Thursday, October 30, 2008
Project Management: Add a Gantt Chart to Your Google Spreadsheet
LifeHacker: "Schedule and keep track of a project over time with a Gantt chart from a spreadsheet created in Google Docs thanks to a gadget from Viewpath."
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This isn't happy on a Mac but I think this tool is pretty useful especially if you have to throw a GANTT chart together quickly for something small to get an idea of how things are going to elapse. I wonder too if doing this with Google Docs leaves open opportunities for customization that isn't reliable in MSProject.
From a post on Life Hacker, "Annoying gantt charts...telling me when I need to finish my projects..."
But that's what all calendars do. This seem nice for large projects. I will have to give it a trial some time. I would hope there are ways to put in more info that what their video shows. Otherwise, it is just some pretty bars with embedded formulas...
this would be a cool tool to use for project tracking. We learned about gantt charts last year and i couldn't think of an easy way to make a chart like this, but now here is a tool that is available to us if we wish to make a chart like this.
I checked this gadget out, and it makes a decent Gantt chart. The only problem is, you can't print it. That could be problematic if you want to share your Gantt chart with anybody, or hang it on your wall. However, this would be nice for personal reference use.
the problem I have with writely/google docs is that they're not really up to par with the office/enterprise standard. sure, free and easy to use is one thing, but incompatibility on some platforms and inability to do anything more than basic functions is really a discredit. when google docs took over writely, i thought about switching exclusively to using that as my word processor. same thing for spreadsheets. but i quickly realized that it's lack of powerful features made it pretty useless to me.
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