{"id":5076,"date":"2018-04-01T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:48:36","slug":"timeline-gantt-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/timeline-gantt-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline vs. Gantt Chart quick guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you are managing a project, you need a graphical view of your work&#8217;s tasks and their progression in chronological order. What you need is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/introduction-gantt-chart-software\/\">Gantt chart<\/a> or as some people call it the Timeline.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So what is the difference between a Gantt Chart vs. timeline? the short answer, nothing! they are the same type of graph used to show tasks over time, just different\u00a0names.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Throughout this article, we will refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this type of graph<\/a> as the timeline\u00a0rather than the Gantt Chart.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Just a side note, the timeline in software engineering has a long history and was used extensively until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/agile-project-management-tutorial\/\">Agile method<\/a> gained popularity.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By the way, this article is not about why people call the Gantt chart a timeline, but about how to use this type of graph for managing your projects better.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0[clickToTweet tweet=&#8221;Timeline or Gantt Chart is a great tool to view the status of your projects #startups #projectmanagement&#8221; quote=&#8221; Regardless of which project management methodology like Agile or waterfall you are using, Timelines help you plan and share project status better.&#8221; theme=&#8221;style5&#8243;]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Timeline and its benefits<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Each project is consists of many tasks, events, and milestones. A timeline graph is a fantastic tool to show all these elements over time and how they are related to each other in a simple graph.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The timeline or a Gantt Chart shows graphically the start and the\u00a0end time each task in a horizontal bar which is shown over a span of time like days, weeks, or months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This graphical\u00a0view clearly shows the relative position of each task, event, or milestones relative to other tasks and events in the project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/project-management-software-demo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5569\" src=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Demo-Ad.png\" alt=\"work management software demo\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Demo-Ad.png 957w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Demo-Ad-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Demo-Ad-768x360.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Complexity<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The graph clearly shows the complexity of the project. This is valuable information for all project stakeholders.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">As projects get bigger, they tend to become more complex and harder to plan and manage. For this reason, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/why-projects-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">majority of large projects end up finishing late<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Helps with Planning<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Project planning for large projects is very time-consuming. A timeline helps to view the plan and find mistakes or issues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Everything that needs to be done in the\u00a0project is viewable in one simple graph.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For example, consider resource planning. The project needs to be planned in such a way that not to strain the resources in the project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By resources, I mean workers, equipment, and facilities. In large projects, there are hundreds of tasks if not thousands that need to be scheduled.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By viewing the chart and considering the available resources, the team can decide on how to scatter tasks overtime to make sure each task gets the resources it needs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The timeline graph helps to visualize resource loading and to take action to balance it if needed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By looking at the graph it becomes immediately\u00a0obvious who has been assigned too many tasks in any day, week, or month and who has free time to spare.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Dependency Rules<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The timeline graph makes it easy to visualize dependencies in the project.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you are not familiar with dependency, it simply means in order to start working on a task, there might be other tasks that need to be finished before we can start working on this task.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">As an example of the dependency rule, assume you are building a house. Before you can start installing doors and windows, you need to finish the wall first.\u00a0 No wall, there is nothing to place doors and windows.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the timeline, dependencies are shown by an arrow originating\u00a0from the due date of one task to the starting date of the dependent task.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This visualization tool is very powerful and helps everybody in the team to know when and in what order they need to work on tasks in the project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Critical path identification\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The critical path is the longest path from the\u00a0start of the project to the finish date. The timeline chart can easily identify the critical path in a project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">All tasks on the critical path should be paid special attention to. A delay in any one of these tasks means a delay in the project&#8217;s finish date.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For this reason, experienced project managers keep a close eye on the tasks on the critical path.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>View Tasks and Subtasks<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In good timeline graphs like Binfire, you can click on the parent task and see all its subtasks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The tasks and subtasks are color-coded. So you can easily differentiate between tasks and subtasks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In addition, the application uses the subtask&#8217;s due date and start date to set the parent&#8217;s start and due dates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In some applications which have a false understanding of proper project management, parent tasks and their subtasks are totally independent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">That is absurd, you can&#8217;t have a subtask with start or finish dates before its parent. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Binfire enforces these rules automatically to free you to do finish your project and not manually adjust the project plan.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Sharing Project Status<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It is important to make the status of the project known to all its stakeholders. There is no better tool to do that than the timeline graph.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Everybody from the senior executives to team members can access the graph to view the status of the project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you have an online timeline graph, then that is fantastic. If not print the graph and place it someplace that everybody can see it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Better Scheduling<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> Timeline is a huge help in scheduling a project.\u00a0 It lets you prepare all items\/requirements needed for a task before it starts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Shortcoming of Timeline<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Like anything good in life, there are sometimes shortcomings too. The following is a list of issues with the timeline graph.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Inaccurate or dated Data<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The biggest issue with the timeline is that what you see on the graph is only as accurate as the data entered into the system by people who work on the project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This is a big problem because the data needs to be imported into the system manually. So there is a delay as of when the data is gathered and entered as to when the system is updated and available to everyone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the old days, the gap between the real status of the project and what was shown in the timeline graph made the graph totally wrong.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Nowadays, with the advance of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/best-online-project-management-software\/\">online project management<\/a> applications, everybody can input his\/her data to the system in real-time, this error gap is shrinking.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But even with online PM tools, the timeline needs constantly to be updated to be viable.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Does not show work<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Another issue with Timeline is the fact that the bar in the graph only shows when a task should start and end. It does not show the amount of work needed to finish that task.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To understand this problem, consider this. Is it 24 man-hours of work that needs to be finished in 8 hours? or 4 man-hours of work which has 8 calendar hours to finish?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">DO you see the issue? The bar in the graph only shows how long a task\u00a0is scheduled to take but does not show how much work it takes to start and finish the project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Information overload<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For large and complex projects, it is impossible to show all the project&#8217;s activity on one page. It requires the user to zoom in and out constantly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">As the project grows bigger, the timeline gets more complex and harder to read and digest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Timeline vs. Gantt chart is used a lot in search queries, but they are the same. Gantt charts are a great presentation of the project&#8217;s data plotted against time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are managing a project, you need a graphical view of your work&#8217;s tasks and their progression in chronological order. 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