Project Management Application Based on the Gantt Chart

XB Software’s development team has created a full-featured custom web application for effective project management and in-team collaboration. The application offers different workspaces for managing multiple projects. Access to particular projects can be granted to team members responsible for specific activities. For effective project management, users can prioritize tasks, set dependencies between them, define durations, and change the current level of progress using the web application.

This web application for project management allows tracking of both personal and team productivity. Managers can set roles for team members, assign tasks to particular employees, monitor project progress, and track the contribution of each staff member. For more effective team collaboration, our developers have implemented a sharing feature that allows staff members to work alongside their colleagues.

An advanced resource planning system provides project managers with an easy-to-use mechanism for effective workload monitoring. You can set the cost per hour for a resource and the time spent working on a task. Using this info, the web application for efficient management can automatically calculate the approximate cost for a single task, group of tasks, or even the whole project.

The workload monitoring feature allows the company management to check if some of the employees are underperforming or have too many activities. In such a situation, this project management application will be able to reallocate particular staff members with a couple of clicks.

In the case of unexpected changes of dates for existing activities, there’s no need to make any changes manually. The Auto Scheduling function of this application can automatically recalculate what should be done and add the required changes. The Critical Path is another essential project management feature of this web app. It allows to highlight all the tasks that have the most significant impact on the overall time of the project.

One of the main concerns for company management is to achieve better collaboration between team members. Our web application lets users add comments to tasks and attach files (specifications, mockups, etc.) to them. The built-in notification system helps to keep staff members aware of recent changes. Also, charts can be exported to such formats as PDF, PNG, XLSX, and XML.

In order to speed up the development process and let our customer have a slick outcome of the solution, we added our ready-made JavaScript UI libraries and widgets (Webix and DHTMLX).

Thus, to improve the software usability, we implemented DHTMLX Gantt chart library, which became the key component of the solution. Considering that Gantt charts are popular in project management applications, the client was more than satisfied with this decision. The DHTMLX JavaScript Gantt chart allows users to move tasks, create new ones from scratch, and reorder columns in the grid with a simple drag-and-drop feature.

To let users store and share needed documents and media files they use in their projects, we integrated Webix JavaScript Document Manager. The feature was suitable for the clients, because they wanted to let their team have more control over the digital documents and improve the project management process by allowing them to group, sort out, and comment on the files.

Adding Webix JavaScript Report Manager also helped the client’s team to better manage their projects and have enhanced team collaboration, because they are now able to gather the required data and easily export it when needed.