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SmartDraw makes it easy to add dates, tasks, and assign responsibilities. Your project chart will automatically generate the necessary bars based on the information you enter. You can easily add milestones and dependencies.
SmartDraw makes managing projects easier by letting you switch among different views of your project—the traditional Gantt chart view and a hierarchical view of all the tasks in a mind map view. This makes it easy to first brainstorm tasks in a meeting and then turn that brainstorm into actionable tasks for your team and manage deadlines.
To help manage even the largest of project charts, SmartDraw's floating toolbar lets you control the level of detail you see and helps you scroll through large charts.
With SmartDraw, you can group related tasks quickly using one-click controls and the length of the parent task will reflect the length of all the child tasks automatically.
You can control how days and holidays are displayed on your chart with just a few clicks. You can choose the time frame, holidays, and even choose which columns you want to display on your chart.
SmartDraw lets you assign tasks and track their progress using your Gantt chart, but you can also quickly convert any task into a card on your team's Trello® board with SmartDraw's powerful Trello integration. Changes to the Trello® cards are reflected in your project chart the next time you open it. So when a team member marks a Trello® card as complete, the project manager will see this in the SmartDraw project chart. Likewise, changes to the project chart, like task due dates, are reflected in the Trello® card in real time.
SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add your project chart to:
SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your project charts directly to:
There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.
Need to share your project chart with clients? You can easy export your construction plan as a PDF or PNG or insert it into any Office® or Google Workspace™ application in just a few clicks.
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Collaborate on projects with ease with the help of SmartDraw. You and your team can work on the same project chart using a shared folder. You can also share your project by emailing anyone a link. Your team can leave comments and feedback.
You can also add other visuals to the same workspace that can help brainstorm ideas or discuss strategic decision with stakeholders. Import JIra issues, add sticky notes, and more.
To build any project chart, start by brainstorming tasks and turn that mind map into a list of tasks with due dates, automatically. Add or remove tasks, change start or end dates, and SmartDraw realigns and arranges all the task bars so that everything continues looks great.
Check out these project chart examples and templates in SmartDraw. You can customize these if you want or you can make your own easily from scratch using the powerful tools provided.
Discover why SmartDraw is the ideal project chart maker.