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🗂️ How to Build a Gantt Chart in Power BI (Using Only Core Visuals!)

A step-by-step guide to building interactive project timelines in Power BI using bar and column charts.


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🎁PBIX available at the end of this article!


Introduction

Gantt charts are key visuals in project management, but Power BI doesn’t provide a native visual to easily display projects or tasks over a selected time period. And of course, I had to build one recently — so yeah, I needed to figure out an effective workaround 😅.

In my case, the Gantt chart needed to:

  • Show tasks and their statuses (Not Started, Delayed, Pending, In Progress, Completed)

  • Allow dynamic project selection via a slicer

  • Display today’s date with a reference line


You can view a quick demo of what the final Gantt chart looks like in action 📽️.


I achieved this by overlaying and syncing two native Power BI visuals:

  • A bar chart to display project tasks and their durations

  • A column chart to visualize the project timeline


 
 
 
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