Clickup Project Management Software - Including Gantt Charts FREE SOFTWARE

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

What Project Management Software - (Freeware) have you had success with for drawing up things like project timelines, tasks, team members, inputs, deadlines and the good graphics that people can click on to get a colourful overview? So far, YouTube bots are suggesting Clickup. What free software have you had experience with and would recommend?

Not sure whether to post this in Technical Chatter or Tools or the Parking Lot under Computer and IT. So, I figured General Chat might be a good all round site.

I have to prepare a timeline project management Gantt Chart type of thingo for a project Expression of Interest. Yep, 'thingo', just ultra professional am I not :0). Instead of reverting to a physical wall chart with the 1st of April to the end of September one month per page and heaps of sticky notes, I reckon I could get more advanced and use technology. Also, even after I developed the perfect hardcopy version I would still have to transfer it into an electronic version to distribute initially with the funder and then later when team members or collaborators come on board the project. There are four tasks in the project that do not interact with each other. The project has the same topic - just different streams or modes of it to provide different medias and content.

Yes - it does feature co-design too.

Kind regards
Lionel

[Tombie]

When in doubt, use excel and colour squares to make it work.

You can do this easily enough and make it automatic to an extent.

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[DieselDan]

I've been playing around with JIRA, which is mainly a software tool for agile type project management, IT software release type stuff.
JIRA is from Atlassian and you can sign up for free and use the cloud based version.
But I'm with Mike, you've got no overlapping dependency on the workstreams so I'd just be using excel.

[3toes]

I find excel can do a better job than many of the ‘professional’ software applications out there and people are quicker to become comfortable with it as they have a level of familiarity with it

You just need to invest a little time in constructing it and watching Utube videos of what others have done which you then apply to make something that is bespoke to your requirements

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

I followed some of the advice given on this thread and looked up using Excel as Gantt chart. I found this Australian clip accessed a while ago - okay latest visit 4th April 2024 How to Make the BEST Gantt Chart in Excel (looks like Microsoft Project!) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQpGzL_14g). I slavishly followed the step by step advice and then drifted down into the "More" section and found a link to pay for and download an already completed copy of the very same Excel file - plus 50 other completed project management items for $51. Guess what I wound up doing! Could have saved myself hours of replaying sections of the clip and tapping away at the keyboard. Well, I did get to learn about Excel formulas though. This happened when I tried to find out how some of the as if by magic with the press of a button happened on the YouTube clip.

Thank you for the suggestions of using Excel.

I found that concentrating on completing the Gantt chart first made it really easy to write up the supporting project summary.

Kind regards
Lionel

[Tombie]

Happy to read you found a solution. And you learned more in the process. Always a good thing!