Hello,

I have yet to gain industry experience, but I do have experience in creating Gantt charts for my Capstone class. A good practice is to start off by documenting what the purpose of the Gantt chart is and then going from there. Your bullet points basically hit the nail on the head on what constitutes a proper Gantt chart. It’s nice to add milestone markers that highlights important tasks that absolutely need to be finished before moving forward with the project during a certain time frame. Also, it can be helpful to color code the bars of different tasks within the project based on their status {planned, released, in progress, finished, or delayed).