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MENTAL MODEL · M3620

Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-28

CORE DEFINITION

A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt c. 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status.

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A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt c. 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status.

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A Gantt chart uses horizontal bars to represent the start, end, and progress of tasks on a timeline, visually displaying scheduling, dependencies, and parallelism. It was introduced by Henry Gantt in the 1910s.

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