Kanban and Gantt online: the work and the plan, on the same data

A project is looked at in two ways. Day to day you want to see what is pending, what is under way and what is done, and move things from one status to another. When planning you want to see the calendar: which phase comes first, what overlaps and how far along things are. PjMan offers both views over the same tasks and phases: there is no separate plan to maintain and nothing to copy from one place to another.

Kanban boards: each column is a status

A Kanban board is another way of seeing the tasks (or issues) you already have in a list: each column is a status and each card a task. Changing the status is a matter of dragging the card to another column. (Kanban boards)

• Six boards. A task board and an issue board in three places: inside a project, in My work (only what is assigned to you) and in Queries (several projects at once). You get there with the List | Kanban switch next to the title of each view.
• The columns are your statuses. In a project, the task statuses of that project, in their order. Final statuses carry a marker.
• Each card sums things up. Code, title, priority, phase, due date —in red if overdue—, progress bar, hours logged against estimated, and assignees. If the item has comments, their number too.
• Move with undo. By dragging or with the card's Move to… menu, which works from the keyboard. Once dropped, a notice with Undo appears. If someone changed the card in the meantime, their change is not overwritten.
• Moving is the same as editing. It goes through the same rules and permissions as changing the status in the task form.
• Filters. By code or title, phase, person, priority, "overdue only" or "mine only"; in My work and Queries also by project.
• The task page without leaving the board. A click on a card opens its detail in a window on top of the board. In the modal, comments are one more tab. (The card in the modal)

Gantt chart: the plan at a glance

The Planning tab of each project draws a Gantt chart of its phases, sub-phases and tasks from the dates you already record. (Planning and Gantt)

• Bars per phase and per task, over a weekly calendar with a mark for today. The more intense fill of each bar is the progress.
• Collapse and expand. Each phase collapses to hide its sub-phases and tasks (up to three levels of phases).
• Details on hover. Name, dates, progress percentage and hours logged against estimated.
• No hidden gaps. Rows without dates appear in the list, without a bar, and a note says how many there are.

It is worth being clear about what it does not do: the PjMan Gantt is a read-only view. Bars cannot be dragged, no dependency arrows are drawn between tasks, and the scale is fixed, weekly. Dates are changed where they are created, in the phase or in the task, and the chart updates when you return to it. Dependencies between tasks are managed on each task's page.

When to use each view

• Kanban for work in progress: what is being done now, who has it, what is stuck.
• Gantt for the plan: how long each phase lasts, what overlaps, whether the calendar is realistic.

If you hesitate between the two, the guide Kanban or Gantt: when to use each explains it with practical criteria.

Each role sees what is theirs

All roles have boards, but each one sees a different set of cards. The owning PM sees and moves everything in their project; a consultant, on their My work board, only what is assigned to them. The Gantt is seen by the owning PM, level 1 and 2 team management and members of the whole organisation (for example a CEO), always read-only; a consultant sees their dates in My work. (Roles and access)

Try it

Create your account, create a project from a template and switch between List, Kanban and Planning. Or go through the demo with sample data first.