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Serious question that sounds like a sarcastic quip: does anyone actually use Gantt charts, or are they one of those things people say they need and then ignore forever once the programmer has put them in?

I'm seriously curious. They seem so useful, and then whenever I've had an app that had them in it, I never used it. Wondering if that's just me. :)

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We use them to manage all of the planning for freight car classification and switching in our train yards - I think we use the ILOG embedded Gantt chart in a .NET application.

MS Project is also very, very popular in businesses - project managers seem to love to graphically see dependencies (even if it's subject to garbage-in/garbage-out).

I am going to try using this for an employee scheduling tool I'm working on. It's nice to see everyone's shifts all at once, to see which shifts overlap, how many people are working at 2pm, etc.

That's one reason I've developed TeamWork.io http://teamwork.io/

While gantts have their place, for most projects they do not add a lot of value.

I get a 403 error: Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Which url gave you that?

Yes I do, as a high level tool for quickly identifying scope and impact. I have normally worked with enterprise (bulk funded) clients using waterfall process however, so it makes sense in that context. I'm not sure how relevant it would be using different management styles.

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