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See what actually drives your finish date.

Set milestones, wire up task dependencies, and read your whole plan on a Gantt timeline — with the critical path highlighted automatically and a baseline that shows how far you’ve drifted. Scheduling that answers the only question that matters: what has to happen next?

Milestones

Mark what matters

Dependencies

Finish-to-start, cycle-safe

Gantt timeline

Today line + variance

Critical path

Computed for you

What's shipped

Planning that a delivery lead can trust.

Every capability below is live and runtime-verified.

Milestones

Mark the moments that matter — a beta, a go-live, a hand-off — each with a due date and an open / met / missed status, shown on the project and along the timeline.

Task dependencies

Declare finish-to-start links (“this can’t start until that finishes”). A “blocked by” and “blocks” view on every task makes the chain explicit.

Cycle protection

The dependency graph is guarded: a link that would create a loop — directly or transitively — is rejected before it’s saved.

Gantt timeline

Task bars scaled across the project’s date window, a live “today” line, and a per-bar dependency count so you read the plan at a glance.

Critical path

A full forward/backward pass computes early/late start and finish and slack, then highlights the zero-slack path in red — the tasks that actually move the finish date.

Baseline & variance

Snapshot the current plan as a baseline; the timeline then shows a ghost bar and an ahead/behind day count so slippage is visible, not hidden.

Not just pretty bars

The critical path is calculated — not guessed.

Most Gantt views just draw bars. AWRA runs the classic critical-path method over your dependency graph: a topological order, a forward pass for earliest start/finish, a backward pass for latest, then slack. Tasks with zero slack are the critical path — delay one and the whole project slips.

  • Early start / early finish from a forward pass along dependencies.
  • Late start / late finish from a backward pass from the project end.
  • Slack per task — how long it can slip without moving the finish.
  • Zero-slack tasks highlighted as the critical path on the timeline.
Critical path Zero slack
Discoverycritical
Designcritical
Buildcritical
Copywriting (parallel)has slack
Launchcritical

Illustrative. Red bars are on the zero-slack critical path.

From plan to control

Four steps to a plan you can defend.

1

Schedule

Give tasks start and due dates and set milestones.

2

Sequence

Add finish-to-start dependencies; cycles are blocked.

3

Baseline

Snapshot the plan so drift becomes measurable.

4

Track

Read the timeline, watch the critical path and variance.

Questions

The practical details.

What dependency types are supported?

Finish-to-start — the most common and clearest link. A task can be blocked by many others, and cycles (including transitive ones) are rejected before they’re created.

Do I have to fill in dates for the Gantt to work?

Bars are drawn from task start and due dates; tasks without dates simply don’t plot on the timeline. The critical-path calculation uses whatever schedule you’ve entered.

What is a baseline for?

It freezes the current plan so you can measure drift. After you set a baseline, the timeline shows a ghost bar and an ahead/behind day count per task.

Are the dependency arrows drawn on the chart?

Dependencies are shown as a count on each bar and as full “blocked by / blocks” lists on the task page; literal arrow-drawing on the chart is a visual polish item on the roadmap.

Does this need a special plan?

Planning & Gantt is part of the Projects & Tasks pillar, available on Pro and above.

Where does this sit in the roadmap?

It’s live, alongside Task Management, Agile Delivery, and Time, Budget & Flexibility — see the Projects & Tasks overview.

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