The standard for project management

Bar charts.

 Also known as Gantt charts, bar charts represent schedule information where activities are listed 

on the vertical axis, dates are shown on the horizontal axis, and activity durations are shown as horizontal 

bars placed according to start and finish dates. Bar charts are relatively easy to read and are commonly used. 

Depending on the audience, float can be depicted or not. For control and management communications, the 

broader, more comprehensive summary activity is used between milestones or across multiple interdependent 

work packages and is displayed in bar chart reports. An example is the summary schedule portion of Figure 6-21 

that is presented in a WBS-structured format.

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