Gantt Chart vs Kanban: What Should You Use for Your Project?

There are many different ways to manage a project. But is viewing your tasks in a Gantt chart better than a Kanban board?

In this video, Scot Friesen compares both of these popular project management techniques and highlights the pros and cons. Whether you are planning a personal project or managing an entire team, find out if a Gantt chart or Kanban board is right for you.

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Scott Friesen is a productivity specialist and founder of Simpletivity training and consulting. He is also a prolific public speaker, workshop leader, and time management coach.

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[Simpletivity]

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[rubenmiller]

I have used Personal Kanban for almost two years with Restya. I find it valuable for keeping focus on the most important tasks and being realistic about what I can accomplish.

[rlfranklin]

Definitely Gantt for the projects I am on.

[Elena-civg]

I use both, but Gantt charts offer more options to collaborate, track team's workflow and manage workload. That's really useful.

[marinailyushchits]

I use Gantt Chart view, as it's clearer for me. Thank you for the video!

[MONZ]

I'll use Gantt Chart for now. But I'll also keep in mind using Kanban for simplier individual projects that requires few team members and can be accomplished in a short period of time 'coz it's easier to use. Thanks! 😊

[АндрейСтепанов-щь]

Thank you for this review. GanttPRO seems to be a powerful Gantt chart solution mixed with Kanban functionality. In general, Gantt charts are great for tasks, resources, and progress tracking. A timeline in Gantt chart software gives a clear understanding of what is going on in my project. Kanban is also a robust solution but mostly for work in progress that's why I like Trello. Hovewer, a mix of solutions as in GanttPRO should be something powerful for project management.

[DmitryDudinNedudi]

From my point of view, Gantt charts are definitely better for such industries as construction, event management, marketing and digital agencies where you have to push people to work on their tasks somehow :D.
Kanban is more for people who enjoy their jobs and feel personal responsibility to work on tasks they assigned.

[GreenieGamer]

Is it possible to use both? Kanban to split it into smaller tasks and Gantt for a longsight schedule during the project.

[screamhousegames]

Can you zoom into the Gantt chart by hours instead of days or weeks? I’d like to use it to manage hourly tasks. Is this possible?

[vanessachan]

I'm curious to see your review of Elegantt, a Chrome extension that makes your Trello board a Gantt chart.

[MarkMayhew]

He shows Gannt firat, and spends more time on it, and the video is sponsored by GanntPro! Favoritism much?!

[ehsan]

Hi, I wonder do you use GTD system? what do you like or don't like about GTD and if you don't use GTD what system do you use to organize your tasks?

[IAMDIMITRI]

Gantt chart = Linear progression through the project with parallel threads.
Kanban = parallel tasks

[Angela-uqcs]

Great information but Kanban is pronounced KonBon, not CanBan.