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What Nextedy GANTT Does

At its core, Nextedy GANTT turns Polarion work items into a visual timeline. You see your tasks as bars on a chart, connected by dependency links, grouped by hierarchy, and colored by status. Drag a task to reschedule it. Resize it to change the duration. The Gantt handles the rest — recalculating dependent dates, respecting working calendars, and persisting changes back to Polarion. This is not a standalone tool. Nextedy GANTT operates entirely within Polarion. Your data stays in Polarion work items and plans. The Gantt reads from and writes to the same fields your team already uses. There is no separate database, no data synchronization, and no import/export step.

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Key Capabilities

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Who Uses Nextedy GANTT

Nextedy GANTT serves different roles in different ways:
  • Project managers use it for timeline planning, milestone tracking, and schedule comparison. They create baselines, monitor the critical path, and adjust schedules through drag-and-drop.
  • Team leads use the resource view to balance workload across team members, identify overallocation, and plan capacity across sprints and iterations.
  • Engineers and contributors use it to see where their tasks fit in the broader timeline, understand dependencies, and update progress directly on the chart.
  • Administrators configure the Gantt for their organization — setting up working calendars, defining field mappings, establishing default behaviors, and writing scripts for custom logic.

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A General-Purpose Scheduling Tool

Nextedy GANTT is not locked to a specific methodology. It works equally well for:
  • Waterfall projects where tasks follow a strict sequence with clear phase gates
  • Agile projects where iterations and sprints need timeline visibility alongside the backlog
  • Hybrid approaches combining fixed milestones with iterative development
  • SAFe and scaled agile where release trains, program increments, and cross-team coordination require a shared timeline view
The two built-in modes — Work Items Gantt for task-level scheduling and Plans Gantt for release and iteration planning — cover both detailed task management and high-level portfolio views.

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Highly Configurable

Almost every aspect of Nextedy GANTT can be tailored to your organization’s needs:
  • Field mapping — The Gantt reads from whichever Polarion fields you designate for start date, end date, duration, progress, and resource. You are not limited to predefined fields.
  • Presentation modes — Each work item type can appear as a task bar, a summary (project) bar, a milestone diamond, or a group header.
  • Color logic — Task colors can be driven by progress status (dynamic mode), by scripts (static mode), or by any combination of work item properties.
  • Scripting API — Item scripts run per task to customize appearance and computed values. Config scripts set global chart behavior. Page scripts provide server-side logic with full Polarion API access.
  • Working calendars — Define global holidays, per-user schedules, calendar exceptions, and team capacity multipliers.
  • Layered configuration — System-wide defaults can be overridden per-instance, allowing administrators to establish conventions while giving teams flexibility.
For a detailed explanation of the configuration system, see Configuration Layers and Precedence.

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How It Connects to Polarion

Nextedy GANTT does not have its own data store. It reads directly from Polarion work items and plans, and writes changes back to the same fields. This means:
  • No data synchronization — What you see in the Gantt is exactly what Polarion stores. There is no lag, no import step, no risk of data divergence.
  • Full traceability — Every change the Gantt makes to a work item is a standard Polarion field update, tracked in the work item’s history.
  • Permission-aware — The Gantt respects Polarion’s permission model. Users can only edit what Polarion allows them to edit.
  • Embedded experience — The Gantt appears directly in Polarion pages (LiveDocs, Wiki pages), alongside other Polarion content. Teams do not need to switch to a separate application.

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