Intranet Rollout Gantt Chart
This is a practical guide to building a gantt chart for an intranet rollout project — a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies, adapted to the realities of launching a company intranet or digital workplace.
What a Gantt Chart is
A gantt chart is a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Gantt Chart. On an intranet rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an Intranet Rollout project
Intranet Rollout projects live or die on launching a company intranet or digital workplace. A well-built gantt chart gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how intranet rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Task bars by start/end date
- Dependency links
- Milestones
- Owners/resources
- Baseline overlay
Intranet Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the gantt chart to the risks that most often derail intranet rollout projects:
- Content ownership
- Adoption
- Search and information architecture
Example
On a real intranet rollout project, the gantt chart would be shaped by launching a company intranet or digital workplace. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — content ownership, adoption, search and information architecture — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.