🗂️ 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.

🎁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

Read the full article on Medium: https://medium.com/the-bi-corner/️-how-to-build-a-gantt-chart-in-power-bi-using-only-core-visuals-6d27e1e56d13