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This week, I found a product that will help you organize your thoughts and make your life and job more seamless. Let’s look at a “project scheduling and management tool” called GanttProject, which is another project brought to us by Sourceforge.

After you download and open GanttProject, a box will appear with various tutorials to help you get started. You can close that box at any time, or you can read through however many of them there are. I could not find any good videos in English on GanttProject; but if you speak French, I think I saw some videos in French. They do provide this slideshow to help you get started though.

Since there aren’t any good videos in English, I am going to bullet point what you can expect and where to go. I provided you with some screen shots to make it easier to follow along.

Resources

1. In the main window, there are two tabs. When you open GanttProject, it will open to the Gantt tab. Click on the resources tab.
2. Right Click in the left window > Select New Resource > Fill out information.
3. To edit information right click in the added resources name > select human properties.
4. In side of human properties, to select days off you must click ‘Add.’
5. To send an e-mail, right click > select ‘send e-mail’

Task Properties

1. To get to the screen you see pictured > click the right arrow below ‘Resources’ > A new task will appear.
2. Right click task > Select ‘Task Properties’ (Give the project a name, change the dates that you have to work on it, etc)
3. Right click above your new task property (on Name/Begin Date/End Date) > you can add or delete categories.
4. Right click the calendar section > select chart options (Change the calendar’s look and feel)

Now, let’s look at the menu bar and see what you can do with GanttProject.

Settings

1. Edit > Settingsa. FTP > Here you can set up access so that other members of your team have access to your Gantt Project.b.Resource Role > If you want to change the possible titles in GanttProject main window’s Resource tab, you can do so here.c. Languages > For those who don’t speak English, they can change their default language here.d. Project > Here, you can set up basic information about the project, such as a default Web site that is associated with the site.

Project

1. Export: Export as a JPEG, PNG, HTML, or other type of file.
2. Import from either a Txt file or a Microsoft project file.
3. Web server > Save to a server. This will allow you to save it as an XML file.

Other Notable Features

1. View > PERT chart (If you want to view your project as a PERT chart)
2. Resources > Import resources (As any type of file)