You’ll now have an Excel bar chart that lists your tasks and dates—in reverse order. (Don’t worry; we’ll fix that in a minute.) Step 5: Transform Into a Gantt Chart ...

Here’s how to make a Gantt chart in Excel to accommodate complex agile project management within the familiar tool.

You can also choose a 3-D chart to add some aesthetic texture to the graph. These different graph options are relatively easy to create in Excel when you're looking to visually represent a data range.