IT Gantt View
Visual Planning for Capacity Planning

A Gantt view for IT teams is a powerful visual planning tool that displays projects, milestones, and resource allocations on a timeline, enabling IT Directors to see the chronological flow of work across their entire organization. The Gantt view shows projects as horizontal bars positioned along a time axis, with the length of each bar representing the project duration, milestones as distinct markers indicating key dates and deliverables, resource allocations showing who is working on what and when, and dependencies between projects and tasks that help understand sequencing requirements. This visual representation is invaluable because it allows IT Directors to quickly identify overlaps where multiple projects compete for the same resources during the same time period, detect scheduling conflicts before they become problems, understand the overall capacity landscape at a glance, and make informed decisions about project prioritization and resource allocation. The Gantt view in Workload is specifically designed for capacity planning, meaning it's not just a project timeline but a comprehensive view that shows how capacity is being utilized across all projects, making it easy to see when teams are overloaded, when capacity is available, and how different projects interact with each other. This capability transforms capacity planning from a reactive exercise into a proactive strategic activity.

Yes, absolutely. In Workload, the Gantt view is directly connected to real capacity data, making it a true capacity planning tool rather than just a project timeline. The view is dynamically linked to available capacity calculations that account for team member availability, leave schedules, and current allocations, planned loads showing how much capacity is already committed to projects, allocation conflicts highlighting when resources are over-allocated or double-booked, and real-time updates that reflect changes as they occur. This connection means that when you view a project in the Gantt chart, you're seeing not just when it's scheduled, but also whether you actually have the capacity to deliver it. The system automatically calculates capacity constraints and displays them visually, so you can immediately see if a project timeline is realistic given your available resources. This real capacity linkage is what makes Workload's Gantt view different from traditional project management tools, which often show timelines without considering actual resource availability. In Workload, the Gantt view is a capacity planning tool first, ensuring that your project schedules are always grounded in reality.

Yes, Workload's Gantt view provides comprehensive filtering capabilities that allow you to focus on exactly the scope that interests you. You can filter by team to see only projects and allocations for specific teams, making it easy to understand team-level capacity and workload, by portfolio to view projects grouped by strategic initiative or business unit, by project type to focus on specific categories like regulatory projects, infrastructure initiatives, or application development, by key member to see all projects and allocations involving specific team members, and by time period to zoom in on specific quarters, months, or weeks. These filters can be combined, so you could, for example, view all regulatory projects for the Finance team in Q2, giving you a highly focused view of exactly what you need to see. The filtering system is designed to be intuitive and fast, allowing you to quickly switch between different views without losing context. This flexibility is essential for IT Directors who need to analyze capacity from multiple perspectives: sometimes focusing on individual teams, sometimes on specific project types, and sometimes on overall organizational capacity.

No, the Gantt view in Workload does not replace project management tools. Instead, it complements them by providing a capacity-focused perspective that traditional project management tools typically lack. Workload integrates with your existing project management tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and others, pulling project data from these systems to build a capacity planning Gantt view that shows how projects relate to your actual resource capacity. This integration approach means you can continue using your preferred project management tools for detailed task management, issue tracking, and project execution, while using Workload's Gantt view for strategic capacity planning and resource allocation. The two systems work together: your project management tools handle the detailed project work, while Workload focuses on the capacity planning aspects, ensuring that your project schedules are realistic and that you have the resources needed to deliver. This complementary relationship means you get the best of both worlds: detailed project management from your existing tools, and strategic capacity planning from Workload, without having to choose between them or duplicate work across multiple systems.