{"id":987,"date":"2022-03-16T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:50:24","slug":"dawn-of-the-3d-gantt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of the 3D Gantt Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My company has been in R&amp;D mode for several years now, and one area of focus has been to try to<strong> reinvent and improve the Gantt Chart<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gantt charts use the Y-axis to display the WBS and the X-axis to show the timeline.\u00a0 The data date (or status date) is rendered as a vertical line in the chart, the single point in time when the schedule was last updated.  So we asked: <strong><em>What if you could literally drag that data date line forward and back in time and see the Gantt update in real-time?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Adding &#8220;point in time&#8221; as a third dimension, what could you do with a 3D Gantt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It continues to surprise us how useful this feature is for understanding how the changes in an update period impacted the schedule.\u00a0 The latest release of the tool shows where we&#8217;re at with this project, and <strong>we made a video that demonstrates how the 3D Gantt works<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steelray Delay Analyzer 0.14 - What&#039;s New\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNyxpE849Gw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But we need some help &#8212;<strong> we need people to try it out<\/strong> and tell us what they think.\u00a0 If you use P6 and have two or more XER exports at different points in time, and if you&#8217;re interested in trying it out on your schedules, we are in the last few weeks of our early access program.\u00a0 Visit this page and let us know if you&#8217;re interested in trying it out: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelray.com\/DelayAnalyzerP6\/DelayAnalyzerP6.php\">https:\/\/steelray.com\/DelayAnalyzerP6\/DelayAnalyzerP6.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My company has been in R&amp;D mode for several years now, and one area of focus has been to try to reinvent and improve the Gantt Chart.\u00a0 Gantt charts use the Y-axis to display the WBS and the X-axis to show the timeline.\u00a0 The data date (or status date) is rendered as a vertical line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analyzers","category-delay-analysis","category-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}