systems. This project was initiated in January 2003, at University of Marne-la-Vallée (France) and managed, at first, by Alexandre Thomas, now replaced by Dmitry Barashev.

Features

Comparing to other full-fledged project management software, one could say that GanttProject is designed considering the

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. It features most basic project management functions like a

Gantt chart A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule, named after its popularizer, Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed such a chart around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationsh ...

for project scheduling of tasks, and doing

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using resource load charts. It can only handle days not hours. It does not have features like cash flow, message, document control, and resource leveling. It has a number of reporting options (Microsoft Project, HTML, PDF, spreadsheets). The major features include: * Create

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* Task Hierarchy and Dependencies *

Gantt Chart A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule, named after its popularizer, Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed such a chart around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationsh ...

* Resource Load Chart * Baselines saving and comparing * Generation of

PERT Chart The program evaluation and review technique (PERT) is a statistical tool used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project. First developed by the United States Navy in 1 ...

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and

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Reports *

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import/export with file format MPX (*.mpx) and MSPDI (*.xml) (XML-based data interchange format since Project 2002) * Exchange data with

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applications via CSV and Excel formats *

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based groupwork * Project file format is

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* Vacation and Holidays management * Available in more than 20 languages

Reception

* A number of mostly positive reviews on

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* Number of download: as of January 2014, there are 1,600,000 downloads of GanttProject 2.0.10 for Microsoft Windows from

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. Average daily download count is about 1,500. *

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reviewed GanttProject favorably. * As of June 2011, the number of weekly downloads of GanttProject (version 2.0.9) at

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was third among such programs: first was

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(version 1.4), second was JFreeChart. Note: Since GanttProject ver. 2.0.10 is no longer posted at SourceForge, this download ranking is not relevant. * User rating at CNET/Download is 3.5 stars (Microsoft Project is 4.0 stars).CNET Download GanttProject
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Gallery

Image:ganttproject-house-building-sample.png, Gantt chart view of HouseBuilding sample project opened in GanttProject 2.0.10 Image:ganttproject-resource-load-chart.png, Resource load chart view of HouseBuilding sample project opened in GanttProject 2.0.10 Image:Ganttproject-PERT chart.png, PERT chart view in ver. 2.0.10

Features

Reception

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