What is a timeline?
A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order.
What are the different types of timelines?
- Text timelines, labeled as text
- Number timelines, the labels are numbers, commonly line graphs
- Interactive, clickable, zoomable
- Video timelines
What is a Gantt chart?
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule, named after its popularizer, Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed such a chart around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status.
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Milestones and goals:
Goals refer to the results an organization intends to achieve in a given time period.
Milestones are the critical and measurable accomplishments that need to be made so as to progress towards a goal.