Gantt Chars in Powerpoint: Think-Cell

Gantt charts are good communication tools towards the project team and toward management and stakeholders. So much that senior management sometimes wrongly associate project planning and gantt chart. What I often do to communicate the project timeline and sequence to senior management and/or customers is a "one page" powerpoint showing a summarised gantt chart.

I used to do it "manually" creating bars with graph tools. I recently was introduced to a Powerpoint plug-in (Windows only) that facilitates the creation of gantt charts (and other type of charts as well): the plug-in is from Think-Cell (http://www.think-cell.com).

There is a free trial version and I recommend that you try it for yourself and see if it can help you. Below is an example.