Planning & Gantt
Turn a list of tasks into a schedule you can defend: milestones, dependencies, a Gantt timeline, and an automatically computed critical path that shows what actually drives your finish date.
Open a project and choose Timeline to see the Gantt view. Task bars are scaled across the project's date window with a live "today" line, and each bar shows how many dependencies it has. Milestones appear along the timeline as fixed points to plan toward.
Milestones
Add milestones to mark the moments that matter — a beta, a go-live, a hand-off. Each has a due date and an open / met / missed status, shown on the project detail and along the timeline.
Task Dependencies
On any task, add a finish-to-start dependency — "this can't start until that finishes". The task page shows a Blocked by and Blocks view so the chain is explicit. The dependency graph is guarded: a link that would create a cycle, directly or transitively, is rejected before it is saved.
The Critical Path
AWRA runs the classic critical-path method over your dependencies — a topological order, a forward pass for earliest start/finish, a backward pass for latest, then slack per task. Tasks with zero slack form the critical path, highlighted in red on the timeline: delay one and the whole project slips.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Early start / finish | The soonest a task can start/finish given its dependencies. |
| Late start / finish | The latest it can start/finish without delaying the project. |
| Slack | How long a task can slip before it moves the finish date. |
| Critical path | The zero-slack chain that determines the finish date. |
Baseline & Variance
Use Set baseline to snapshot the current plan. The timeline then shows a ghost bar and an ahead/behind day count per task, so slippage becomes visible instead of hidden. See also Agile Delivery for an iteration-based cadence over the same tasks.
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