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Using an online Gantt chart software like Backlog allows teams to schedule software development tasks far more effectively. Gantt charts are extremely popular tools, and for a good reason: they make complex projects easier to understand.

Gantt charts map all the small tasks that make up a project to a comprehensive schedule, building alignment and ensuring everyone understands what has to get done and by when. In Backlog, teams can use Gantt charts to view who is responsible for each task and stay updated on the status of tasks. This empowers individual contributors as well as project managers to quickly determine progress, understand task dependencies, and identify potential bottlenecks before they become major issues.

Unlike Gantt charts created manually in spreadsheets, Backlog's Gantt charts update in real-time as team members complete tasks, ensuring everyone is always up-to-date on the latest status of software development projects. Together, these features help thousands of software development teams around the world schedule and complete tasks more efficiently than ever.

Yes. Understanding task dependencies is a key ingredient to the success of any complex project, ensuring an efficient approach with everyone working together closely as a team.

Using a Gantt chart maker like Backlog or Cacoo provides teams with a highly effective way to manage task dependencies. Both Gantt chart makers offer teams a visual way to understand the order of tasks, clearly displaying which tasks must be completed before others can be started. The individuals assigned to each task are also shown in the Gantt chart, helping teams ensure everyone has the resources they need to keep the project on track.

Backlog is best used for managing active projects with live tasks and dependencies, while Cacoo is most suited to the planning stage, allowing multiple stakeholders to contribute to the project plan. Used together, they give teams an end-to-end solution to plan and execute complex projects with multiple dependencies.

Backlog isn't just a Gantt chart software: it's a comprehensive project management solution that serves as a hub for your team's work. As long as you're on a Standard plan or higher, your team's Gantt charts are automatically created in Backlog based on your team's existing tasks and stay updated in real-time as your team completes their work and updates Backlog.

Teams can click on any task to access more information when viewing their Backlog Gantt chart. Every task contains information, including the assignee, due date, priority level, and a description. Users can add comments, files, and links to share their work as they work on the task. Team members can exchange comments, re-assign tasks, and more, all within a few clicks of the Gantt chart display.

All project work, and by extension, the corresponding Gantt chart, is kept up to date in real-time as teams complete their work. Backlog displays both team and personal Gantt charts, helping project managers understand what their team is working on and assign tasks more effectively.

Backlog and Cacoo are perfect solutions for remote design teams, enabling live and asynchronous collaboration that helps teams work together more closely.

In Backlog, team members can assign tasks, comment on tasks, and review designs together in dedicated issues. The visual Gantt chart interface allows teams to understand who is working on what and ensures every team member has the resources they need to be successful.

Cacoo is a solution tailor-made for remote design teams. Teammates can view the same diagram together in real-time, watching each other's cursors and exchanging ideas and feedback through a built-in messaging thread. There are also version history tools that help designers understand who changed what and when, plus a whole host of ways to share Gantt charts and other designs.

Both Backlog and Cacoo offer project managers significant value, giving them the organizational and visual tools they need to ensure their projects are a resounding success.

In Backlog, Gantt charts give project managers a real-time visual overview of the status of their projects. Project managers can use these Gantt charts to ensure their team has adequate resources, identify any potential delays, and quantify the progress of their project compared to the initial schedule.

Backlog's Gantt charts can also be shared with leaders and other important stakeholders, providing a simple visual update on the progress of projects. Project managers can also view individual Gantt charts for every member of their team, using these to better allocate work in line with each team member's capacity.

Cacoo's Gantt chart functionality is extremely valuable in helping project managers collaborate with team members and other leaders to plan project timelines. Multiple people can work on a Gantt chart concurrently in Cacoo, creating a project schedule with the support of every stakeholder involved in the process.

While the Backlog Gantt chart evolves as the project progresses, Cacoo Gantt charts serve as the record of the original plan the project manager committed to at the project's outset.

Yes – and it's one of Cacoo's most-loved attributes. Cacoo offers a number of features that allow team members to collaborate in real-time on design projects, including:

• Multi-user editing: Multiple team members can work together on the same diagram in real-time.
• Live cursor: Users can watch their teammates work and understand which areas of the Gantt chart they're working on with a color-coded live cursor.
• Chat: Teams can communicate easily with a dedicated chat for every single Cacoo diagram.
• Video calling: Cacoo users can initiate a video call directly from their Cacoo Gantt chart, starting a call with their teammates to discuss their Gantt chart live.
• Comments and sticky notes: Team members can add comments to specific elements of their Gantt chart, tagging teammates for review. Alternatively, users can add sticky notes to their diagrams.
• Revision history: See how your team's Gantt chart has evolved and revert to previous versions with Cacoo's revision history.

Together, these features make Cacoo a hub for collaborative creativity, whether for creating a project Gantt chart or other design tasks, such as wireframing or flowcharts.

Backlog and Cacoo are both widely used: over 2 million people worldwide use Nulab products to better manage their projects. Our tools are closely integrated and support collaboration at every project stage, from sketching out initial project schedule Gantt charts in Cacoo to tracking the completion of important deliverables in Backlog.

Our reviews on independent review platforms back up our reputation for reliability. On Capterra, Backlog and Cacoo receive an average user rating of 4.5 or higher / 5.

Read our Customer Stories to learn more about how innovative teams all over the world use Backlog and Cacoo to track project progress.

Both Backlog and Cacoo offer users several ways to customize the appearance of their Gantt chart.

In Backlog, users can create custom project status levels and easily update tasks as work progresses. Both personal and team Gantt charts are automatically created, allowing users to understand their progress on both an individual and joint level. Plus, users can create and save Gantt chart filters to find the information they're looking for faster.

Cacoo is entirely customizable. Teams can add unique elements to their Gantt chart, upload their own images, and customize colors, fonts, and more to match their business's branding. The only limit to customization in Cacoo is your own imagination.

In Backlog, there's no need to set up a Gantt chart: the platform automatically does it for you based on the start and end dates you assign to tasks when you set up the project.

Cacoo, on the other hand, comes with dozens of different templates that users can use to create diagrams. Among those is our Gantt chart template, as well as variations, including the Gantt Chart by Week template and the Gantt Chart Road Map template.

At Nulab, we take data privacy seriously. Both Backlog and Cacoo come with enterprise-grade security features. Our servers are located in a secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance and security, and both Backlog and Cacoo use HTTPS to encrypt user data with SSL.

If you're looking for an additional layer of security to protect your data, consider Nulab Pass: a security solution that protects your organization's Backlog and Cacoo accounts with SAML sign-on (SSO), audit logs, user provisioning, and more.

Absolutely. Both Backlog and Cacoo offer teams a variety of ways to share Gantt charts with users who do not have an active account on either platform.

In Backlog, users can download their current Gantt chart as an Excel file. Alternatively, users can create a shareable URL to send to stakeholders.

In Cacoo, users can export their Gantt chart in a variety of formats, including PNG, SVG, PDF, and more. Cacoo also allows users to embed their Gantt charts in external web properties or to create a shareable URL that invites external users to view and edit the Gantt chart.

It certainly can. The Gantt chart maker in Cacoo is perfectly suited to visualizing timelines in design processes, giving teams the flexibility and creative power to distill complex timelines into beautiful visual schedules that design teams will love.

During the process, as deadlines shift and expectations change, teams can update their Cacoo Gantt chart to better demonstrate the current progress of their design projects, ensuring everyone is aligned on key dates and deliverables.

Creating a firm timeline before work begins is an important part of any creative project, setting expectations on when certain milestones must be completed.

Creating a Gantt chart in Cacoo is an excellent way for designers to keep track of the critical deadlines and deliverables in their creative projects. Designers can create a visually appealing Gantt chart fully customized to the aesthetic of their project. This timeline can be shared with teammates in just a couple of clicks, and designers can keep their Gantt chart updated in real-time as work is completed to ensure everyone remains aligned.

As a designer, you know that people love to use beautiful (and functional) products. When you create a Gantt chart in Cacoo, that's exactly what you'll be creating: an aesthetically pleasing project timeline that's easy for everyone to keep up to date.